Quark confinement and the hadron spectrum V : Gargnano, Italy, 10-14 September 2002 / edited by Nora Brambilla, Giovanni M. Prosperi.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Plenary session presentations. Vortices, confinement and Higgs fields / R. Bertle and M. Faber. Yang-Mills theory in terms of gauge invariant dual variables / D. Diakonov. Experimental overview of heavy-ion physics at the SPS and RHIC / P. Foka. Hadronic signature of quark-gluon plasma / J. Rafelski and J. Letessier. Friendships, flux tubes and the physics of strong QCD (Nathan Isgur memorial lecture) / J. Paton. Recent results on quarkonium production and decay / G.T. Bodurin. Heavy quarkonium inclusive decays: theoretical status and perspectives / A. Vairo. Confinement and deconfinement in 2 + 1 dimensions / A. Kovner. Dalitz-plot analysis in the charm sector / S. Malvezzi. Light exotic mesons / C. Amsler. Experimental determination of the (QQ) condensate / G. Colangelo. Experimental investigation of [symbol][symbol][symbol][symbol] atoms / V. Yazkou. Effective interactions are effective / B.R. Holstein. Quark masses and low-energy constants from lattice QCD / H. Wittig. Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion, Zwanziger-Gribov horizon condition, and infrared critical exponents in Landau gauge QCD / R. Alkofer [and others]. Aspects of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking / C.D. Roberts. Monopole dynamics in QCD / T. Suzuki. Lattice QCD, gauge fixing and the transition to the perturbative regime / A.G. Williams. Topology of center vortices / H. Reinhardt -- QCD vacuum round table. Section A: round table / G. Schierholz [and others]. From QCD to dual superconductivity to effective string theory / M. Baker. Section A: summary talk / M.I. Polikarpou. Section B: summary talk / J.E.F.T. Ribeiro. Section C: summary talk. Heavy quarks / J. Soto. Section E: summary talk. The music of the hadron / Y. Ne'eman.

Poster section -- oganizer: M. Creutz. Analytical determination of the scaling critical exponents for the QCD deconfinement phase transition / M. Ladrem ... [et al.]. Finite size effects and critical behavior of the temperature-driven and density-driven deconfinement phase transition / M. Ladrem ... [et al.]. The baryon flux tube structure in N [symbol] = 2 QCD at nonzero temperature / Y. Mori ... [et al.]. Semianalytical bounds on spinless-salpeter energy levels / R.L. Hall ... [et al.]. Analytic proof of the Weinberg theorem for off mass shell and composite pions / P. Bicudo. The p and [symbol] mesons from thermal pion scattering in chiral perturbation theory / J.R. Peláez ... [et al.]. The chiral condensate thermal evolution within SU(2) and SU(3) chiral perturbation theory / J.R. Peláez. Topology and the overlap / M. Creutz. Theoretical calculation of the proton form factors / M.Y. Hussein. The transition to strange matter in the string-flip model / G. Toledo Sánchez and J. Piekarewicz. Orbitally excited D and B mesons in the approach of the QCD string with quarks at the ends / Yu. S. Kalashnikova and A.V. Nefediev. String breaking and monopoles in the 3D Abelian Higgs model / M.N. Chernodub ... [et al.].

This book provides an update on our understanding of strong interaction, with theoretical and experimental highlights included. It is divided into five sections. The first section is devoted to the investigations into and the latest results on the mechanism of quark confinement. The second and third sections focus respectively on light and heavy quarks (effective field theories, Schwinger-Dyson approach and lattice QCD results). The fourth section deals with the deconfinement mechanism and quark-gluon plasma formation signals. The last section presents highlights of experiments, new physics beyond QCD, and nonperturbative approaches in other theories (strings and SUSY) that may be useful in QCD.

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