The IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics: QNP 2006 June 5–10, 2006 Madrid, Spain

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Modern theory of nuclear forces A.D. 2006....Pages 1-6
Effective-field theory and the nuclear many-body problem....Pages 7-12
Neutrino-nucleus interactions....Pages 13-18
Hard collisions of spinning protons: Past, present and future....Pages 19-20
The neutrinoless double-beta decay: A test for new physics....Pages 21-27
Few- and many-body methods in nuclear physics....Pages 29-33
Overview of COSY....Pages 35-40
The kaon optical potential modified by Θ + Pentaquark excitation....Pages 41-46
A critical analysis on deeply bound kaonic states in nuclei and the KEK experiment....Pages 47-49
Chiral approach to antikaons in dense matter....Pages 51-53
Meson photoproduction on the nucleon with polarized photons....Pages 55-58
Recent KLOE results on hadron physics....Pages 59-63
Exclusive meson production at HERMES....Pages 65-69
Tests of the final-state radiation model at DAFNE near π + π − threshold....Pages 71-73
The study of light scalar mesons at BESII....Pages 75-78
On the coherent inelastic processes in the interaction of hadrons and γ -quanta with nuclei at ultrarelativistic energies....Pages 79-81
Scalar and axial-vector mesons....Pages 83-86
The K π and ππ S-wave amplitude from D-meson decays....Pages 87-89
Forward dispersion relations and Roy equations in ππ scattering....Pages 91-96
Strangeness conservation and pair correlations of neutral kaons with low relative momenta produced in inclusive multiparticle processes....Pages 97-101
Photoexcitation of baryon resonances on nucleons and nuclei....Pages 103-108
Large-N Weinberg-Tomozawa interaction and spin-flavor symmetry....Pages 109-112
Collective resonances in the soliton model approach to meson-baryon scattering....Pages 113-118
Resonances and the Weinberg-Tomozawa 56-baryon-35-meson interaction....Pages 119-122
Hyperon production at COSY-TOF....Pages 123-126
Decays of excited baryons in the large-N c expansion of QCD....Pages 127-130
The HERMES Recoil Detector....Pages 131-133
Search for missing baryon resonances via associated strangeness photoproduction....Pages 135-137
A SU(4) (⊗) O(3) scheme for nonstrange baryons....Pages 139-141
Strange-baryon production asymmetry in K ± N interactions....Pages 143-145
Quark Models for Excited Baryons....Pages 147-150
Measurement of pionium lifetime with the Dirac spectrometer....Pages 151-153
Aspects of strangeness −1 meson-baryon scattering....Pages 155-156
Pseudoscalar meson masses in unitarized chiral perturbation theory....Pages 157-161
Precision measurements of kaonic atoms at DAΦNE and future perspectives....Pages 163-169
Meson-baryon s-wave resonances with strangeness −3....Pages 171-173
Towards an understanding of the light scalar mesons....Pages 175-177
Deuteron radial moments for renormalized chiral potentials....Pages 179-181
Dimension-2 condensates and Polyakov Chiral Quark Models....Pages 183-188
Scalar isoscalar part of the hyperon-nucleon interaction....Pages 189-192
Resonance Form-Factors: L 8 determination at Next-to-Leading Order in 1/N C ....Pages 193-196
Some comments on calculations of the scalar radius of the pion and the chiral constant Ī 4 ....Pages 197-199
Nucleon elastic form factors....Pages 201-204
Structure functions at HERA....Pages 205-205
Analysis of the quadrupole deformation of △(1232) within an effective Lagrangian model for pion photoproduction from the nucleon....Pages 207-212
Longitudinal and transverse target-spin asymmetries associated with DVCS on the proton at HERMES....Pages 213-218
Implications of the nuclear EMC effect....Pages 219-221
The transparency of nuclei to nucleons and pions in a relativistic Glauber approximation....Pages 223-225
Nucleon form factors and the BLAST experiment....Pages 227-233
Opportunities with Drell-Yan scattering: Probing sea quarks in the nucleon and nuclei....Pages 235-237
Strange quarks in the nucleon sea....Pages 239-243
Meson cloud and nucleon strangeness: An update....Pages 245-248
Leading and higher twists in proton, neutron and deuteron unpolarized structure functions F 2 ....Pages 249-251
Measurement of the generalized polarizabilities of the proton in Virtual Compton scattering at MAMI....Pages 253-255
Electromagnetic properties of strange baryons in a relativistic quark model....Pages 257-259
Retardation effects in the rotating string model....Pages 261-264
Spin physics at COMPASS....Pages 265-267
Nucleon sigma term and quark condensate in nuclear matter....Pages 269-271
Mind the gap....Pages 273-276
Hadron spectroscopy and structure from AdS/CFT....Pages 277-282
