XIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum

8–12 сентября 2014 г., Санкт-Петербург.

Организаторы:
Санкт-петербургский государственный университет,
Санкт-петербургский государственный политехнический университет,
Национальный исследовательский центр «Курчатовский институт»,
ОИЯИ (Дубна).

Секции конференции:

• Section A: Vacuum Structure and Confinement
  Vacuum configurations (vortices, monopoles, calorons, ... ) and other lower-dimensional structures in the QCD vacuum; QCD vacuum wave functionals; eigenmode spectrum of covariant (Dirac, Laplacian) operators, connection to confinement and topology; ghost/gluon propagators and confinement criteria; new analytic approaches to confinement; the chiral magnetic effect; numerical studies of the QCD string; renormalons and power corrections.
  Focus Subsection:
  applications of strongly interacting matter and chiral matter to material science.

• Section B: Light Quarks
  Chiral and soft collinear effective theories; sum rules; lattice; Schwinger-Dyson equations; masses of light quarks; light-quark loops; phenomenology of light-hadron form factors, spectra and decays; structure functions and generalized parton distributions; exotics and glueballs; experiments.

• Section C: Heavy Quarks
  Heavy-light mesons, heavy quarkonia, heavy baryons, heavy exotics and related topics: phenomenology of spectra, decays, and production; effective theories for heavy quarks (HQET, NRQCD, pNRQCD, vNRQCD, SCET); sum rules for heavy hadrons; lattice calculations of heavy hadrons; heavy-quark masses determination; experiments.

• Section D: Deconfinement
  QCD at finite temperature; quark-gluon plasma detection and characteristics; jet quenching; transportation coefficients; lattice QCD and phases of quark matter; QCD vacuum and strong fields; heavy-ion experiments.

• Section E: QCD and New Physics
  Physics beyond the Standard Model with hadronic physics precision experimental data and precision calculations.

• Section F: Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics
  Nuclear matter; nuclear forces; quark matter; neutron and compact stars.

• Section G: Strongly Coupled Theories
  Hints on the confinement/deconfinement mechanisms from supersymmetric and string theories; strongly coupled theories beyond the Standard Model; applications of nonperturbative methods of QCD to other fields.

Рабочий язык: английский.

Крайний срок представления тезисов докладов: 25 июня 2014 г.,
Окончание регистрации: 15 августа 2014 г.

Контакты:
E-mail: confinementXI@hep.phys.spbu.ru.

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