Mesons And Light Nuclei 98

This book discusses the present situation an future perspectives of the experimental as well as theoretical investigations of light nuclei and their interactions with electromagnetic and hadronic probes, mainly at intermediate energies. It includes the following areas of research: interaction of mesons with nuclei, hypernuclear physics, electroweak (interactions in nuclei) few-body systems, hadron dynamics in nuclei, and exotic atoms.

Giving emphasis on electroweak nuclear interactions the book collects more than 60 papers presented at the 5th International Symposium, Prague, September 1-6, 1991. Further topics covered are: nuclear physics with pions and antiprotons, nuclar physics with strange particles, relativistic nuclear physics, and quark degrees of freedom. They are viewed in their theoretical as well as experimental aspects.

The International Conference Mesons and Light Nuclei, organized by the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP), Rez, was held during July 2 - 7, 1995 in small north Bohemian town Straz pod Ralskem. It was the sixth in a series of meetings which took place previously at Liblice 74 and 81, Bechyne 85 and 88, and Prague 91. The conferences gained already their firm position among intermediate energy nuclear physics activities. International nuclear physics community strongly supported our intention to continue the series. This year's venue for the conference was the accommodation and social area of the DIAMO company at Straz. The goal of the meeting was to summarize the present situation and the future perspectives concerning the experimental investigations and theoreti cal descriptions of light nuclei and their interactions with electromagnetic and hadronic probes, mainly at intermediate energies. The scientific program of the conference included the following areas of research: nuclear physics with pions and antiprotons, T)-meson physics, baryonic systems with strangeness, relativis tic few-body dynamics, and electroweak nuclear interaction. Representatives from many international groups working within different experimental facili ties and with different theoretical methods were invited and asked to present their latest results and future research programs. The Straz conference, attended by 102 physicist from institutions in 22 countries, was sponsored by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research, Czech Ministry for Industry and Trade, and by SKODA PRAHA a.s. Thanks to this sponsorship we could also invite several participants and students at essentially reduced cost.

Intermediate-Energy Nuclear Physics is devoted to discussing the interaction between hadrons with nuclei, which leads to the emission of particles during an intranuclear cascade and subsequent decay of a highly excited residual nucleus. Experimental data and the methods and results of the calculation of probabilities of various processes initiated by intermediate-energy hadrons in nuclei are set forth and discussed. The potential for obtaining information on the structure and properties of nuclei by comparing experimental data with theoretical results is analyzed. New issues, such as analytic methods for the solution of kinetic equations describing the cascade, nuclear absorption of hadrons from bound states of hadronic atoms, interaction of antinucleons with nuclei, multifragmentation of highly excited residual nuclei, and polarization phenomena, are discussed in detail. The book also demonstrates hadron-nucleus interactions that bridge the gap between low-energy and heavy ions physics. It is an interesting reference for nuclear physicists and other researchers interested in the analysis of problems associated with the evolution of the early (hot) universe, neutron stars and supernovas, after-burning of radioactive waste in nuclear energy installations, and electronuclear energy breeding.

This volume of proceedings deals with a wide variety of topics OCo both in theory and in experiment OCo in particle physics, such as electroweak theory, tests of the Standard Model and beyond, heavy quark physics, nonperturbative QCD, neutrino physics, astroparticle physics, quantum gravity effects, and physics at the future accelerators."

This volume of proceedings deals with a wide variety of topics — both in theory and in experiment — in particle physics, such as electroweak theory, tests of the Standard Model and beyond, heavy quark physics, nonperturbative QCD, neutrino physics, astroparticle physics, quantum gravity effects, and physics at the future accelerators. Contents:Neutrino Physics and AstrophysicsCP Violation and Rare DecaysHadron PhysicsPhysics at Accelerators and Studies in SM and BeyondGravitation and CosmologyNew Developments in Quantum Field TheoryProblems of Intelligentsia Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy physics. Keywords:High Energy Physics;Particle Physics

Positive pion photoproduction and compton scattering at GRAAL / V. Kouznetsov for the GRAAL collaboration -- Virtual compton scattering and pion electroproduction in the nucleon resonance region / G. Laveissiere for the Jefferson Lab Hall A collaboration -- Single spin beam asymmetry measurements from single [symbol] electroproduction in the [symbol](1232) resonance region / K. Joo -- The new crystal ball experimental program / W. J. Briscoe -- Observation of [symbol]-mesic nuclei in photoreactions: Results and perspectives / G. A. Sokol, A. I. L'vov, L. N. Pavlyuchenko -- Baryon spectroscopy: Experiments at PNPI / I. Lopatin -- Measurement of the cross section asymmetry in deuteron photodisintegration by linearly polarized photons in the energy range E[symbol] = 0.8 - 1.6 GeV / A. Sirunian ... [et al.] -- Nucleon resonances in lattice QCD / F. X. Lee -- Lattice study of nucleon properties with domain wall fermions / S. Sasaki -- Quark-hadron duality: Resonances and the onset of scaling / W. Melnitchouk -- Generalized GDH sum rule and spin-dependent electroproduction in the resonance region / J. P. Chen for the Jefferson Lab E94-010 collaboration -- Double polarization measurements using the CLAS at JLab / R. C. Minehart for the CLAS collaboration -- The helicity dependent excitation spectrum of the nucleon and the GDH sum rule / A. Thomas for the GDH- and A2-collaborations -- Static magnetic moment of the [symbol](1232) / M. Kotulla for the TAPS and AS collaborations -- Meson photoproduction at GRAAL / A. D'Angelo ... [et al.] -- Maximum likelihood techniques for PWA of 2-pion photoproduction / J. P. Cummings -- [symbol] electroproduction with CLAS / J. A. Mueller -- Kaon electroproduction and [symbol] polarization observables measured with CLAS / B. Raue for the CLAS collaboration -- Recent results on kaon photoproduction at SAPHIR in the reactions [symbols] and [symbols] / K.-H. Glander for the SAPHIR collaboration -- Vector meson decay of baryon resonances / U. Mosel, M. Post -- Higher and missing resonances in [symbol] photoproduction / Y. Oh, A. I. Titov, T.-S. H. Lee -- Photoproduction of baryon resonances, first data from the CB-ELSA experiment / U. Thoma for the CB-ELSA collaboration -- Laser-electron photon project at SPring-8 / T. Nakano -- The baryon resonance program at BES / B.S. Zou for the BES collaboration -- Flavor symmetry studies with new hyperon data from the crystal ball / B. M. K. Nefkens ... [et al.] for the Crystal Ball collaboration -- Higher resonances and the example of two pion electroproduction with the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab / M. Ripani for the CLAS collaboration -- Nucleon resonances and mesons in nuclei / V. Metag -- Excitation of nucleon resonances / V. D. Burkert -- Summary of the partial wave analysis group of BRAG: Multipole analysis of a benchmark data set for pion photoproduction / R. A. Arndt ... [et al.].