Measurement of ΔS in the proton....Pages 283-286
The E687 cryptoexotic vector meson candidate....Pages 287-294
X(1859) Baryonium or something else?....Pages 295-301
Search for exotic baryons at HERMES....Pages 303-305
QCD Coulomb gauge approach to exotic hadrons....Pages 307-310
Composite-meson model and meson exchange currents....Pages 311-314
Unraveling the f 0 nature by connecting KLOE and BABAR data through analyticity....Pages 315-317
New hadronic states observed at BES II....Pages 319-324
Conventional view versus FINUDA claims of a deeply bound K − pp state....Pages 325-327
Excited baryons and heavy pentaquarks in large-N c QCD....Pages 329-335
Inclusive pentaquark and strange baryons production in hadron beam experiments at high energy....Pages 337-340
Λ(1405) resonance as a superposition of two states....Pages 341-343
Casimir scaling, glueballs, and hybrid gluelumps....Pages 345-349
Three-gluon glueballs in a semirelativistic potential model....Pages 351-353
Hadron spectrum and hadrons in the nuclear medium....Pages 355-358
Doubly heavy-quark baryon spectroscopy and semileptonic decay....Pages 359-361
Hadron spectroscopy at BABAR....Pages 363-365
Radial excitations of heavy-light mesons....Pages 366-370
Overview of Non-Relativistic QCD....Pages 371-373
Relativistic NJL model with light and heavy quarks....Pages 375-380
Heavy quarkonia from classical SU(3) Yang-Mills configurations....Pages 381-384
The puzzle of the D and D s mesons....Pages 385-387
Study of the semileptonic decays B → π , D → π and D → K....Pages 389-391
Heavy-quarkonium physics from effective-field theories....Pages 393-396
Superfluidity in many fermion systems: Exact renormalisation group treatment....Pages 397-402
Dimension-2 condensates, ζ-regularization and large-N c Regge models....Pages 403-405
On dynamical gluon mass generation....Pages 407-410
Aspects of quark mass generation on a torus....Pages 411-414
Constraints on the IR behaviour of gluon and ghost propagator from Ward-Slavnov-Taylor identities....Pages 415-417
Finite-temperature φ 4 theory from the 2PI effective action: Two-loop truncation....Pages 419-421
Goldstone boson counting in relativistic Systems at finite density....Pages 423-428
Nonequilibrium quasi-classical effective meson gas: Thermalization....Pages 429-433
Behavior of the topological susceptibility at finite T and μ and signs of restoration of chiral symmetries....Pages 435-437
2 + 1 flavor simulations of QCD with improved staggered quarks....Pages 439-442
Lattice QCD with a twisted mass term and a strange quark....Pages 443-446
Yukawa model on a lattice: Two-body states....Pages 447-450
WChPT analysis of twisted mass lattice data....Pages 451-454
Understanding nucleon structure using lattice simulations....Pages 455-457
Quark matter in QC 2 D....Pages 459-463
Infrared gluon and ghost propagators from lattice QCD....Pages 465-467
Hadronic decays from the lattice....Pages 469-472
Lattice QCD and nuclear physics....Pages 473-476
Exploring the details of the QCD phase diagram....Pages 477-480
Static-light mesons on a dynamical anisotropic lattice....Pages 481-483
Neutron stars as cosmic laboratories to explore hadronic matter at ultra-high densities....Pages 485-487
Low-x QCD physics from RHIC and HERA to the LHC....Pages 489-491
Phase diagram of neutron star quark matter in nonlocal chiral models....Pages 493-495
Neutral color-spin-locking phase in neutron stars....Pages 497-502
Dilepton production in pp and CC collisions with HADES....Pages 503-507
Low-mass dielectrons from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC....Pages 509-514
Phase transitions in quark matter and behaviour of physical observables in the vicinity of the critical end point....Pages 515-517
Fluctuations and correlations in the string clustering approach....Pages 519-524
Transport coefficients in Chiral Perturbation Theory....Pages 525-532
Scaling properties of fluctuation results from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC....Pages 533-536
Freeze-out of the expanding system....Pages 537-539
Fluctuations and correlations in STAR....Pages 541-545
Latest results on the hot dense partonic matter at RHIC....Pages 547-552
Scenario of instabilities driven equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma....Pages 553-555
J/Ψ production at RHIC....Pages 557-559
Out-of-equilibrium quantum field dynamics in external fields....Pages 561-563
Chiral condensate thermal evolution at finite baryon chemical potential within ChPT....Pages 565-567
Heat conductivity of a pion gas....Pages 569-572
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