Download or read book Tours Symposium on Nuclear Physics III written by M. Arnould and published by American Inst. of Physics. This book was released on 1998-05-08 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reports on lectures delivered by invited physicists from such major laboratories as Santiago de Compostela, CERN, and La Plata. These scientists addressed their younger colleagues on the latest developments in particle physics and quantum field theory. Topics discussed include: duality in field theory and in string theory, testing the Standard Model and beyond, non-perturbative aspects of string theory, conformal field theory, baryogenesis and the electroweak phase transition, and quantum general relativity.