In the early 1960s, Gell-Mann worked on the classification of subatomic particles baryons and mesons based on symmetry families of octuplets and decuplets. Gell-Mann called such classification the Eightfold Way. The mathematical symmetry group SU(3) for such classifications was proposed independently by Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne'eman. One of the important predictions of the new classification scheme was a new particle named by Gell-Mann - the omega minus, which was discovered in 1964 by a team at Brookhaven led by Nicholas Samios (who was an invited speaker at this conference). The discovery of omega minus was a great triumph of the Eightfold Way model, and Gell-Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969. Subsequent developments have led the concept of quark as the constituents of hadrons. The quark model was independently proposed in 1964 by Gell-Mann and George Zweig (who was also an invited speaker at the conference).
The 'Must-Have' Volume on Gell-Mann's Works
Many of Gell-Mann's works have become landmarks in physics. Featuring a collection of Gell-Mann's scientific papers, Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers, edited by Harald Fritzsch of Ludwig-Maximilians University, who was also Chairman of the International Organizing Committee of this conference, is a must-have.
In fact, the publication of Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers holds meaningful significance to Fritzsch as Gell-Mann and Fritzsch were research collaborators from a long time ago. In 1971, they proposed the exactly conserved "color" quantum number and in 1972, they discussed what they later called quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interaction. In 1973, they developed the theory of strong interaction between quarks.
Many major important papers written by Gell-Mann and very prominent collaborating physicists like R P Feynman and F E Low are also collected in this volume, Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers, providing physicists with easy access to much of Gell-Mann's work. Some of the articles are concerned with his recollections of the history of elementary particle physics in the third quarter of the twentieth century.
World Scientific Authors/Editors at the Gell-Mann's Conference
C N Yang(Tsinghua University, China)
Selected Papers (1945-1980) of Chen Ning Yang (with commentary)
Braid Group, Knot Theory and Statistical Mechanics II
Selected Papers on History of Sciences by C N Yang (Chinese Publication)
C N Yang's and Fan Zeng's Talks on Beauty (Chinese publication)
C N Yang's Dawning Volume (Chinese publication)
Gerard't Hooft(Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Playing with Planets
50 Years of Yang-Mills Theory
The Creation of Quantum Chromodynamics and the Effective Energy: In Honour of A Zichichi on the Occasion of the Galvani Bicentenary Celebrations
Under the Spell of the Gauge Principle
Harald Fritzsch(Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany)
Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers
Escape from Leipzig
The Fundamental Constants: A Mystery of Physics
Elementary Particles: Building Blocks of Matter
Kerson Huang(Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA)
Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields
Lectures on Statistical Physics and Protein Folding
Quarks, Leptons and Gauge Fields (2nd Edition)
I Ching, The Oracle
Cang Jiang Ji (Chinese publication)
Stephen Adler (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, USA)
Adventures in Theoretical Physics: Selected Papers with Commentaries
Jonathan Ellis(CERN, Switzerland)
The Abdus Salam Memorial Meeting
Salamfestschrift: A Collection of Talks from the Conference on Highlights of Particle and Condensed Matter Physics
Paul Frampton(University of North Carolina, USA)
Dual Resonance Models and Superstrings
Did Time Begin? Will Time End? Maybe the Big Bang Never Occurred
Hagen Kleinert(Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets (5th Edition)
Multivalued Fields: In Condensed Matter, Electromagnetism, and Gravitation
Critical Properties of Phi4-Theories
Gauge Fields in Condensed Matter
Rabindra Mohapatra(University of Maryland, USA)
Colliders and Neutrinos: The Window into Physics beyond the Standard Model (TASI 2006)
Massive Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics (Third Edition)
Gauge Theories of Fundamental Interactions
Mikhail Shifman(University of Minnesota, USA)
Felix Berezin: Life and Death of the Mastermind of Supermathematics
You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein: Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians
At the Frontier of Particle Physics: Handbook of QCD (Volume 4)
The Supersymmetric World: The Beginnings of the Theory
The Many Faces of the Superworld: Yuri Golfand Memorial Volume
ITEP Lectures on Particle Physics and Field Theory (In 2 Volumes)
From Fields to Strings: Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics
Ian Kogan Memorial Collection (In 3 Volumes)
Instantons in Gauge Theories
John Schwarz(California Institute of Technology, USA)
Superstrings: The First 15 years of Superstring Theory
Spenta Wadia(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
The Legacy of Albert Einstein: A Collection of Essays In Celebration of the Year of Physics
A Quest for Symmetry: Selected Works of Bunji Sakita
The Large N Expansion in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Physics from Spin Systems to 2-Dimensional Gravity
Current Trends in Condensed Matter, Particle Physics and Cosmology
Gell-Mann and His Scientific Discoveries
