The Kuiper Belt and Other Debris Disks

We discuss the current knowledge of the Solar system, focusing on bodies in the outer regions, on the information they provide concerning Solar system formation, and on the possible relationships that may exist between our system and the debris disks of other stars. Beyond the domains of the Terrestrial and giant planets, the comets in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud preserve some of our most pristine materials. The Kuiper belt, in particular, is a collisional dust source and a scientific bridge to the dusty "debris disks" observed around many nearby main-sequence stars. Study of the Solar system provides a level of detail that we cannot discern in the distant disks while observations of the disks may help to set the Solar system in proper context.Comment: 50 pages, 25 Figures. To appear in conference proceedings book "Astrophysics in the Next Decade

SOME ASPECTS OF J/ψ AND ψ' HADRONIC DECAYSSLAC-LBL Mark II Collaboration

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New spectroscopy

Review lectures are presented on the properties and decay of psi(3105) and psi(3695). (JFP

Recent results on weak decays from the Mark II experiment

The MARK II Collaboration's work on several aspects of weak decays is described. Results on the nu/sub tau/ mass, and on tau, D/sup 0/ and B lifetimes are discussed. A brief description of the MARK II detector is given. (WHK

IMPACT OF STORAGE RINGS ON ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS

It is well known that new experimental discoveries often closely follow the development of new technology. There is hardly a better example of this than the close coupling between new discoveries in the frontiers of elementary particle physics and the development of the art and science of making high-energy accelerators. It is almost twenty-five years since the construction of the Bevatron made possible the discovery of the antiproton; and, since that time, knowledge and understanding of particle physics has made enormous strides in step with new developments in both the accelerator and the detector arts. An attempt is made to document how intimately many of the recent advances have been tied to the success in the development of storage rings and colliding beams