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Hadrons and Nuclei

The European Physical Journal A

Volume 31 / No 4 (March 2007)

QNP 2006

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Editorial

Preface p. IX

Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada and Vicente Vento

Published online: 30 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2007-10014-6

Modern theory of nuclear forces A.D. 2006 p. 397

U. -G. Meißner

Published online: 16 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10170-1

Effective-field theory and the nuclear many-body problem p. 403

T. Schäfer

Published online: 12 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10261-y

Neutrino-nucleus interactions p. 409

T. W. Donnelly

Published online: 16 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10163-0

Extraction of G_M ⁿ from inclusive electron scattering on D, ⁴He p. 415

A. S. Rinat, M. F. Taragin and M. Viviani

Published online: 22 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10293-3

Hard collisions of spinning protons: Past, present and future p. 417

A. D. Krisch

Published online: 21 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10232-4

The neutrinoless double-beta decay: A test for new physics p. 424

A. Faessler

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10189-2

Few- and many-body methods in nuclear physics p. 429

M. Viviani

Published online: 15 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10263-9

Overview of COSY p. 435

W. Eyrich

Published online: 27 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10262-x

Meson photoproduction on the nucleon with polarized photons p. 441

The GRAAL Collaboration, A. D'Angelo, O. Bartalini, V. Bellini, J. P. Bocquet, P. Calvat, M. Capogni, L. Casano, M. Castoldi, J. -P. Didelez et al. (32 more)

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10272-8

Recent KLOE results on hadron physics p. 446

C. Bini

Published online: 19 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10183-8

Exclusive meson production at HERMES p. 451

M. Tytgat

Published online: 21 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10195-4

The Φ→K⁰¯γ decay p. 454

R. Escribano

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10291-5

Tests of the final-state radiation model at DAFNE near π ⁺ π ^- threshold p. 458

G. Pancheri, O. Shekhovtsova and G. Venanzoni

Published online: 06 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10220-8

The study of light scalar mesons at BESII p. 461

Liao Hongbo

Published online: 28 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10205-7

On the coherent inelastic processes in the interaction of hadrons and γ-quanta with nuclei at ultrarelativistic energies p. 465

V. L. Lyuboshitz and V. V. Lyuboshitz

Published online: 23 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2007-10004-8

Scalar and axial-vector mesons p. 468

E. van Beveren and G. Rupp

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10186-5

The Kπ and ππ S-wave amplitude from D-meson decays p. 474

A. C. dos Reis

Published online: 09 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10249-7

Forward dispersion relations and Roy equations in ππ scattering p. 479

R. Kamiński, J. R. Peláez and F. J. Ynduráin

Published online: 27 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2007-10006-6

Photoexcitation of baryon resonances on nucleons and nuclei - An example: recent results from photoproduction of η-mesons p. 485

B. Krusche, I. Jaegle and T. Mertens

Published online: 01 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10225-3

Large- N Weinberg-Tomozawa interaction and spin-flavor symmetry p. 491

C. Garcıa-Recio, J. Nieves and L. L. Salcedo

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10273-7

Collective resonances in the soliton model approach to meson-baryon scattering p. 495

H. Weigel

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10191-8

Resonances and the Weinberg-Tomozawa 56-baryon-35-meson interaction p. 499

C. Garcıa-Recio, J. Nieves and L. L. Salcedo

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10203-9

Hyperon production at COSY-TOF p. 503

W. Schroeder

Published online: 23 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10276-4

Decays of excited baryons in the large- N_c expansion of QCD p. 506

J. L. Goity and N. N. Scoccola

Published online: 16 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10180-y

The HERMES Recoil Detector p. 509

W. Yu

Published online: 21 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10248-8

Search for missing baryon resonances via associated strangeness photoproduction p. 512

B. Saghai, J. -C. David, B. Juliá-Dıaz and T. -S. H. Lee

Published online: 01 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10226-2

A SU(4)⊗O(3) scheme for nonstrange baryons p. 515

P. González, J. Vijande, A. Valcarce and H. Garcilazo

Published online: 26 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10190-9

Strange-baryon production asymmetry in K^±N interactions p. 519

G. H. Arakelyan, C. Merino and Yu. M. Shabelski

Published online: 21 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10282-6

