jul-dec1998 contents

Obituary Note	1
Preface	5
Higgs and SUSY searches at LHC D P Roy	7
The inflationary universe - From theory to observations Varun Sahni	27
Heavy-ion collisions Sourendu Gupta	39
Symmetries of the standard model without and with a right-handed neutrino Ernest Ma	45
Neutrino masse and mixing in the light of experimental data S M Bilenky, C Giunti and Walter Grimus	51
Tevatron: Recent results and prospects at the upgrade Naba K Mondal	65
Recent results from large electron positron collider S Banerjee	77
Particle dark matter physics: An update Manuel Drees	87
Recent results from HERA Jorg Gayler	107
An introduction to explicit R-parity violation Herbi Dreiner	123
Astrophysical constraints on superlight gravitinos J A Grifols	135
Charmonium production at high-energy colliders Michael Kramer	145
Theoretical understanding of direct photon production Michel Fontannaz	157
Particle mass limits in minimal and nonminimal supersymmetrical models P N Pandita	169
Observable signals of gauge-mediated super-symmetry breaking B Mukhopadhyaya	181
Topological defects and cosmology Robert H Brandenberger	191
Low x physics and structure functions Rahul Basu	205
Resolved photon processes R M Godbole	217
Astrophysical constraints on particle properties Subhendra Mohanty	229
Quantum SUSY signatures in low and high energy processes Joan Sola	239
Physics at the linear collider Fawzi Boudjema	249
Astroparticle physics: Working group report Subhendra Mohanty and Varun Sahni	273
B Physics and collider physics: Working group report Amitava Datta and B Mukhopadhyaya	287
Quantum chromodynamics: Working group report K Sridhar	297
Beyond the standard model:Working group report Debajyoti Choudhury and Saurabh D Rindani	305
List of participants	313
Numbers 3 and 4
Review
Charges in gauge theories Robin Horan, Martin Lavelle and David McMullan	317
Research Articles
Gravitationally induced particle creation in a q-scalar field G Vinod and K Babu Joseph	357
Correct bound states of the non-linear oscillator through non-variational method: Failure of the variational method Biswanath Rath	365
String cosmology in inhomogeneous cylindrically symmetric spacetime Subenoy Charkaborty and Anusua Roy	369
Existence of multiple attractors and the nature of bifurcations in a discontinuous logistic map P R Krishnan Nair and V M Nandakumar	377
CP-violating dipole form factors of the top quark and tau lepton in scalar leptoquark models P Poulose and Saurabh D Rindani	387
Nonlinear effects of Nielsen-Olesen instability Vishnu M Bannur	405
Aspects of Planckian scattering beyond the eikonal Saurya Das and Parthasarathi Majumdar	413
LN Space-exchange effects in the s-shell hypernuclei and ⁹_^Be Mohammad Shoeb, Q N Usmani and A R Bodmer	421
Investigation of two-and three-nucleon transfer reactions in ¹²C+⁵⁶Fe Hari S Patel, B Srinivasan, B J Roy and M G Betigeri	433
On the Wigner-Witmer correlation rules for a homonuclear diatomic molecule with the like atoms in identical atomic states V P Bellary, T K Balasubramanian and B J Shetty	445
Total electron scattering cross-sections for carbon monoxide at low electron energies P Rawat, K P Subramanian and Vijay Kumar	453
Design considerations and scaling laws for high power convective cooled CW CO₂ lasers A K Nath and V S Golubev	463
Amplification of extra-ordinary mode wave in the presence of kinetic Alfven wave turbulence B K Saikia, B J Saikia, K S Goswami and Bujarbarua	481
On a class of three-dimensional corner eddies P N Shankar	489
Magnetic anomalies in Gd₂ Pd Si₃ R Mallik, E V Sampathkumaran, P L Paulose, H Sugawara and H Sato	505
Dielectric properties of electrolytic solutions V V Navarkhele, R S Agarwal and M L Kurtadikar	511
3-d Model for strain ordering in steel: I Static effects S K Ghoshal and S Dattagupta	519
3-d Model for strain ordering in steel II: Relaxation effects S K Ghoshal and S Dattagupta	539
Number 5 Special Issue on Proceedings of the Workshop on Foundations of Quantum Theory
Preface	547
Interpretation of quantum mechanics and quantum measurement
The Ithaca interpretation of qunatum mechanics N David Mermin	549
Measurement problem in quantum mechanics: Characteristics of an apparatus Deepak Kumar	567
Hindered decay of an unstable system: A quantum zeno effect Saverio Pascazio and Larry S Schulman	577
Causal quantum theory
de Broglie-Bohm formulation of qauntum mechanics, quantum chaos and breaking of time-reversal invariance F H M Faisal and U Schwengebeck	585
Maximally causal quantum mechanics S M Roy	597
Tunneling time based on the quantum diffusion process approach in multi-channel and optical potential cases Ichiro Ohba, Kentaro Imafuku and Yoshiya Yamanaka	603
Decoherence
The structure of the quantum mechanical state space and induced superselection rules Joachim Kupsch	615
Energy basis via decoherence Anu Venugopalan	625
Quantum Optics
Quantum correlations in optics R Ghosh	633
Hierarchies of non-classical states in quantum optics N Mukunda	643
Wave-particle duality: The mystery keeps unfolding Partha Ghose	651
Number 6
Spherically symmetric static solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations J Krishna Rao and M M Trivedi	663
Collapsing void in flat space Robertson-Walker universe D R Mandal and S Banerji	673
Motion of test particle around global monoples in Brans-Dicke theory Subenoy Chakraborty and Md. Farook Rahaman	689
Physical nature of the event horizon Jagannath Thakur	693
Einstein equations and the joining of discontinuous metrics Jagannath Thakur	699
Mass and decay constant of the (qq)-pion in a relativistic-potential model of independent quarks S N Jena, M R Behera and S Panda	711
T=0 versus T=1 pairing in O(36) limit of IBM-4 for heavy N=Z nuclei V K B Kota	727
Vertex function and coupling constant for the virtual decay of ⁷Li V K Sharma	733
Near-barrier fusion reactions induced by a on ¹⁹⁷Au, ¹⁹³Ir, ¹⁹¹Ir, ¹⁸⁵Re, ¹⁸¹Ta, ¹²¹Sb and ⁶⁹Ga nuclei M Ismail	743
Calculation of triple differential cross-sections of K-shell ionization of medium-heavy atoms by electrons for symmetric geometry J N Das and S Dhar	751
Possibility of weakly charged non-linear solitary dust clouds near the continuum threshold of dust population in a quasi-neutral dusty plasma S K Baishya, Joyanti Chutia, M K Kalita, G C Das and B Dwivedi	757
Subject Index	773
Author Index	777