Bücher der Reihe Few-Body Systems

For the first time, a complete calculation of all 288 polarization observables of deuteron photodisintegration for polarized photons and an oriented deuteron target is presented for energies below +-production threshold.

This volume collects the papers given at the European Workshop "Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Hadronic Few-Body Systems" which, adhering to an invitation of the European Few-Body Physics Research Committee, was organized in Rome on October 7-11, 1986.

Thanks to the efforts of the lecturers, who did a splendid job in presenting the lectures and in preparing their lecture notes, a comprehensive insight into the hadronic interaction between nucleons and anti-nucleons was achieved.

This volume contains the written versions of lectures held at the "23. Thanks to the efforts of the lecturers it was possible to take this development into account and show relations to areas where stochastic methods have been used for a long time.

The paper will be organized as follows: In the first lecture (chapter I and II) I will give - a short introduction to e e machines and cross sections. In particular I will discuss the total cross section an- after a short summary on charm - concentrate on the third generation of auarks and leptons: the heavy lepton T and the T family.

The Boltzmann equation still forms the basis of the kinetic theory of gases and has proved fruitful not only for the classical gases Boltzmann had in mind, but als- if properly generalized - for the electron gas in a solid and the excitation gas in a superfluid.

Soluble quantum field theory models are a rare commodity. Yet, the models successfully studied in this way do DQ~ have an infinite field strength renormalization, which, at least according to perturbation theory, should appear for realistic relativistic models in four-dimensional space time.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Schrodinger equation a small symposium was organized in Vienna. With their help this volume should become a useful document on the current mathematical art in the treatment of the Schrodinger equation.

This study provides a review of the theoretical approaches employed to evaluate two-body photodisintegration of the deuteron at low and intermediate energies. It surveys all experiments concerning this process and compares experimental results with theoretical ones.

The subject of this year's conference, as of the six previous meetings, was again elementary particle physics. On the other hand, the proceBses of weak interactions, too, are not yet fully understood, especially when strong interactions intervene, as in the radiative corrections to weak decays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 . . . .

Because of the complicated subject and the scarce available literature proper introductions in the subject are tiresome. Discussions and private contacts make it possible for participants to touch quickly the peripheries of the subject in question, and new research work will be stimulated which otherwise could not be expected.

Contains invited and contributed talks presented at the 1st Asian-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, held in Tokyo, August, 1999. The papers in the volume are grouped into the following categories: Atomic and Mesoscopic Systems; Few-Body Problems in Nuclear Astrophysics; Unstable Nuclei and Nuclear Cluster Systems; and others.

Few-body resonances are in the frontiers of resonance studies. Very similar problems occur in atomic and molecular physics, nuclear physics and high-energy physics.This collection presents the state of the art of the studies of resonance states in these fields and demonstrates their common methodological aspects.

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 is apparent from the history of science, that few-body problems have an interdis ciplinary character. After quantising the hydrogen atom, they soon found that the textbook case of a three-body problem in atomic physics, the 3He-atom, did not yield to the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantisation methods.

The sixteenth European Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics has taken place from June 1 to June 6, 1998, in Autrans, a little village in the mountains, close to Grenoble.

The Workshop N* Physics and non-perturbative QeD was held at the Eu ropean Center for Theoretical Studies and Related Areas (ECT*) in Trento, Italy, during May 18-29, 1998.

Papers presented at the 20th CFIF fall workshop held in Lisbon, Portugal, in October/November 2002. The topics range from electron-nucleus scattering, meson production, relativistic effects, structure of nucleons and of light nuclei, to heavy-ion collisions.

In this Supplement we have collected the invited and contributed talks pre sented at the XVIII European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, organised by the Jozef Stefan Institute and the University of Ljubljana, Slove nia.