Few-Body Problems in Physics '98, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999 Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Autrans, France, June 1-6, 1998 Few-Body Systems Series, Vol. 10

The sixteenth European Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics has taken place from June 1 to June 6, 1998, in Autrans, a little village in the mountains, close to Grenoble. The Conference follows those organized in Peniscola (1995), Amsterdam (1993), Elba (1991), Uzhgorod (1990) ... The present one has been organized by a group of physicists working in different fields at the University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble who find in this occasion a good opportunity to join their efforts. The core of the organizing committee was nevertheless located at the Institut des Sciences Nucleaires, whose physicists, especially in the group of theoretical physics, have a long tradition in the domain. The Few Body Conference has a natural tendency to be a theoretical one - the exchange about the methods used in different fields is the common point to most participants. It also has a tendency to be a hadronic physics one - the corresponding physics community, perhaps due to the existence of experimen­ tal facilities devoted to the study of few body systems, is better organized. In preparing the scientific program, we largely relied on the advices of the Inter­ national Advisory Committee, while avoiding to follow these trends too closely.

Resolution methods for few-body problems.- Quantum Monte Carlo Methods in Few-Body Physics.- Recent applications of the stochastic variational method.- Adiabatic hyperspherical expansion and three-body halos.- Correlated hyperspherical harmonic methods and applications.- Low-energy scattering in four nucleon systems. Method of cluster reduction.- An investigation of four body bound states.- Extension of the Faddeev equation to nuclei.- Adiabaticity in Faddeev equations.- Jastrow-correlated configuration-interaction description of light nuclei.- Uniform description of the bound, quasistationary and scattering states in the Coulomb three-body systems using adiabatic hyperspherical basis.- The muonic helium atom in CFHHM.- Mathematical aspects.- The Few-body Coulombian problem.- Structure of T- and S-matrices in unphysical sheets and resonances in three-body systems.- Spectral properties of Faddeev equations in differential form.- Jost function for coupled channels.- About compactness of Faddeev integral equations for three charged particles.- Poles near the thresholds in the coupled ?N — ?N system.- Relativity.- Lorentz covariance of three-dimensional equations.- Null-plane invariance of Hamiltonian null-plane dynamics.- Entanglement of Fock-space expansion and covariance in light-front dynamics.- Ladder Bethe-Salpeter equation on the light-front.- 3D reduction of the three-fermion Bethe-Salpeter equation.- Semileptonic decays of pseudoscalar mesons in the light-front quark model.- A Poincaré covariant current operator for low energy and high energy phenomena.- The nucleon Drell-Hearn-Gerasimov sum rule within a relativistic constituent quark model.- Relativistic corrections to the electric polarizability of the neutron.- Covariant formulation of pion-nucleon scattering.- Few-body dynamics: Atomic and mesoscopic systems.- An exotic three-body system — antiprotonic helium atomcules.- Positrons in atomic physics.- Few body problems in muon catalyzed fusion.- Few nucleon dynamics in a nuclear medium.- Few-electron artificial atoms.- Universal description of the He3 system at low energy.- Three helium atoms and the scaling limit.- Antiproton-hydrogen and antihydrogen-hydrogen annihilation at sub kelvin temperatures.- Collisional survival of antiprotonic atomcules.- The fate of 7Be in the Sun. Triple collisions.- Coulomb corrections to the rate of the astrophysical reaction p + p ? d+e+ + ve.- Novel approach to the three-body Coulomb problem.- Nuclear fusion in dµ3He mesic molecule.- Theoretical studies of low energy positron collisions with hydrogen and helium.- New approach to calculations of (e,2e) reactions with light atoms.- Dynamics in few body Coulomb problems.