Preliminary version
5th Quark Confinement Conference

5th International Conference on

"Quark Confinement
and the Hadron Spectrum"

 10 - 14 September, 2002

The Conference is the fifth in a series whose aim is  to bring together people working in QCD and strong interaction dynamics.




Palazzo Feltrinelli
Via Castello, 3 - 25048 Gargnano (Brescia), Italy
Tel. 0039-0365-71101; Fax 0039-0365-72832
10 - 14 September, 2002

First Announcement and Call for Papers


International Advisory Board

K. Baker (Jlab/Hampton)
J. S. Ball (Salt Lake City)
G. Bodwin (Argonne)
M. Creutz (Brookhaven)
H. G. Dosch (Heidelberg)
L. Durand (Madison)
G. Ecker (Wien)
M. Faber (Wien)
L. Fulcher (Bowling Green)
H. Georgi (Harvard)
D. Gromes (Heidelberg)
H. Leutwyler (Bern)
W. Lucha (Wien)

A. Manohar (San Diego)
Y. Ne'eman (Tel Aviv)
M. Neubert (Cornell)
M. G. Olsson (Madison)
E. Predazzi (Torino)
F. Schöberl (Wien)
M. Shifman (Minnesota)
M. Testa (Roma)
H. Toki (RCNP Osaka)
N. A. Törnqvist (Helsinki)
N. Uraltsev (Milano II, St. Petersburg)
F. J. Ynduráin (Madrid)


Organizing Committee

G. Prosperi (Milano) [Chair]

M. Baker (Seattle)
D. Cocolicchio (INFN Milano)
N. Brambilla (Milano) [Scientific Secretary]

K. Maung (Hampton and JLAB)
H. Sazdjian (Orsay)

 

TOPICS

Section A: The vacuum structure of QCD and the mechanism of confinement

(I) Topological configurations, monopoles, instantons, dyons, vortex structure; flux-tube formation and QCD string; duality and strings; confinement and chiral symmetry breaking.

(II) The interface between perturbative and nonperturbative QCD; renormalons and power corrections.

Conveners: M. Faber (Vienna), M. Polikarpov (Itep), G. Schierholz (Desy/Zeuthen)

Section B: Light Quarks (and Gluonia)

Chiral effective theories; sum rules; lattice; Schwinger-Dyson equations; masses of light quarks; light-quark loops; phenomenology of light-hadron form factors, spectra and decays; exotics and glueballs; experiments.

Conveners: J. Goity (JLAB), E. Ribeiro (Lisbon), M. Testa (Roma)

Section C: Heavy Quarks (and Gluonia)

Effective theories for heavy quarks (HQET, NRQCD, pNRQCD, vNRQCD); sum rules; lattice; heavy quark masses and renormalons; phenomenology of spectra and decays; glueballs; experiments.

Conveners: G. Bodwin (Argonne), D. Gromes (Heidelberg), J. Soto (Barcelona)

Section D: Deconfinement

QCD at finite temperature; quark-gluon plasma; colour superconductivity; experiments at RHIC and CERN.

Convener: J. Rafelski (Arizona)

Section E: QCD, New Physics and Experiments

Hints on the confinement mechanism from supersymmetric and string theories. Precision calculations in QCD with respect to experiments and possible new physics. Applications of QCD nonperturbative methods into different fields.

Convener: H. Cheung (Fermilab), L. Girardello (Milano II), M. Spira (PSI)

Call for Papers

The conference will be based on invited talks, communications and posters. Those who wish to participate and/or to present contributions are kindly requested to complete the preliminary registration form. The deadline for abstract submission is 30 June 2002. The deadline for registration is 20 July 2002. All detailed information for abstract submission and registration will appear in the second bullettin.

 

Venue

The 2002 International Conference on "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum" will be held in Gargnano:
Palazzo Feltrinelli
Via Castello, 3
25084 Gargnano (Brescia)
Italy

 

Corresponding Address

5th Conference Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum
Segreteria Sezione Fisica Teorica
Dipartimento di Fisica , Università di Milano
Via G. Celoria, 16 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Fax + 39-02-58357480
e-mail: confinement5@mi.infn.it

 

The Organizing Committee of the Conference gratefully acknowledges the support of the following Institutions:

National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
Milano University



 

Previous conferences:

1994 I Quark Confinement, Como

1996 II Quark Confinement, Como

1998 III Quark Confinement TJNAF

2000 IV Quark Confinement, Wien