Few body problems in physics. Proceedings of the XIIIth European Conference on Few Body Physics, Marciana Marina, Isola d'Elba, Italy, 9 - 14, 1991.

This book collects all of the invited papers and contributions to the Discussion Sessions, presented at the 13th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, and is addressed to senior and young researchers and students interested in the field of few-body problems in elementary particle and nuclear physics, as well as in atomic and molecular physics. The volume contains a survey of recent, and not yet published results on theoretical and experimental investigations of the structure of hadrons and hadronic systems, novel theoretical methods suitable for an accurate treatment of the few-body problems in different fields, present status and future developments in muon catalysed fusion. A detailed illustration of the few-body physics programs of running (MIT-Bates, CEBAF, CERN, HERA, Mainz, NIKHEF, SATURNE, Saskatchewan, SLAC , TRIUMF) and proposed (European Electron Facility Project, Indiana cooler beam) experimental facilities represents a valuable feature of the book.

Session 1 The Structure of Hadrons and Hadronic Interactions.- The Naive Quark Model and Beyond.- Algebraic Approach to Hadronic Structure.- Antiproton Reactions and Charm (With and Without Nuclei).- The Structure of Scalar and Vector Mesons.- Some Measurements for Determining Strangeness Matrix Elements in the Nucleon.- Discussion Session: The Structure of Hadrons.- A Covariant Model of Mesons That Decouples Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking.- Compact Colorless Quark-Gluon Clusters in IAE Bag Model and Intermediate Structure of SU(3) Hadrons. Pion and Nucleon Electromagnetic Form Factors.- Hyperon Structure in the Soliton Approach.- Electroproduction of Strangeness in the Nucleon.- Session 2 The Quark and Meson-Nucleon Descriptions of Few-Body Systems.- A New Partial Wave Analysis and the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction.- Uncertainties of Phase Shift Analyses and the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction.- S-D Transition in the Nucleon-Nucleon System.- New Results on the ?NN System.- Multiquark Exotics.- Multiquark Spectra in Large Harmonic Oscillator Bases.- The Quark Model, Deuteron Form Factors and Nuclear Magnetic Moments.- Deuteron Form Factors from Meson-Theoretical Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions.- Discussion Session: Electro- and Photodisintegration of the Deuteron.- to the Discussion Session on Photo- and Electrodisintegration of the Deuteron.- Deuteron Threshold Electrodisintegration.- L/T Structure of the Electrodisintegration of the Deuteron.- Deuteron Electrodisintegration with Relativistic Corrections.- Deuteron Photodisintegration at Intermediate Energy and Quark Models.- Polarization Observables in Deuteron Electrodisintegration.- Three-Nucleon Potentials Due to ? and ? Exchange.- Three-Body Force Effects in Three-Nucleon Systems. What Was Achieved by the Study of Three-Nucleon Bound States?.- Discussion Session: Break-Up and Continuum States of Few-Nucleon Systems.- Break-Up and Continuum States of Few-Nucleon Systems.- Three-Nucleon Break-Up Processes.- Photo disintegration of 4He.- NN P-Wave Effects in Polarized Deuteron Capture on Hydrogen: An Exact Faddeev Calculation.- p-d Radiative Capture with Realistic Three-Nucleon Wave Functions.- Recent Advances in Three-Nucleon Continuum Studies.- Low Energy Scattering on Two-Body Bound State in Cartesian Coordinates.- Session 3 Discussion Session: Mesomolecular Problems and Muon Catalyzed Fusion.- p-d Capture Reactions in Muonic Molecules.- Muon Catalyzed Fusion (µCF) as a Method for Studying Few Nucleon Systems.- Effect of the Nuclear d-t Resonance on Muon Sticking in µ-Catalyzed Fusion.- Muonic Molecules of Light Nuclei.- Session 4 Response of Few-Body Systems to High Energy Probes.- Theoretical Description of Nucleon Structure Functions.- Discussion Session: The Spin Structure of the Nucleon.- The Spin Muon Collaboration Experiment.- Future Experiments to Measure the Spin Structure of the Nucleon.- Measurement of the Neutron Spin Structure Function—Test of the Bjorken Sum Rule.- The Role of Sea Polarisation and Gluons in Magnetic Moments and Resonance Excitation.- Discussion Session: Present Status and Future Perspectives in the Experimental Activity.- Summary of Sessions on Experimental Facilities.- MAMI Experimental Activity.- Nuclear Physics with 1 GeV Continuous Current Electron Beams..- Few-Body Experimental Program at CEBAF.- Few-Body Physics at TRIUMF and KAON.- News from SATURNE in Few-Body Systems.- The Few-Body Experimental Activity at the Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory.- Discussion Session: Present Status and Future Perspectives in the Experimental Activity.- The Many Facets of QCD at Low and Medium Energies: The Role of the Nucleus. European Collaboration for a Continuous Wave Electron Accelerator at 15–30 GeV.- Present and Future Few-Nucleon Studies with Cooler Beams at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility.- Discussion Session: Electron Scattering by Few-Nucleon Systems.- The Scattering of Polarized Electrons from Polarized 3He: First Experiments and Implications for the Measurement of GEn.- Anomaly in the Transverse Response of 3He(e, e’p) Reaction for High Recoil Momentum.- Electromagnetic Studies of Few-Body Systems Using BLAST.- Studies of Inclusive Electron Scattering off the Lightest Nuclei.- Session 5 Theoretical Methods in Few-Body Problems.- Relativistic Approaches to the Few-Body Problem.- Front-Form Calculation of ?d ? np Reactions at High Energies.- Relativistic Two-Body Equations and Nuclear Interactions.- Discussion Session: New Approaches for Bound and Scattering States.- New Approaches for Bound and Scattering States.- New Applications of the Faddeev Approach to the Three-Body Coulomb Problem.- New Method for Solving Three-Dimensional Schrödinger Equation.- The Integrodifferential Equation Approach and Some Applications.- Study of the Bound States of Few-Nucleon Systems with Correlated Basis Functions.- Discussion Session: Few-Body Problems in Atomic and Molecular Physics: Dynamics and Reactions.- Discrete Analogs of Hyperspherical Harmonics and Their Use for the Quantum Mechanical Three-Body Problem.- Many-Body Coulomb Systems Above the Threshold for Total Break-Up.- Non-Relativistic Field Theory in Few-Body Atomic Physics.- Discussion Session: Few-Body Problems in Atomic and Molecular Physics: Bound States and Molecular Structure.- Green’s Functions for Molecules.- Bound States and Molecular Structure of Systems with Hyperons.- List of Participants.- Author Index.