Origin of Mass and Strong Coupling Gauge Theories (SCGT06): Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop Book

Preface     v
Workshop Organization     vii
The String in an Excited Baryon   G. 't Hooft     1
Non-Abelian Duality and Confinement: Monopoles Seventy-Five Years Later   K. Konishi     12
AdS/CFT and QCD   S.J. Brodsky   G.F. de Teramond     31
Holographic QCD & Perfection   N. Evans     46
Mesons and Baryons from String Theory   S. Sugimoto     53
Giant loops and the AdS/CFT Correspondence   G.W. Semenoff     65
Gauged Nonlinear Sigma Model in AdS[subscript 5] Space and Hadron Physics   X.-H. Wu     72
Magnetic Strings as Part of Yang-Mills Plasma   M.N. Chernodub   V.I. Zakharov     80
A Gauge-Invariant Mechanism for Quark Confinement and a New Approach to the Mass Gap Problem   K.-I. Kondo     95
Toy Model for Mixing of Two Chiral Nonets   A.H. Fariborz   R. Jora   J. Schechter     102
Dropping [rho] and A[subscript 1] Meson Masses at the Chiral Phase Transition in the Generalized Hidden Local Symmetry   M. Harada   C. Sasaki     109
On the Ground State of QCD Inside a Compact Stellar Object   R. Casalbuoni     116
Dense Hadronic Matter in HolographicQCD   K.-Y. Kim   S.-J. Sin   I. Zahed     131
Strongly Interacting Matter at RHIC   C. Nonaka     148
Chromomagnetic Instability and Gluonic Phase   M. Hashimoto     155
Progress on Chiral Symmetry Breaking in a Strong Magnetic Field   S.-Y. Wang     162
Electroweak Theory on the Lattice with Exact Gauge Invariance   Y. Kikukawa     169
Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Lattice QCD   D.K. Sinclair     184
The Chiral Limit in Lattice QCD   H. Fukaya     199
QED Corrections to Hadron and Quark Masses   Y. Namekawa   Y. Kikukawa     206
Phase Structure of NJL Model with Finite Quark Mass and QED Correction   T. Fujihara   T. Inagaki   D. Kimura     213
Phase Structure of Thermal QED Based on the Hard Thermal Loop Improved Ladder Dyson-Schwinger Equation - A "Gauge Invariant" Solution -   H. Nakkagawa   H. Yokota   K. Yoshida     220
Some Recent Results on Models of Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking   R. Shrock     227
Higgsless Models and Deconstruction   M. Tanabashi     242
Little Higgs M-theory   H.-C. Cheng     259
Weak Mixing and Rare Decays in the Littlest Higgs Model   W.A. Bardeen     271
The Effect of Topcolor Assisted Technicolor, and Other Models, on Neutrino Oscillation   M. Honda   Y. Kao   N. Okamura   A. Pronin   T. Takeuchi     278
Study of the Change from Walking to Non-Walking Behavior in a Vectorial Gauge Theory as a Function of N[subscript f]   M. Kurachi   R. Shrock     285
Dark Matter from Technicolor Theories   C. Kouvaris     292
Techni-Orientifold beyond the Standard Model   D.-K. Hong     293
One-Loop Corrections to the S and T Parameters in a Three Site Higgsless Model   S. Matsuzaki   R.S. Chivukula   E.H. Simmons   M. Tanabashi     300
Constrained Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian   Q.-S. Yan     307
Toward a Top-Mode ETC   H. Fukano   K. Yamawaki     314
Radiative Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in TeV-Scale String Models   N. Kitazawa     325
On Cyclic Universes   P.H. Frampton     331
Classical Solutions of Field Equations in Brane Worlds Models   D. Karasik   C. Sahabandu   P. Suranyi   L.C.R. Wijewardhana     338
Renormalization and Causality Violations in Classical Gravity Coupled with Quantum Matter   D. Anselmi     342
Gauge-Higgs Unification and LHC/ILC   Y. Hosotani     349
Structure of S and T Parameters in Gauge-Higgs Unification   C.S. Lim   N. Maru     365
Large Gauge Hierarchy in Gauge-Higgs Unification   K. Takenaga     372
Higgs and Top Quark Coupled with a Conformal Gauge Theory   H. Terao     379
Partially Composite Two Higgs Doublet Model   P. Ko     386
Dynamical Breakdown of Abelian Gauge Chiral Symmetry by Strong Yukawa Coupling   J. Hosek     393
Neutron-Anti-Neutron Oscillation as a Probe of B - L Symmetry   R.N. Mohapatra     400
Concluding Remarks   G. 't Hooft     412
List of Participants     421