The proceedings reflect the recent experimental and theoretical progress in pion nuclear physics in topics like pionic atoms, pion absorption, charge exchange, (π, 2π), and others involving pions in nuclei using different probes, as electron photons or heavy ions. Related topics on chiral symmetry, low energy πN and (γ, π⁰) and quark degrees of freedom are also addressed.
Contents:
- Pion Absorption Charge Exchange and Hadron Dynamics (M B Johnson)
- Exchange Currents in DCX and the Role of Chiral Symmetry (D S Koltun)
- Pion Induced Single Pion Production in Nuclei (E Piasetzky)
- Pions in Pursuit of the Exotic (K K Seth)
- High-Energy Pion Elastic, Single and Double Charge Exchange Scattering (D J Ernst)
- Pion-Induced Scattering Above the 3,3 Resonance (D Strottman)
- An Improved Parametrization of the Optical Potential for Pionic Atoms (J Konijn)
- Experimental Searches for Deeply Bound Pionic Atoms (R S Hayano)
- Signatures in Pion Absorption (H J Weyer)
- Pion Absorption — The Challenge of the Observables (D Ashery)
- Photoproduction of Charged and Neutral Pions in Nuclei in the Δ-Resonance Region (J Arends)
- Measurement of the Total Absorption Cross Section of Circularly Polarized Photons by Longitudinally Polarized Protons (G Tamas)
- Low Energy Pion-Nucleon Scattering and the Nucleon Sigma Term (T Ericson)
- The Pion and Hadron Structure (V Vento)
- The Pion at Finite Temperature and Density (G E Brown)
- and other papers
Readership: Nuclear and particle physicists.
