Third Workshop on Grand Unification: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill April 15–17, 1982 (Progress in Mathematical Physics)

This workshop held at the University of North Carolina was in the series which started with meetings in the University of New Hampshire (April 1980) and the University of Michigan (April 1981). More than one hundred participants congregated in the Carolina Inn in April 1982 to discuss the status of grand unified theories and their connection to experiment. The spring foliage of Chapel Hill provided a beautiful back-drop to this Third Workshop on Grand Unification. As mentioned in the first talk herein, these three workshops have heard of indications, respectively, of neutrino oscillations, proton decay and a magnetic monopole. Since all three experimental reports remain unconfirmed, grand unifiers must wait expectantly and patiently. These proceedings preserve faithfully the ordering of the workshop talks which followed the tradition of alternation between theory and experiment. Only our introduction will segregate them. The experimental presentations mainly concerned proton decay and massive neutrinos. Four U.S. proton decay experiments were reported: the Brookhaven­ Irvine-Michigan experiment in the Morton Salt Mine at Fairport Harbor, Ohio was described by WILLIAM KROPP, and ROBERT MORSE represented the Harvard-Purdue-Wisconsin group in the Silver King Mine, Utah. The Homestake Mine, South Dakota and Soudan Mine, Minnesota, experiments were reported respectively by RICHARD STEINBERG and DAVID AYRES, the latter providing also a survey of future U.S. experiments. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Magnetic Monopoles about us....Pages 1-6 GUD: Giant Underground Track-Detector, A Project for the Gran Sasso Laboratory....Pages 7-21 Gauge Symmetry Breaking which Preserves Supersymmetry....Pages 22-29 The UCI Mobile Neutrino Oscillation Experiment....Pages 30-41 Supersymmetry at Ordinary Energy....Pages 42-55 The Kamioka Proton Decay Experiment....Pages 56-71 Geometric Hierarchy....Pages 72-88 The Homestake Tracking Spectrometer a One-Mile Deep 1400-Ton Liquid Scintillation Nucleon Decay Detector....Pages 89-104 Complex Anomaly-Free Representations for Grand Unification....Pages 105-118 Nucleon Decay Experiment at Kolar Gold Fields....Pages 119-130 From Flux Quantization to Magnetic Monopoles....Pages 131-157 Composite/Fundamental Higgs Mesons....Pages 158-173 Search for Proton Decay - The HPW....Pages 174-190 Supersymmetry, Grand Unification and Proton Decay....Pages 191-205 Neutrino Oscillation Experiments at Accelerators....Pages 206-221 Cosmological Constraints on Witten’s Hierarchy Mechanism....Pages 222-230 The Lepton Asymmetry of the Universe....Pages 231-235 Status of the Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven Nucleon Decay Search....Pages 236-248 Fractionally Charged Color Singlets....Pages 249-257 Neutrino Masses from β End-Point Measurements....Pages 258-268 First Steps towards the Measurement of Neutrino Masses in Electron Capture....Pages 269-288 Planning for the Next Generation of Proton Decay Experiments in the United States....Pages 289-304 Recent Developments of the Invisible Axion....Pages 305-321 Neutron-Antineutron Conversion Experiments....Pages 322-347 Mass of the t-Quark....Pages 348-355 The Mont-Blanc Fine-Grain Experiment on Nucleon Stability....Pages 356-358 Where is Supersymmetry Broken?....Pages 359-368 Back Matter....Pages 369-378