Few-Body Problems in Physics '02

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. The Conference, sponsored by the European Physical Society, took place at the lakeside resort of Bled from 8 to 14 September, 2002. This meeting was a part of the series of European Few-Body Conferences, previously held in Evora/Portugal (2000), Autrans/France (1998), Peniscola/Spain (1995), ... Our aim was to emphasise, to a larger extent than at previous Conferences, the interdisciplinarity of research fields of the Few-Body community. To pro­ mote a richer exchange of ideas, we therefore strived to avoid parallel sessions as much as possible. On the other hand, to promote the participation of young scientists who we feel will eventually shape the future of Few-Body Physics, we wished to give almost all attendees the opportunity to speak.

Quark Models and Hadronic Structure.- Baryons as Solitons in Chiral Quark Models.- QCD Confinement and the Meson Spectrum.- Properties of Light and Strange Baryons within Constituent Quark Models.- Pion Decay of Heavy-Light Mesons.- The Chances to Produce and Detect the bb?d Tetraquark at LHC.- Schwinger-Dyson Approach to Light Pseudoscalars.- Magnetic Dipole Decays of Heavy and Heavy-Light Mesons.- Relativistic Study of Mesonic Baryon Resonance Decays.- A Dressed Bag Study of the d(?, ?) 2N Reaction.- A Unified Meson-Baryon Potential.- Effects of an Electromagnetic Quark Form Factor on Meson Properties.- Baryon Electric Radii and Magnetic Moments from the GBE Constituent Quark Model.- Goldstone-Boson-Exchange Dynamics for Constituent Quarks in Light and Strange Baryons.- Baryon Magnetic Moments in a QCD String Model.- Two-Nucleon Systems and NN-Interaction.- Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction Models and Non-Locality.- Probing Few-Body Systems with Bremsstrahlung.- Dressed Dibaryon Production as a New Mechanism for Basic Nuclear Force and Meson-Exchange Currents.- The Two-Nucleon System beyond the Pion Threshold.- The Nucleon-Nucleon Problem in Quark Models.- Analyzing-Power Measurements for the 2H(n, pn)n Reaction at 187 MeV.- Very Low-Energy Hydrogen-Antihydrogen Scattering.- Deuteron Two-Body Photodisintegration in the Quark-Hadron Picture.- New Types of Meson-Exchange Currents in Few-Nucleon Systems Based on Dressed-Bag Model for NN Interaction.- Virtual Bremsstrahlung in Proton-Proton Scattering.- Three- and Four-Nucleon Systems.- 3,4He(e,e?p) Experiments in Jefferson Lab’s Hall A.- Coulomb Effects in Three- and Four-Nucleon Systems.- Testing the Nuclear Hamiltonian in Few-Nucleon Systems.- An Effective Field Theory for the Three-Body System.- Nucleon-Deuteron Scattering with ?-Isobar Excitation: Chebyshev Expansion of Two-Baryon Transition Matrix.- Three-Nucleon Bound States with Phenomenological Nonlocal Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions.- Polarization Effects of the 3/2+ Resonance on the 3He(d,p) 4He Fusion Reaction.- Indications for the Nonexistence of Three-Neutron Resonances Near the Physical Region.- Three-Nucleon Dynamics Studied via 1H(d,pp)n Breakup at 130 MeV.- Scattering of the (p - 3H) System with the Lorentz Integral Transform Method.- Calculation of the ?-Particle Ground State with the Hyperspherical Harmonic Basis.- Atomic and Molecular Processes.- Two-Electron Photoionization Cross Sections at High Energies.- Multi-Particle Break-up Near Threshold.- Effects of Breakup Thresholds in the Single-Particle Momentum Distributions of a Few-Body Continuum.- The Latest Determination of Antiproton Mass by Precision Three-Body Calculation of Antiprotonic Helium Atoms.- Interaction of Heavy Charged Particles with Atomic Hydrogen.- Configuration Space Calculations for the 16O3 Molecule.- Correlation Effects in Fluorescence Decay of Doubly Excited States in Helium.- New Developments in Computational Methods.- News in Charged-Composite Particle Scattering: Theory and Applications.- Quasilinearization Method and its Application to Physical Problems.- Atoms in Strong Magnetic Field: A Stochastic Variational Study.- Solution of Nd Breakup Scattering Problem in Configuration Space.