Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IV

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME: Parallel Sessions

Note: Each parallel-session talk has been allocated 15 min, including discussion.

Session A: Vacuum Structure of QCD and Mechanism of Confinement

Conveners: Michael Creutz (Brookhaven NL), Mikhail Igorevich Polikarpov (ITEP, Moscow), Giovanni M. Prosperi (Milano)
 

Wednesday, 

July 5, 2000,

14:00 – 15:15

 Andrei Alexandru 
Vortex configurations in SO(3)xZ(2)

Michael Engelhardt 
Center vortex model for the infrared sector of Yang–Mills theory

Thomas Heinzl 
Instantons and Gribov copies in the maximally Abelian gauge

Kurt Langfeld 
Quark confinement and gluon condensation from the vortex vacuum texture

Sergei Shabanov 
Knot solitons as nonperturbative excitations in quantum Yang–Mills theory
Wednesday, 

July 5, 2000,

15:45 – 16:45

 Alexander V. Nesterenko 
Quark confinement in the analytic approach to QCD

Peter Orland 
The geometry of orbit space in the large

Martin Schaden 
Mass generation in SU(2) gauge theory in covariant (maximal) Abelian gauges

Eric S. Swanson 
Nonperturbative renormalization and the QCD vacuum
Friday, 

July 7, 2000,

14:00 – 15:15

 Oleg Borisenko 
Confinement picture in dual formulation of lattice gauge models

Francesco Di Renzo 
Renormalons on the lattice and the OPE for the plaquette: a status report

Sadataka Furui 
Colour confinement in the lattice Landau gauge QCD simulation

Norbert Ligterink
Control on Hamiltonian SU(N) lattice gauge theory

Haralambos Panagopoulos 
Lattice QCD with the overlap-Dirac operator: its Lambda parameter and one-loop renormalization of fermionic currents
Friday, 

July 7, 2000,

15:45 – 16:30

 Mohamed Chabab 
On the confinement from dilaton-gluon coupling in QCD

Valentin E. Kuzmichev 
On confinement provided by the spontaneous symmetry breaking

Roberto Scimia 
Chiral physics from QCD in the quark composites approach

Session B: Light Quarks (and Gluons)

Conveners: Martin G. Olsson (Madison), Massimo Testa (Roma), Nils A. Törnqvist (Helsinki)
 

Friday, 

July 7, 2000,

14:00 – 15:15

 Martina Brisudova 
Spectroscopy of quark-antiquark mesons and glueballs with effective Regge trajectories 

Alistair Hart
The topological susceptibility and f_\pi from lattice QCD

Alexei V. Nefediev 
Light-light and heavy-light mesons spectra from non-perturbative QCD

Marco Radici 
Electromagnetic properties of light nucleon resonances in a chiral constituent-quark model

Hagop Sazdjian 
Relationship of pionium lifetime with pion scattering lengths in generalized chiral perturbation theory
Friday, 

July 7, 2000,

15:45 – 16:30

 Constantia Alexandrou 
The infrared behaviour of the gluon propagator without Gribov ambiguities

Leonid Ya. Glozman 
Chiral quarks, large N_c and chiral perturbation theory

Adam Szczepaniak 
Nonperturbative QCD in the Coulomb gauge

Session C: Heavy Quarks (and Gluons)

Conveners: Christine T. H. Davies (Glasgow), Dieter Gromes (Heidelberg)
 

Wednesday, 

July 5, 2000,

14:00 – 15:15
 

 Thabit Barakat 
Application of the shifted-l expansion method to B and D meson leptonic decay constants in the semi-relativistic wave equation

Sara Collins 
The mass of the b quark from lattice NRQCD

Lewis Fulcher 
Phenomenology of heavy quark systems and NRQCD matching coefficients

Anthony Green 
The radial wave functions of a heavy-light meson calculated on the lattice

Dmitri Melikhov 
Weak form factors for heavy meson decays from the quark model
Wednesday, 

July 5, 2000,

15:45 – 16:45

 John H. Connell 
More tests of solving Bethe–Salpeter equations by local two-body wave equations

Franz F. Schöberl
Instantaneous Bethe–Salpeter equation: (semi-) analytical solution

Artemiy Shoulgin 
Geometrization of vacuum condensate effects in quarkonium potential model

Axel Weber 
Bloch–Wilson Hamiltonian and a generalization of the Gell-Mann–Low theorem

Session D: Deconfinement

Conveners: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld), Janos Polonyi (Strasbourg)
 

Friday, 

July 7, 2000,

16:30 – 17:15

 Samirnath Mallik 
QCD sum rules at finite temperature and density

Harald Markum 
Eigenvalues of the QCD Dirac operator at finite temperature and density

Luciano Ramello 
Evidence for deconfinement from the J/Psi suppression pattern in Pb-Pb collisions by the NA50 experiment