The IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics : QNP 2006

June 5-10, 2006, Madrid, Spain

Nuclear Structure and Interactions.- Modern theory of nuclear forces A.D. 2006.- Effective-field theory and the nuclear many-body problem.- Neutrino-nucleus interactions.- Extraction of G M n from inclusive electron scattering on D, 4He.- Hard collisions of spinning protons: Past, present and future.- The neutrinoless double-beta decay: A test for new physics.- Few- and many-body methods in nuclear physics.- Overview of COSY.- The kaon optical potential modified by ?+ Pentaquark excitation.- A critical analysis on deeply bound kaonic states in nuclei and the KEK experiment.- Chiral approach to antikaons in dense matter.- Meson Physics.- Meson photoproduction on the nucleon with polarized photons.- Recent KLOE results on hadron physics.- Exclusive meson production at HERMES.- The ? ? K0 decay.- Tests of the final-state radiation model at DAFNE near ?+?? threshold.- The study of light scalar mesons at BESII.- On the coherent inelastic processes in the interaction of hadrons and ?-quanta with nuclei at ultrarelativistic energies.- Scalar and axial-vector mesons.- The K? and ?? S-wave amplitude from D-meson decays.- Forward dispersion relations and Roy equations in ?? scattering.- Strangeness conservation and pair correlations of neutral kaons with low relative momenta produced in inclusive multiparticle processes.- Baryon Physics.- Photoexcitation of baryon resonances on nucleons and nuclei.- Large-N Weinberg-Tomozawa interaction and spin-flavor symmetry.- Collective resonances in the soliton model approach to meson-baryon scattering.- Resonances and the Weinberg-Tomozawa 56-baryon-35-meson interaction.- Hyperon production at COSY-TOF.- Decays of excited baryons in the large-Nc expansion of QCD.- The HERMES Recoil Detector.- Search for missing baryon resonances via associated strangeness photoproduction.- A SU(4) (?) O(3) scheme for nonstrange baryons.- Strange-baryon production asymmetry in K±N interactions.- Quark Models for Excited Baryons.- Chrial Dynamics.- Measurement of pionium lifetime with the Dirac spectrometer.- Aspects of strangeness ?1 meson-baryon scattering.- Pseudoscalar meson masses in unitarized chiral perturbation theory.- Precision measurements of kaonic atoms at DA?NE and future perspectives.- Meson-baryon s-wave resonances with strangeness ?3.- Towards an understanding of the light scalar mesons.- Deuteron radial moments for renormalized chiral potentials.- Dimension-2 condensates and Polyakov Chiral Quark Models.- Scalar isoscalar part of the hyperon-nucleon interaction.- Resonance Form-Factors: L8 determination at Next-to-Leading Order in 1/NC.- Some comments on calculations of the scalar radius of the pion and the chiral constant ?4.- Hadron Structure.- Nucleon elastic form factors.- Structure functions at HERA.- Analysis of the quadrupole deformation of ?(1232) within an effective Lagrangian model for pion photoproduction from the nucleon.- Longitudinal and transverse target-spin asymmetries associated with DVCS on the proton at HERMES.- Implications of the nuclear EMC effect.- The transparency of nuclei to nucleons and pions in a relativistic Glauber approximation.- Nucleon form factors and the BLAST experiment.- Opportunities with Drell-Yan scattering: Probing sea quarks in the nucleon and nuclei.- Strange quarks in the nucleon sea.- Meson cloud and nucleon strangeness: An update.- Leading and higher twists in proton, neutron and deuteron unpolarized structure functions F2.- Spin structure function of deuteron g 1 d from COMPASS.- Measurement of the generalized polarizabilities of the proton in Virtual Compton scattering at MAMI.- Electromagnetic properties of strange baryons in a relativistic quark model.- Retardation effects in the rotating string model.- Spin physics at COMPASS.- Nucleon sigma term and quark condensate in nuclear matter.- Mind the gap.- Hadron spectroscopy and structure from AdS/CFT.- Measurement of ?S in the proton.