Mesons and Light Nuclei '95, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, Stráž pod Ralskem, July 3-7, 1995 Few-Body Systems Series, Vol. 9

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.

Kaon, Pion, and Photon Interactions with the Nucleus Below 1 GeV.- Pion-Nucleus Total and Reaction Cross Sections.- Pion Absorption in Helium with the LADS Detector.- Meson Exchange Contribution to K+-Nucleus Scattering.- Searching for the H-Dibaryon at Brookhaven.- Elastic Scattering of K+ from Light Nuclei.- K+ Scattering on Light N = Z Nuclei.- Experiments with Polarized 3He and Muonic 3He: Pion Elastic Scattering and Muon Capture.- Elastic and Inelastic Pion Scattering on 3H and 3He.- Pion Absorption on Few—Nucleon Systems.- Strong Interaction Physics from Hadronic Atoms.- Nuclear Neutron Haloes as Seen by Antiprotons.- Nuclear Structure Effects in Light Pionic Atoms.- Strange Baryonic Systems.- ? Hypernuclear States.- S = ?2 Nuclear Phenomena and ?N Interaction.- Properties of the Hypertriton.- ?-Hypernuclear Production by K? Capture in Flight.- Hyperfragment Production in Annihilation of Antiprotons Stopping in Nuclei.- The Hypernuclei with Neutron Halo.- Pion-Nucleon Partial-Wave Analysis and the N N? Coupling Constant.- The ?N N Dynamics on N N — N N, pp — ?d, ?d — ?d, and pp – ?N N below 1 GeV.- Pion Double Charge Exchange in p-shell Nuclei.- What is so Special About Eta-Meson Physics?.- ?N S-wave Scattering Length, Limitations of the Single Resonance Model, Predictions of the Three Coupled Channel, Multiresonance and Unitary Model.- Photo- and Electroproduction of Eta Mesons on Nucleons and Nuclei.- Fully Relativistic Calculation of the ?d ? ?N N Process, With the Final State Interaction Included.- Photoproduction of Eta Mesons on Deuterium from Threshold to 1. 2 GeV.- On the possibility of an ?-meson light nucleus bound state formation.- Description of Low-Energy Pion Double Charge Exchange Reactions.- Inclusive Pion Double Charge Exchange on Light Nuclei above 0. 5 GeV.- Study of Reactions ??p ? ?n and ??p ? ?0n on Pion Beams of the PNPI Synchrocyclotron.- Theoretical Differential Cross Sections of ?d Scattering for Pion Momenta up to 2 GeV/c.- Experimental Results on Pontecorva Reactions with Strangeness.- Some Multiple Scattering Effects in Antinucleon Annihilation on Nuclei.- Latest achievements in dynamic calculations for light nuclei.- Deuteron Compton Scattering.- Electromagnetic Structure of Mesons in a Light-Front Constituent Quark Model.- Structure of ? Hypernuclei with Neutron Halo.- Double-Strangeness Hypernuclei in the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock Approach.- Production of Double-? and Twin-? Hypernuclei in the ??-Atomic Capture Reaction.- Subthreshold K+ Production on Nuclei by ?+ Mesons.- Relativistic Versus Nonrelativistic ?N Correlations in the Weak Decay of Hypernuclei.- Two-body Mechanisms in Pion Scattering and Pion Photoproduction on the Trinucleon.- Extended R. G. M. Calculations of Pion-Pion Scattering.- New experimental results on the ?? interaction in nuclear matter.- Hidden Chiral Symmetry and Low-Energy Theorem.- High Resolution Measurements of (?, N) at Intermediate Energy. How Important are Meson Exchange Current Effects ?.- A zero-degree spectrometer in CELSIUS and the d(d, 2?)4He reaction.- Physics Program and Experimental Equipment at CEBAF.- Results from the Real Photon Programme at MAMI.- Polarized Photon Scattering from 4He.- Strangeness Electro-and Photo-Production at CEBAF.- Kaon Photo- and Electroproduction on Nucleons.- Strangeness Studies off Proton and Nuclei in CEBAF Hall A.- Electroproductions of Light ?- and. ?-Hypernuclei.- Achievements and Challenges in 3N- and 4N-Systems.- S-Matrix Parameters for Elastic Neutron-Deuteron Scattering above the Breakup Threshold.- Variational Calculations for Continuum States in Few-Nucleon Systems.- Off-Shell NN Potential and Nuclear Binding.- Electron Scattering from the Deuteron Using the Gross Equation.- Elastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering with New Nucleon-Nucleon Potentials and Nucleon Form Factors.- Elastic ?d Scattering.- Isospin Violation in Low-energy Hadronic Physics.- Radiative Pion Photoproduction from the Proton and. ?+ Meson Polarizabilities.- A Model for the ?N ? ??N Reaction.- The Polarized Structure Function of the Nucleon in the Constituent Quark Model.- Nucleon-Nucleon Correlations and Multiquark Cluster Effects in Deep Inelastic Electron Scattering off Few-Nucleon Systems at x > 1.- Spin Effects in Low-Energy Pion Scattering on 3He.- The Weak Decay of Hypernuclei.- ? Decay Induced by Two Nucleons.- Hypernuclear Structure and Hyperon-Nucleon Interactions.- Conference Summary.- List of Participants.- Author Index.