Fundamental Interactions in Physics

The Center for Theoretical Studies of the University of Miami has been the host of annual winter conferences whose content has expanded from the particular topic of symmetry principles in high energy physics to encompass the bases and relationships of many branches of know­ ledge. The scope of the Tenth Coral Gables Conference on Fundamental Interactions included astrophysics, atomic and molecular physics, fundamental theories of gravi­ tation, of electromagnetism, and of hadrons, gauge theories of weak and electromagnetic interactions, high energy physics, liquid helium physics, and theoretical biology. The range of topics is partially represented by the scientific talks which form this book. The tangible fruits of the conference are these papers; the intangible ones are the changes of outlook which the participants experienced and the new appreciation they gained of the basic unity of all knowledge. Historically, the early Coral Gables Conferences witnessed the introduction of the concept of the quark and the attempts to formulate a unification of the in­ ternal and space-time symmetries of the elementary particles, while later ones were the initial forums for new unified theories of interactions and for the ideas of scaling, light-cone dominance, and partons.

Section One Particle Physics.- Long Range Forces and Broken Symmetries.- Fundamental Interactions.- On SL(6,C) Gauge Invariance.- Geometry and Physics of the Elementary Particles.- Initial Experiments at NAL.- Total Absorption Detectors and their Applications to High Energy Physics.- Opening Comments on Gauge Theories.- Unified Gauge Theories of Strong, Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions.- Concerning the Formulation of Charge Independence of the Pion-Nucleon Interaction.- Theory of a One-Dimensional Relativistic Elastic Continuum and Hadronic Wave Equation.- An Approach to Hadron Physics through Asymptotic SU(3) and Chiral SU(3) × SU(3) Algebra.- The Electron and Muon as Eigensolutions in Quantum Electromechanics.- Section Two Atomic and Molecular Physics.- Slow Positron Collision in Gases.- Variational Principles, and Atomic Scattering.- Panel Discussion: Spin and Polarization Effects in Atomic Processes.- Electron-Molecule Scattering.- Panel Discussion: Electron-Molecule Collisions.- Section Three Various Topics.- X-ray Astronomy.- Helium in Small Assemblies and Heavy Nuclei.- Quantum Structural Stability and Biology.- List of Participants.