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Confinement IX Address

Facultad de Ciencias Físicas

Universidad Complutense

Av. Complutense s.n.

28040 Madrid

Research Group on Effective Theories at Complutense



Scientific Program


The conference will start at 9:00 AM on monday August 30th and wil finish at 18:30 on friday September 3rd, 2010


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.

Conveners:
M. Faber (TU Vienna), J. Greensite (San Francisco), M. Polikarpov (ITEP)

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.

Conveners:
R. Alkofer (Graz), C. Bini (U. Roma I), J. Goity (JLAB), H. Sazdjian (IPN Orsay),
H. Wittig (Mainz)

Section C: Heavy quarks

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

Conveners:
G. Bodwin (Argonne), P. Pakhlov (ITEP), J. Soto (UC Barcelona), A. Vairo (TU Munich)

Section D: Deconfinement

QCD at finite temperature; quark-gluon plasma; lattice QCD and phases of quark matter; QCD vacuum and strong fields.

Conveners: 
Y. Foka (GSI), O. Philipsen (Munster), J. Rafelski (Arizona)

Section E: QCD and new physics

Hints on the confinement/deconfinement mechanism from supersymmetric and string theories; precision calculations in QCD with respect to experiments and possible new physics; applications of nonperturbative methods in QCD and other fields.

Conveners: 
J. Coleman (SLAC), J. Edelstein (U. Santiago). A. Szczepaniak (Indiana)


Section F: Nuclear and astroparticle physics

Nuclear matter; nuclear forces; quark matter; neutron and compact stars.

Conveners: 
M. Alford (St. Louis), T. Cohen (Maryland), A. Schmitt (TU Vienna)

Poster Session   (List of accepted contributions still in preparation)

All topics covered at the conference.

Organizer: 
M. Creutz (BNL)