- Threshold effects and stability limit.- Halo Nuclei.- Double Rydberg atoms.- Few-body approach to diffraction of small helium clusters by nanostructures.- The Borromean halo excitations.- Structure of atomic helium trimers.- A few-body treatment of some low energy atomic collisions involving exotic particles.- Few-body dynamics: Nuclear and particle systems.- Hadronic probes of few-nucleon system.- Searches for the H dibaryon and the pentaquark.- Few body systems and electromagnetic probes.- Deuteron electromagnetic form factors.- The Ay puzzle and the nuclear force.- Measurements of the analyzing power of elastic pd-scattering at 190 MeV.- Proton-deuteron elastic scattering for E < 0.- Nucleon-deuteron scattering with ?-isobar excitation.- On the Sagara discrepancy in the cross section minimum of elastic nucleon-deuteron scattering.- Channel selection in proton-deutron bremsstrahlung at 190 MeV.- Effects of Final State Interaction in the 3He Decay caused by muon capture.- Electron-induced two-proton knock out reaction on 3He.- Measurements of the virtual bremsstrallung in the p+d and p+p system.- Benchmark calculations for the n+t system.- Neutron-3H and proton-3He low energy scattering.- Use of realistic interactions to calculate four-nucleon scattering observables.- A study of the deuteron D-state probability in the 3He (d,p)4He reaction.- Pole structure of the 3/2+ resonance in 5He and n+? scattering observables.- Three-body Coulomb effects in the direct Coulomb breakup 8B into 7Be+p in the field of a 208Pb ion.- Pionic decay of the hypertriton.- Goldstone-boson-exchange dynamics in the constituent-quark model for baryons.- Hadronic decays of light and strange baryon resonances in the GBE constituent-quark model.- Understanding the low energy hadron spectrum in a chiral quark cluster model.- Exotic hadrons.- Describing the nucleon electromagnetic form factors at high momentum transfers.- Investigation of N-N* electromagnetic form factors within a light-front CQM.- Nucleon structure functions in a constituent quark scenario.- The strange magnetic moment of the proton in the chiral quark model.- Electromagnetic probe of nucleon strangeness.- Bloom-Gilman duality of the nucleon structure function and the elastic peak contribution.- Front-form calculation of the deutron EM form factors.- Measurements of the deuteron elastic structure function A(Q2) at the Jefferson laboratory.- The deuteron isobaric component and the neutron charge form factor.- New tensor force.- The negative-energy dependence of the n — p mixing parameter and the pion cut.- Hadron probing of the deuteron structure at short distances in deuteron breakup reactions.- First results on the tensor analyzing power Ayy in deuteron inclusive breakup at large transverse momenta of protons.- Measurement of the tensor analyzing power T20 in the fragmentation of 9 GeV tensor polarized deuterons into cumulative pions.- Polarization transfer observables in pion-deuteron elastic scattering.- Determination of quark-antiquark potentials and meson spectra.- Interactions of pion-like particles from lattice QCD.- Semi-relativistic RGM calculations of pion-pion scattering.- Momentum dependent nucleon-nucleon potentials and the off-shell dependence of the triton binding energy.- Low-momentum effective theory for nucleons using the method of unitary transformation.- N-particle effective generators of the Poincaré group derived from a field theory.- Self-similarity properties of light nuclei interactions.- The forward spectrometer for exclusive study of the Roper resonance at Saturne II accelerator (LNS, CE Saclay).- Study of Delta and Roper resonances excitation in light nuclei induced reactions.- Pionic decay of d’ dibaryon and models of quark-pion and NN interaction.- Energy-dependent partial wave analysis of the reaction ?¯pp(1S0) ?pn.- The reaction D(e,pp)e’?¯ on polarized deuteron at high proton Momenta.- Results from proton-proton bremsstrahlung measurements at 190 MeV.- Kaon photoproduction with form factors in a gauge-invariant approach.- Beam asymmetry ? in meson photoproduction at GRAAL.- Virtual Compton scattering at MAMI ?*p ? ??p?.- One, two, three, ... , infinity.- List of participants.- List of authors.