- Spectroscopy and Exotica.- The E687 cryptoexotic vector meson candidate.- X(1859) Baryonium or something else?.- Search for exotic baryons at HERMES.- QCD Coulomb gauge approach to exotic hadrons.- Composite-meson model and meson exchange currents.- Unraveling the f0 nature by connecting KLOE and BABAR data through analyticity.- New hadronic states observed at BES II.- D s0 + (2317) as an iso-triplet four-quark meson.- New physics and technical challenges of ANDA.- Conventional view versus FINUDA claims of a deeply bound K?pp state.- Excited baryons and heavy pentaquarks in large-Nc QCD.- Inclusive pentaquark and strange baryons production in hadron beam experiments at high energy.- ?(1405) resonance as a superposition of two states.- Casimir scaling, glueballs, and hybrid gluelumps.- Three-gluon glueballs in a semirelativistic potential model.- Hadron spectrum and hadrons in the nuclear medium.- Heavy-Quarks Physics.- Doubly heavy-quark baryon spectroscopy and semileptonic decay.- Hadron spectroscopy at BABAR.- Multichannel calculation of the very narrow D s0 * (2317) and the very broad D 0 * (2300–2400).- Radial excitations of heavy-light mesons.- Overview of Non-Relativistic QCD.- Relativistic NJL model with light and heavy quarks.- Study of semileptonic and nonleptonic decays of the B c ? meson.- Heavy quarkonia from classical SU(3) Yang-Mills configurations.- The puzzle of the D and Ds mesons.- Study of the semileptonic decays B ? ?, D ? ? and D ? K.- Heavy-quarkonium physics from effective-field theories.- Field Theory.- Superfluidity in many fermion systems: Exact renormalisation group treatment.- Dimension-2 condensates, ?-regularization and large-Nc Regge models.- On dynamical gluon mass generation.- Aspects of quark mass generation on a torus.- Constraints on the IR behaviour of gluon and ghost propagator from Ward-Slavnov-Taylor identities.- Finite-temperature ? 4 theory from the 2PI effective action: Two-loop truncation.- Goldstone boson counting in relativistic Systems at finite density.- Nonequilibrium quasi-classical effective meson gas: Thermalization.- Behavior of the topological susceptibility at finite T and ? and signs of restoration of chiral symmetries.- Field Theory on the Lattice.- 2 + 1 flavor simulations of QCD with improved staggered quarks.- Lattice QCD with a twisted mass term and a strange quark.- Yukawa model on a lattice: Two-body states.- WChPT analysis of twisted mass lattice data.- Understanding nucleon structure using lattice simulations.- Quark matter in QC2D.- Infrared gluon and ghost propagators from lattice QCD.- Hadronic decays from the lattice.- Lattice QCD and nuclear physics.- Exploring the details of the QCD phase diagram.- Static-light mesons on a dynamical anisotropic lattice.- Matter under Extreme Conditions.- Neutron stars as cosmic laboratories to explore hadronic matter at ultra-high densities.- Low-x QCD physics from RHIC and HERA to the LHC.- Phase diagram of neutron star quark matter in nonlocal chiral models.- Neutral color-spin-locking phase in neutron stars.- Dilepton production in pp and CC collisions with HADES.- Low-mass dielectrons from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC.- Phase transitions in quark matter and behaviour of physical observables in the vicinity of the critical end point.- Fluctuations and correlations in the string clustering approach.- Transport coefficients in Chiral Perturbation Theory.- Scaling properties of fluctuation results from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC.- Freeze-out of the expanding system.- Q modes in the Quark-Gluon Plasma.- Fluctuations and correlations in STAR.- Latest results on the hot dense partonic matter at RHIC.- Scenario of instabilities driven equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma.- J/? production at RHIC.- Out-of-equilibrium quantum field dynamics in external fields.- Chiral condensate thermal evolution at finite baryon chemical potential within ChPT.- Heat conductivity of a pion gas.