Perspectives in the Structure of Hadronic Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Electromagnetic Meson Production at Low Energies

   • Berthold H. Schoch

   Pages 1-15

3. Parity Violation in Electron Scattering

   • Robert D. McKeown

   Pages 17-35

4. Polarization in Lepton-Induced Relations

   • T. W. Donnelly

   Pages 37-68

5. Quark Structure of the Nucleon and Nucleon Resonances

   • Bernard Metsch

   Pages 69-99

6. Leptonic Production of Baryon Resonances

   • Volker D. Burkert

   Pages 101-140

7. Structure Functions of the Nucleon

   • Tjeerd J. Ketel

   Pages 141-171

8. Nuclear Filtering and Quantum Color Transparency: An Introductory Review

   • John P. Ralston

   Pages 173-211

9. Photon and Meson Production in Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

   • Herbert Löhner

   Pages 213-234

10. Near-Threshold Particle Production: A Probe of Resonance-Matter Formation in Heavy-Ion Collisions

    • Volker Metag

    Pages 235-253

11. Quark Matter and Nuclear Collisions

    • Helmut Satz

    Pages 255-258

12. The String Model of Nuclear Scattering: Theoretical Concepts

    • K. Werner

    Pages 259-286

13. Introduction to the Dual Parton Model

    • A. Capella

    Pages 287-310

14. Nucleon-Nucleon Bremsstrahlung

    • K. Nakayama

    Pages 311-347

15. Back Matter

    Pages 349-360

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The last decade has been witness to many exciting and rapid developments in the fields of Nuclear Physics and Intermediate Energy Physics, the interface between Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics. These developments involved to a large extent the sub nucleonic degrees of freedom in nuclei. In deep inelastic lepton scattering from nuclei, for example, it was observed that the quark structure of the nucleon is influenced by the nuclear medium. Also, the spin-dependent structure function of the nucleon was found to differ from sum rules based on SU(3) symmetry, a discrepancy referred to as the "spin crisis". In pion electroproduction at threshold and in the production of pions and other mesons in heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies interesting experimental results have been obtained, which triggered lively theoretical discussions. Furthermore, the search for the quark-gluon plasma phase of hadronic matter, a phase that is supposed to have existed in the first few seconds of the Big Bang, has been intensified. Not only were these developments accompanied by technical developments, such as the building of new experimental facilities, but also extensive theoretical efforts have been directed towards understanding these phenomena. These concerted efforts will hopefully lead to an understanding of the transition from the non-perturbative QCD regime to the perturbative one, in which the quark structure of nucleons is better understood. All of the aforementioned developments occur at a high pace, making it difficult to incorporate them into the courses offered to advanced students.

• Baryon
• Big Bang
• Lepton
• Meson
• Particle Physics
• Quark
• hadron

• Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, Groningen, The Netherlands

  M. N. Harakeh, O. Scholten

• NIKHEF-K, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  J. H. Koch

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