This volume contains the contributions of 47 leading researchers in high energy physics, both theorists and experimentalists, from all over the world. It discusses the application of quantum field theory to phenomenology in all areas of active research in particle physics. The topics covered include: the status of precision measurements at LEP, SLC, HERA, Tevatron, and other experiments; quantum-field-theoretical techniques for calculating electroweak and QCD radiative corrections; and radiative corrections and precision experiments in future colliders (Tevatron II, LHC, NLC, Muon Collider, and so on). The confrontation of all the high precision results reported by experimentalists, on one side, with the predictions of the Standard Model (SM) at the level of radiative corrections, on the other side, provides a detailed test of the SM at the quantum level. Where discrepancies appear, the book gives hints of physics beyond the SM, such as supersymmetry and effective quantum field theories.
