Contemporary Topics in Medium Energy Physics

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Regularization and Renormalization within the Hamiltonian Formulation of QCD....Pages 3-7
Vacuum Polarization in Nucleon Structure....Pages 9-16
QCD Sum Rules and the Nucleon Structure....Pages 17-35
Evolution Equations for Nonlocal Hadron Operators....Pages 37-50
Non-Perturbative Propagators in QCD....Pages 51-62
An Extended Perturbation Theory for QCD....Pages 63-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-78
Solitonic Solutions of the Su(2) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model with Vector Mesons....Pages 79-87
Highlights of the NJL Chiral Soliton....Pages 89-107
The Strange Content of the Baryons in the Su(3)-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model....Pages 109-123
Large- N c Higher Order Weak Chiral Lagrangians for Nonleptonic and Radiative Kaon Decays....Pages 125-137
A Chirally Symmetric, Confining Quark Model....Pages 139-149
Nucleon’s Possible Quark-Diquark Structure....Pages 151-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-162
Consequences of the Heavy Quark Symmetry for Semileptonic Decays of Heavy Baryons....Pages 163-175
Heavy Quark Symmetry and Heavy-Flavor-Conserving Nonleptonic Weak Decays....Pages 177-192
Spectator and Non-Spectator Models in the B Meson Systems....Pages 193-202
The Electromagnetic Structure of Hadrons and Gauge Invariance....Pages 203-215
Meson-Meson Contributions to the Nucleon Sigma-Term and Electromagnetic form Factors....Pages 217-228
Δ Excitations in Nuclei and the Coherent Pion Decay....Pages 229-242
Recent Progress in the 3N- and 4N-Problem....Pages 243-255
Spin-Dependent Inelastic Electron Scattering from Three-Nucleon Bound States....Pages 257-269
Front Matter....Pages 161-162
Maximal-Decoupling Variational Principle and Optimal Auxiliary Hamiltonians for Nuclear Collective Motions....Pages 271-284
Front Matter....Pages 285-286
SU(N) Instantons in the Field Strength Approach to QCD....Pages 287-298
Applications of Instanton Induced Quark Forces in Hadron Spectroscopy and Nuclear Physics....Pages 299-313
Sphalerons in the Weak Interactions....Pages 315-330
Braid Group Structure in Chern-Simons Theory on a Torus....Pages 331-343
Anomaly Lagrangian with Nucleon....Pages 345-353
Back Matter....Pages 355-363