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EPSRC Reference:	GR/T26122/01
Title:	Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics SUSSP58 Hadron Physics
Principal Investigator:	Rosner, Professor G
Other Investigators:	Ireland, Professor D
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Department:	School of Physics and Astronomy
Organisation:	University of Glasgow
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 September 2004	Ends:	30 June 2005	Value (£):	8,610
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Nuclear Structure
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics (SUSSP) series is a well-established programme of postgraduate schools which run approximately once per year. Each school concentrates on a specific topic of current interest in physics, and attracts the best students and lecturers from around the world. The topic of the school is studied in great detail, usually in relaxed surroundings to enhance the learning experience. SUSSP 58 will tackle the field of Hadron Physics , and is being organised by the Nuclear Physics groups at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. It will be held at the University of St. Andrews from 22/8/2004 to 29/8/2004.Tremendously exciting developments have taken place in hadron physics in the last year. The most important was the discovery of the pentaquark, a totally new form of matter. This discovery has been ranked by the US Government Office of Science as being among the 10 most important results in the whole of science in 2003. At the nuclear physics energy scale, the structure of the constituents of nuclei, nucleons and mesons, still is poorly understood. We are confronted with a type of strongly interacting many-body system (hadrons) whose mass is largely determined by their relativistic quark-gluon dynamics. There is an enormously large mass gap between the nucleon and its constituents: the current quark masses account for only 2% of the mass of a nucleon. Experimentally, we know very little about correlations of quarks or gluons that should determine the long range structure of the nucleon, and the origin of the nucleon's spin is still a puzzle. It is a unique case in physics that we cannot separate out the constituents of hadrons - there are no free quarks in nature. Rather they are confined in hadrons and we do not yet have a theory that explains this properly. Until last year we thought nature only built hadrons from three quarks or quark-antiquark pairs to form colourless particles. However, there is now strong evidence for the existence of tetraquarks and pentaquarks. This is an important and rapidly developing field. A new generation of powerful medium-energy accelerators is being developed or built in Europe, Japan and the US, that will enable further exploration of these exciting new developments in our understanding of nuclear and hadronic matter.This summer school will bring young postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from North America, Europe and the countries of the GUS together with some of the leading hadron physicists from around the world. The students will acquire a broad and solid base in both hadron structure and hadron spectroscopy, and will learn about the latest developments from those who are actively driving them. Furthermore, they will have the opportunity to make contacts and form networks with their peers, something that is invaluable for any developing scientific field.
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