- Improved Effective Interaction for the Hyperspherical Formalism.- Rotational States of the Helium Trimer in the Symmetry-Adapted Hyperradial-Adiabatic Approach.- Efficient Technique for Solving Few-Body Scattering Problems by the Wave-Packet Continuum Discretisation.- Microscopic Calculation of Inelastic Reaction of Six-Body Nuclear Systems.- Variational Wave Equations for Fermions Interacting via Scalar and Vector Fields.- Three-Body Bound State Calculations Without Explicit Partial Wave Decomposition.- Coulomb Fourier Transformation: Application to a Three-Body Hamiltonian with One Attractive Coulomb Interaction.- Interdisciplinary.- Small Clusters Made of Helium Atoms.- Model Study of Bremsstrahlung in Alpha Decay.- Three-Body Dynamics in One Dimension.- Borromean Molecules.- Nuclear Clustering Quest in Relativistic Multifragmentation.- Hyperon-Nucleon Interaction and Hypernuclei.- Energy Spectra of ?9 Be.- The Onset of Binding for ?? and ?? Hypernuclei.- Few-Body Aspects of Hypernuclear Physics.- Chiral Dynamics in Systems with Strangeness.- ?N-?N and ??-?N Coupling Effects in Light Hypernuclei.- Five-Body Calculation of ?5 He with Explicit ? Admixture.- Effects of ? Mixing on Nonmesonic Weak Decay of A Hypernuclei.- Baryonic Excitation and Meson Production.- Three-Body Analysis of Incoherent Photoproduction of ? Mesons on the Deuteron near Threshold.- The OOPS Program at Bates.- Pion Production at Threshold as Test of Chiral Perturbation Theory.- On the Relativistic Description of the Multichannel ?p Scattering Reactions in the Framework of the Three-Body Field-Theoretical Equations.- Axial Excitation of the ? in Chiral Quark Models.- Final State Interaction Effects in Incoherent Pion Photoproduction on the Deuteron.- Eta Production in pp Scattering.- Physics with Electro-Weak Probes.- Electromagnetic Breakup of Nuclei with A = 3 ÷ 6.- Variational Calculation of Three-Nucleon Electroweak Capture Reactions.- Extraction of the Static Magnetic Form-Factor and the Structure Function of the Neutron from Inclusive Scattering Data on Light Nuclei.- Search for Nucleon-Nucleon Correlations in the Photon-Asymmetry via the 4He(?,NN) Reaction.- Search for Three-Body Effects in the ?3 He ? ppn Reaction Measured with the CLAS Detector.- Baryon Elastic and Transition Form Factors with a Poincaré Covariant Current Operator.- Benchmark Result on Total Three-Nucleon Photodisintegration.- The 4He(?, n)3He Reaction with Full Final-State Interaction.- Photodisintegration of the Deuteron between E?=2.4 and 4.0 MeV.- Spin Structure of Few-Body Systems.- Experimental Studies of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Sum Rules.- Electron Scattering from Polarized 3He: Results of Full Faddeev Calculations.- Measurement of Spin Dependent Total Cross Sections in Neutron-Deuteron Scattering.- Few-Body Correlations in Medium.- Clusters and Condensates in Fermi Systems.- Measuring N N Correlations with 3He(e,e? pp)n.- Two-Body Correlations and the Structure of Bose-Einstein Condensates.- Study of Nuclear Matter Distributions of Halo Nuclei 6He and 8He with Elastic Proton Scattering.- Three Quark Clusters in Hot and Dense Matter.- Relativity in Few-Body Physics.- The Calculation of Form Factors in Light-Front Dynamics.- Structure and Applications of Point Form Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.- Comparison of Different Boost Transformations for the Calculation of Form Factors in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.- Locality in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.- A Relativistic Point-Form Approach to Quark-Antiquark Systems.- Poincaré Invariance, Cluster Properties, and Particle Production.- Nucleon Electromagnetic and Axial Form Factors in Point-Form Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.- Heuristic Model of Two-Quark Relativistic System with Scalar-Vector Interaction.- Three-Boson Relativistic Bound States with Zero-Range Two-Body Interaction.- Hadronic Vector-Meson Decay Widths from a Relativistic Coupled-Channel Approach.- List of participants.- Author index.