Measurement of pionium lifetime with the Dirac spectrometer p. 522

B. Adeva, A. Romero Vidal and O. Vázquez Doce

Published online: 05 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10230-6

Aspects of strangeness -1 meson-baryon scattering p. 527

J. A. Oller, J. Prades and M. Verbeni

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10185-6

Pseudoscalar meson masses in unitarized chiral perturbation theory p. 534

J. A. Oller and L. Roca

Published online: 22 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10292-4

Precision measurements of kaonic atoms at DA ΦNE and future perspectives p. 537

C. Curceanu (Petrascu), M. Bazzi, G. Beer, L. Bombelli, A. M. Bragadireanu, M. Cargnelli, M. Catitti, C. Fiorini, T. Frizzi, F. Ghio et al. (18 more)

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10197-2

Meson-baryon s-wave resonances with strangeness -3 p. 540

C. Garcıa-Recio, J. Nieves and L. L. Salcedo

Published online: 14 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10241-3

Towards an understanding of the light scalar mesons p. 543

C. Hanhart

Published online: 23 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10193-6

Deuteron radial moments for renormalized chiral potentials p. 549

E. Ruiz Arriola and M. Pavon Valderrama

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10294-2

Dimension-2 condensates and Polyakov Chiral Quark Models p. 553

E. Megıas, E. Ruiz Arriola and L. L. Salcedo

Published online: 01 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10218-2

Scalar isoscalar part of the hyperon-nucleon interaction p. 557

K. Sasaki, E. Oset and M. J. Vicente Vacas

Published online: 05 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10215-5

Nucleon elastic form factors - Current status of the experimental effort p. 560

D. Day

Published online: 06 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10239-9

Structure functions at HERA p. 566

D. H. Saxon

Published online: 16 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10178-5

Analysis of the quadrupole deformation of Δ(1232) within an effective Lagrangian model for pion photoproduction from the nucleon p. 572

C. Fernández-Ramırez, E. Moya de Guerra and J. M. Udıas

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10198-1

Longitudinal and transverse target-spin asymmetries associated with DVCS on the proton at HERMES p. 575

M. Kopytin

Published online: 14 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10231-5

Implications of the nuclear EMC effect p. 578

G. A. Miller

Published online: 16 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10258-6

The transparency of nuclei to nucleons and pions in a relativistic Glauber approximation p. 585

J. Ryckebusch, W. Cosyn, B. Van Overmeire and C. Martınez

Published online: 08 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10227-1

Nucleon form factors and the BLAST experiment p. 588

R. Alarcon and the BLAST Collaboration

Published online: 16 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10268-4

Opportunities with Drell-Yan scattering: Probing sea quarks in the nucleon and nuclei p. 593

P. E. Reimer

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10196-3

Strange quarks in the nucleon sea - Results from HAPPEX II p. 597

K. A. Aniol and HAPPEX Collaboration

Published online: 23 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10207-5

Meson cloud and nucleon strangeness: An update p. 600

F. Carvalho, F. S. Navarra and M. Nielsen

Published online: 16 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10250-2

Leading and higher twists in proton, neutron and deuteron unpolarized structure functions F₂ p. 603

S. Simula

Published online: 09 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10246-x

Spin structure function of deuteron g₁ ^d from COMPASS p. 606

A. Korzenev

Published online: 16 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10175-8

Measurement of the generalized polarizabilities of the proton in virtual Compton scattering at MAMI p. 610

P. Janssens

Published online: 26 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10208-4

Electromagnetic properties of strange baryons in a relativistic quark model p. 613

T. Van Cauteren, J. Ryckebusch, B. Metsch and H. -R. Petry

Published online: 16 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10265-7

Retardation effects in the rotating string model p. 616

F. Buisseret, C. Semay and V. Mathieu

Published online: 16 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10182-9

Spin physics at COMPASS p. 620

J. M. Friedrich

Published online: 15 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10251-1

Nucleon sigma term and quark condensate in nuclear matter p. 626

K. Tsushima, K. Saito, A. W. Thomas and A. Valcarce

Published online: 19 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10179-4

Mind the gap p. 630

M. S. Bhagwat, A. Krassnigg, P. Maris and C. D. Roberts

Published online: 22 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10271-9

