With the imminent operational start of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), a range of fundamental experiments in nuclear and particle physics will come within reach. This book details the most promising ones.

With the imminent operational start of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), a range of fundamental experiments in nuclear and particle physics will come within reach. This book details the most promising ones.

The principal goals of the study were to articulate the scientific rationale and objectives of the field and then to take a long-term strategic view of U.S. nuclear science in the global context for setting future directions for the field. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter provides a long-term assessment of an outlook for nuclear physics. The first phase of the report articulates the scientific rationale and objectives of the field, while the second phase provides a global context for the field and its long-term priorities and proposes a framework for progress through 2020 and beyond. In the second phase of the study, also developing a framework for progress through 2020 and beyond, the committee carefully considered the balance between universities and government facilities in terms of research and workforce development and the role of international collaborations in leveraging future investments. Nuclear physics today is a diverse field, encompassing research that spans dimensions from a tiny fraction of the volume of the individual particles (neutrons and protons) in the atomic nucleus to the enormous scales of astrophysical objects in the cosmos. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter explains the research objectives, which include the desire not only to better understand the nature of matter interacting at the nuclear level, but also to describe the state of the universe that existed at the big bang. This report explains how the universe can now be studied in the most advanced colliding-beam accelerators, where strong forces are the dominant interactions, as well as the nature of neutrinos.

This volume contains the proceedings of the IX International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics (HYP 2006). This conference series is devoted to the progress of our knowledge about strangeness flavor in hadron and nuclear physics. Besides the traditional topics such as hadron structure, hypernuclear spectroscopy and weak decay of hypernuclei, a particular focus of this conference was on the properties of strange mesons and their binding in nuclear systems.

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Importance of strange quarks in hadrons, nuclei and dense matter / A.W. Thomas -- Overview of strangeness nuclear physics / A. Gal -- Experimental overview and challenge in strangeness nuclear physics / K. Imai -- Recent QCD results on the strange hadron systems / M. Oka -- Strangeness physics with CLAS / V.D. Burkert -- Progress and issues in the electromagnetic production of kaon on the nucleon / T. Mart -- Neutral kaon photoproduction at LNS, Tohoku University / M. Kaneta et al. for the NKS/NKS2 collaboration -- Photoproduction of the [symbol] resonance from the neutron / K.H. Hicks and D. Keller for the LEPS collaboration -- Photo- and electroproduction of kaons / P. Bydz̮ouský -- Strangeness pproduction at ELSA / V. Kleber for the CBELSA/TAB collaboration -- Low Q[symbol] kaon electroproduction / P. Markowitz and A. Acha for the JLab E94-107 and Hall A collaborations -- Results on strangeness production from HADES / A. Schmah for the HADES collaboration -- [symbol] photo-production on the deuteron at LNS, Tohoku University / T. Ishikawa -- Current status of the GO parity violation experiment carried out at Jefferson Laboratory / L. Bimbot for the GO collaboration -- Production and searches for cascade baryons with CLAS / E.S. Smith for the CLAS collaboration -- Nijmegen Baryon-Baryon interactions S = -1,-2 systems / Th. A. Rijken, M.M. Nagels and Y. Yamamoto -- Hyperon-nucleus systems in G-matrix approach / Y. Yamamoto -- [symbol]C(O[symbol]) and [symbol]O potentials derived from the SU[symbol] quark-model Baryon-Baryon interaction / Y. Fujiwara, M. Kohno and Y. Suzuki

Presents discussion of the role played by two subtle and somehow puzzling quantum numbers, the strangeness and the spin, in fundamental physics.