Physics At The Highest Energy And Luminosity: To Understand The Origin Of Mass (the Subnuclear Series)

During July 1991. a group of 99 physicists from 57 laboratories in 27 countries met in Erice for the 29th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The countries represented were: Algeria. Argentina. Austria. Brazil. Canada. China. France. Germany. Greece. India. Ireland. Israel. Italy. New Zealand. Norway. Pakistan. Poland. Portugal. Rumania. Spain. Sweden. Switzerland. Thailand. Turkey. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. the United Kingdom. and the United States of America. The School was sponsored by the European Physical Society (EPS). the Italian Ministry of Education (MPI). the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research. the Sicilian Regional Government (ERS). and the Weizmann Institute of Science. The opening lecture of the School was given by Professor Lev Okun. A few remarks are in order. In the pre-Gorbachev era. Professor Okun's case was the most difficult: in spite of many invitations he was not allowed to come and lecture at Erice. Nowadays the hard times have nearly been forgotten. It is with pleasure that I recall here a discussion I had with my friend Lev Okun in my house during one of his rare visits to CERN. The after-dinner topic was Galileo Galilei and his great discovery; i. e . • the equality between gravitational and inertial masses - a discovery that we are celebrating now. four hundred years later. Here is a synthesis of Professor Okun's position: given a massive particle. the only quantity we should consider when talking about masses. Front Matter....Pages i-viii The Problem of Mass: From Galilei to Higgs....Pages 1-24 QCD Phenomenology: Jet Rates and Truncated Parton Cascades for Massive Hadron Production....Pages 25-48 The Standard Model and Beyond....Pages 49-88 Do Weak Interactions Become Strong at High Energy?....Pages 89-129 Geometry and Quantum Symmetries of Superstring Vacua....Pages 131-167 A Duality Between Strings and Fivebranes....Pages 169-207 Theoretical Implications of Precision Electroweak Data....Pages 209-250 Novel Neutrino Physics....Pages 251-278 A Solution to the Time Varying Solar Neutrino Problem....Pages 279-302 Searching for the Higgs Boson at A Photon-Photon Collider....Pages 303-322 Experimental Physics at the Highest Energy (In this Century!)....Pages 323-349 The SSC Project and Experimental Program....Pages 351-365 Maximizing the Luminosity of Eloisatron, a Hadron Supercollider at 100 TeV Per Beam....Pages 367-385 New Detectors For Supercolliders: LAA....Pages 387-397 Back Matter....Pages 399-421