Hadron spectroscopy and structure from AdS/CFT p. 638

S. J. Brodsky

Published online: 05 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10221-7

The E687 cryptoexotic vector meson candidate p. 645

R. Baldini, L. Benussi, M. Bertani, S. Bianco, F. L. Fabbri, S. Pacetti and A. Zallo

Published online: 23 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10296-0

X(1859) Baryonium or something else? p. 649

D. R. Entem and F. Fernández

Published online: 26 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10209-3

Search for exotic baryons at HERMES p. 653

W. Deconinck

Published online: 01 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10219-1

QCD Coulomb gauge approach to exotic hadrons p. 656

S. R. Cotanch, I. J. General and P. Wang

Published online: 08 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10234-2

Composite-meson model and meson exchange currents p. 662

R. Ya. Kezerashvili and V. S. Boyko

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10192-7

Unraveling the f₀ nature by connecting KLOE and BABAR data through analyticity p. 665

S. Pacetti

Published online: 23 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10283-5

New hadronic states observed at BES II p. 672

Ji Xiaobin

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10278-2

D_s0 ⁺(2317) as an iso-triplet four-quark meson p. 676

K. Terasaki

Published online: 16 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10176-7

New physics and technical challenges of ¯ANDA p. 679

P. Gianotti

Published online: 01 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10211-9

Conventional view versus FINUDA claims of a deeply bound K^-pp state p. 684

A. Ramos, V. K. Magas, E. Oset and H. Toki

Published online: 16 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10264-8

Excited baryons and heavy pentaquarks in large- N_c QCD p. 687

D. Pirjol and C. Schat

Published online: 08 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10229-y

Doubly heavy-quark baryon spectroscopy and semileptonic decay p. 691

C. Albertus, E. Hernández, J. Nieves and J. M. Verde-Velasco

Published online: 12 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10242-2

Hadron spectroscopy at BABAR p. 695

S. Tosi

Published online: 16 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10174-9

Multichannel calculation of the very narrow D_s0 ^(2317) and the very broad D₀ ^(2300-2400) p. 698

G. Rupp and E. van Beveren

Published online: 15 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10269-3

Radial excitations of heavy-light mesons p. 701

T. Matsuki, T. Morii and K. Sudoh

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10287-1

Overview of Non-Relativistic QCD p. 705

J. Soto

Published online: 12 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10255-9

Relativistic NJL model with light and heavy quarks p. 711

A. L. Mota and E. Ruiz Arriola

Published online: 12 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10243-1

Study of semileptonic and nonleptonic decays of the B_c ^- meson p. 714

E. Hernández, J. Nieves and J. M. Verde-Velasco

Published online: 21 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10270-x

Heavy quarkonia from classical SU(3) Yang-Mills configurations p. 718

R. A. Coimbra and O. Oliveira

Published online: 14 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10256-8

The puzzle of the D and D_s mesons p. 722

J. Vijande, F. Fernández and A. Valcarce

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10199-0

Study of the semileptonic decays B→π, D→π and D→K p. 725

C. Albertus, J. M. Flynn, E. Hernández, J. Nieves and J. M. Verde-Velasco

Published online: 12 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10247-9

Heavy-quarkonium physics from effective-field theories p. 728

A. Vairo

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10200-0

Superfluidity in many fermion systems: Exact renormalisation group treatment p. 734

B. Krippa

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10286-2

Dimension-2 condensates, ζ-regularization and large- N_c Regge models p. 739

E. Ruiz Arriola and W. Broniowski

Published online: 19 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10184-7

On dynamical gluon mass generation p. 742

A. C. Aguilar and J. Papavassiliou

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10281-7

Aspects of quark mass generation on a torus p. 746

C. S. Fischer and M. R. Pennington

Published online: 09 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10244-0

Constraints on the IR behaviour of gluon and ghost propagator from Ward-Slavnov-Taylor identities p. 750

Ph. Boucaud, J. P. Leroy, A. Le Yaouanc, A. Y. Lokhov, J. Micheli, O. Pène, J. Rodríguez-Quintero and C. Roiesnel

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10295-1

Open Access

Finite-temperature φ ⁴ theory from the 2PI effective action: Two-loop truncation p. 754

A. Arrizabalaga and U. Reinosa

Published online: 28 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2007-10008-4

