This book contains the proceedings of the Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium. The legacy of Breit to atomic, nuclear and particle physics is discussed vis-à-vis modern developments in these fields. Among other subjects, the present status of the Breit interaction in atomic physics and of the nucleon-nucleon interaction are reviewed. The second part of the book contains a more in-depth presentation of the status of modern nuclear physics, from relativistic heavy ion physics to nuclear structure physics and nuclear astrophysics. The recently confirmed discovery of supersymmetry in nuclei is also discussed.
Preface xiii Program of the Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium 1(4) Introductory Remarks about Gregory Breit 5(10) Vernon W. Hughes The Legacy of Gregory Breit Topics from High Precision Test of Quantum Electrodynamics 15(20) Toichiro Kinoshita Introduction 15(1) Lepton Magnetic Moment Anomaly 15(5) Relativistic Two-Body Bound States 20(8) Various Determinations of α 28(1) Concluding Remarks 29(6) Helium Fine Structure, from Breit Interaction to Precise Laser Spectroscopy 35(18) F. Minardi M. Inguscio Introduction: Helium Atom and the Fine Structure Constant α 35(1) Breits Two-Electron Theory... 35(3) ...and Developments 38(1) Experiments 39(3) The Florence Experiments 42(6) Fine Structure Constant Determinations and Perspectives 48(5) The Isotope Shift 53(26) E.W. Otten Introduction 53(1) The Discovery of the Nuclear Volume Effect in Isotope Shift 54(2) Early Theory of Isotope Shift 56(3) Survey of First Generation Results 59(6) Second Generation of IS Physics 65(3) Discussion of IS Systematics 68(5) Present Trends in Isotope Shift Measurements 73(6) Gregory Breit and the Fermion-Fermion Interaction 79(8) G.E. Brown The Breit Interaction 79(4) The Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction 83(4) Ultra-Relativistic Nuclei: A New Frontier 87(10) L. McLerran Two Fundamental Issues 87(1) The Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus 88(3) The High Density of Mesons 91(1) Experimentally Probing High Density QCD 92(1) AA Scattering 92(3) Basic Physics We Want to Study 95(2) Supersymmetry in Nuclei 97(10) F. Iachello Supersymmetry 97(1) Supersymmetry in Nuclei 98(5) Supersymmetry in Nuclei Confirmed 103(2) Implications to Other Fields 105(1) Conclusions 105(2) 100 Years of the Quantum - The Glory and the Shame 107(10) John Archibald Wheeler Banquet Addresses On Gregory Breit 117(6) McAllister Hull Remarks from a Family Member 123(2) Ralph Wyckoff Martin Klein Frontiers of Nuclear Physics Color, Spin and Flavor-Dependent Forces in Quantum Chromodynamics 125(20) R.L. Jaffe Introduction 127(1) Basics: Regularities of the Q-Q Interaction 127(3) Baryons 130(3) Mesons 133(4) Back to Basics: Spectroscopic Rules for QN 137(1) Baryons and Dibaryons 138(3) Colorspin in Quark Matter 141(4) Nuclear Structure with Stable and Radioactive Beams 145(36) R.F. Casten Introduction 145(2) Nuclear Structure 147(10) Studies with Stable Beams and Targets 157(10) The Study of Exotic Nuclei with RNBs 167(11) Conclusion 178(3) Equation of State of Nuclear Matter 181(18) Claus-Konrad Gelbke Introduction 181(1) Measuring Temperatures 182(4) Observing Radial Expansion 186(2) Measuring the Space-Time Characteristics 188(3) Observing the Effects of Pressure 191(4) Summary and Outlook 195(4) Electric Dipole Tests of Time Reversal Symmetry 199(18) Norman F. Ramsey Introduction 199(2) Neutron Beam Experiments 201(1) Trapped Neutron Experiments 202(3) Atomic and Molecular Electric Dipole Moment Experiments 205(5) Theoretical Implications 210(7) Laboratory Studies of Astrophysical Nuclear Reactions 217(10) C. Rolfs Introduction 217(1) Nuclear Astrophysical Rates 218(2) The LUNA-Project 220(2) Other Rapidly Developing Experimental Techniques 222(1) Summary 223(4) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Physics 227(24) John W. Harris Introduction 227(7) The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Experiments 234(17) Gregory Breit: July 14, 1899- September 11, 1981 251(20) McAllister Hull (Bibliographical Memoirs from the National Academy of Sciences) Introduction 251(1) Personal History 252(5) Professional History 257(12) Biographical Memoirs: Selected Bibliography 269(2) Work on the Super and the Study of Atmospheric Ignition 271(10) A Brief Reminiscence by McAllister Hull 271(3) Gregory Breits declassified report 274(7) Bibliography of Gregory Breit 281
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