Goldstone boson counting in relativistic systems at finite density p. 758

T. Brauner

Published online: 22 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2007-10007-5

Nonequilibrium quasi-classical effective meson gas: Thermalization p. 761

R. F. Alvarez-Estrada

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10289-y

Behavior of the topological susceptibility at finite T and μ and signs of restoration of chiral symmetries p. 766

M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa and C. A. de Sousa

Published online: 12 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10238-x

2 + 1 flavor simulations of QCD with improved staggered quarks p. 769

U. M. Heller

Published online: 06 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10222-6

Lattice QCD with a twisted mass term and a strange quark p. 773

A. M. Abdel-Rehim, R. Lewis, R. M. Woloshyn and J. M. S. Wu

Published online: 12 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10245-y

Yukawa model on a lattice: Two-body states p. 777

F. De Soto, J. Carbonell, C. Roiesnel, Ph. Boucaud, J. P. Leroy and O. Pène

Published online: 22 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2007-10005-7

WChPT analysis of twisted mass lattice data p. 781

S. Aoki and O. Bär

Published online: 28 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10202-x

Understanding nucleon structure using lattice simulations - Recent progress on three different structural observables p. 784

W. Schroers

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10285-3

Quark matter in QC₂D p. 787

S. Hands, S. Kim and J. -I. Skullerud

Published online: 16 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10173-x

Infrared gluon and ghost propagators from lattice QCD - Results from large asymmetric lattices p. 790

O. Oliveira and P. J. Silva

Published online: 01 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10210-x

Hadronic decays from the lattice p. 793

C. Michael

Published online: 16 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10177-6

Lattice QCD and nuclear physics - Computations of hadron-hadron scattering p. 799

K. Orginos

Published online: 23 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10267-5

Exploring the details of the QCD phase diagram p. 804

Ph. de Forcrand and O. Philipsen

Published online: 22 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10290-6

Neutron stars as cosmic laboratories to explore hadronic matter at ultra-high densities p. 810

I. Bombaci

Published online: 19 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10266-6

Low- x QCD physics from RHIC and HERA to the LHC p. 816

D. d'Enterria

Published online: 27 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10206-6

Phase diagram of neutron star quark matter in nonlocal chiral models p. 824

D. Gómez Dumm, D. B. Blaschke, A. G. Grunfeld, T. Klähn and N. N. Scoccola

Published online: 15 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10260-0

Neutral color-spin-locking phase in neutron stars p. 828

D. N. Aguilera

Published online: 26 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10288-0

Dilepton production in pp and CC collisions with HADES p. 831

I. Fröhlich, G. Agakishiev, C. Agodi, A. Balanda, G. Bellia, D. Belver, A. Belyaev, A. Blanco, M. Böhmer, J. L. Boyard et al. (95 more)

Published online: 15 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10253-y

Low-mass dielectrons from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 836

A. Kozlov

Published online: 06 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10223-5

Phase transitions in quark matter and behaviour of physical observables in the vicinity of the critical end point p. 842

P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa, M. C. Ruivo and Yu. L. Kalinovsky

Published online: 15 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10257-7

Fluctuations and correlations in the string clustering approach p. 845

L. Cunqueiro, E. G. Ferreiro and C. Pajares

Published online: 26 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10204-8

Transport coefficients in Chiral Perturbation Theory p. 848

D. Fernández-Fraile and A. Gómez Nicola

Published online: 22 February 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10194-5

Scaling properties of fluctuation results from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 851

J. T. Mitchell

Published online: 22 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10259-5

Freeze-out of the expanding system p. 854

V. K. Magas, L. P. Csernai and E. Molnár

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10280-8

Q¯ modes in the Quark-Gluon Plasma p. 858

D. Cabrera and R. Rapp

Published online: 15 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10237-y

Fluctuations and correlations in STAR p. 862

B. K. Srivastava

Published online: 21 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10233-3

Latest results on the hot dense partonic matter at RHIC p. 868

M. J. Leitch

Published online: 09 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10240-4

Scenario of instabilities driven equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma p. 875

St. Mrówczyński

Published online: 20 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10284-4

Out-of-equilibrium quantum field dynamics in external fields p. 883

F. J. Cao

Published online: 14 March 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2006-10254-x

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