MESON'96

Friday, 10 May

• 9:00 - 9:20 opening

Mesons from ppbar and pp

• 9:30 - 10:15 H. Koch (Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany)
  New results on meson spectroscopy with crystal barrel detector
• 10:15 - 11:00 J. Haidenbauer (KFA Juelich, Germany)
  Threshold meson production in nucleon-nucleon collisions
• 11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
• 11:30 - 12:00 E.L. Rizzini (Universita' di Brescia, Italy)
  OZI rule violations in antiproton-proton annihilation
• 12:00 - 12:30 C.J. Horowitz (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
  Relativistic models of meson production

Afternoon session

• 14:15 - 14:45 J.A. Niskanen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  Pion production and absorption as a probe of the two-nucleon axial charge and axial current
• 14:45 - 15:15 J. Foertsch (KFA Juelich & National Accelerator Centre, Faure, South Africa)
  Study of the p + p = pi+ + d reaction close to the threshold
• 15:15 - 15:45 Ch. Hanhart (KFA Juelich, Germany)
  The reaction n n -> n n pi close to threshold
• 15:45 - 16:15 J. Balewski (KFA Juelich & IFJ Cracow, Poland)
  Meson production in p+p interaction at the threshold
• 16:15 - 16:45 coffee break

Parallel sessions

Threshold production

• 16:45 - 17:05 S. Wycech (IPJ Warszawa, Poland)
  Phenomenological analysis of the threshold meson production in pp collisions
• 17:05 - 17:25 Ch. Bargholtz (University of Stokholm, Sweden)
  Two pion production close to threshold in the isospin zero channel
• 17:25 - 17:45 T. Ueda (Ehime University, Japan)
  Meson production in baryon number = 2 systems
• 17:45 - 18:05 W. M. Kloet (Rutgers University, USA)
  Comparison of pion and kaon production from p pbar
• 18:05 - 18:25 Stina Haggstrom (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  First exclusive measurement of eta production in quasifree pN collisions
• 18:25 - 18:45 R. Bilger (Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany)
  Search for a narrow piNN-resonance in pionic double charge exchange and other reactions

Medium effects

• 16:45 - 17:05 A. Wagner (GSI Darmstadt, Germany)
  Charged pion production in heavy ion collisions
• 17:05 - 17:25 W. Weinhold (GSI Darmstadt, Germany)
  Thermodynamics of the pi-N system
• 17:25 - 17:45 T. Matulewicz (Warsaw University, Poland)
  Eta-meson production and delta-resonance excitation in heavy-ion collisions below the pion threshold
• 17:45 - 18:05 A. Kurepin (Russian Academy of Science, Russia)
  Collective effects in Kaon production by heavy ions
• 18:05 - 18:25 L. Farhi (IPN Orsay, France)
  Propagation of coherent pions in nuclei
• 18:25 - 18:45 E. Golubeva (Russian Academy of Science, Russia)
  Medium effects in production of omega and rho mesons

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• 20:00 social evening

Saturday, 11 May

Mesons from Nuclear Collisions and Medium Effects

• 9:00 - 9:45 V. Metag (GSI & Giessen Universitaet, Germany)
  Mesonic decays of baryon resonances in nuclei and compressed hadronic matter
• 9:45 - 10:30 J. Aichelin (SUBATECH Nantes, France)
  Mesons from HI collisions - status of the theory
• 10:30 - 11:00 D. Pelte (Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany)
  Meson production observed with the FOPI detector
• 11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
• 11:30 - 12:00 B. Ramstein (IPN Orsay, France)
  DELTA production and propagation in nuclei
• 12:00 - 12:30 P. Senger (GSI Darmstadt, Germany)
  Kaons from nucleus-nucleus collisions

Afternoon session

• 14:15 - 15:00 M. Nowak (IFUJ Krakow, Poland)
  Chiral symmetry and the matter
• 15:00 - 15:45 G. Chanfray (IPN Lyon, France)
  Pions in the nuclear medium
• 15:45 - 16:15 R. Holzmann (GSI Darmstadt, Germany)
  Delta propagation in nuclei
• 16:15 - 16:40 coffee break

Parallel sessions

Mesons from p-nucleus collisions

• 16:40 - 17:00 B. Jakobsson (CELSIUS, Sweden)
  Meson production studies at TSL (Uppsala)
• 17:00 - 17:20 M. Debowski (IFUJ Krakow, Poland)
  K and pi production in p+A, d+A and alpha+A
• 17:20 - 17:40 B. Kamys (IFUJ Krakow, Poland)
  Kaon production in proton-nucleus interaction
• 17:40 - 18:00 A. Brenschede (Universitaet Giessen, Germany)
  K-production experiments at DISTO
• 18:00 - 18:20 F. Kleefeld (Universitaet Erlangen, Germany)
  Strangenness production in pp->pYK and the s sbar admixture in the proton

Meson photoproduction/propagation

• 16:40 - 17:00 A. Bel'kov (JINR Dubn, Russia)
  Photoproduction of neutral pion pair in the Coulomb field of the nucleus
• 17:00 - 17:20 T. Mart (Universitaet Mainz, Germany)
  Kaon photoproduction on the nucleon
• 17:20 - 17:40 W. Beulertz (Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)
  Photoproduction of eta mesons at PHOENICS
• 17:40 - 18:00 J.A.G. Tejedor (Universidad de Valencia, Spain)
  Two pion photoproduction on the nucleon
• 18:00 - 18:20 E. Kolomeitsev (Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Germany)
  Hot and dense pion system with the dynamically fixed number of particles

Sunday, 12 May

Social Program

• a whole day excursion to the Eagle Nest Valley in the Jurasic Upland

  or

• a sightseeing tour round the Old City of Cracow and the Wawel castle at the morning

  and/or

• a short visit to the oldest in Europe Wieliczka Salt Mine after lunch

• "Consortium Jagiellonicum" concert in the Collegium Novum Aula at 7 p.m.

Monday, 13 May

Hadron Structure, Electromagnetic Processes, Pion Absorption

• 9:00 - 9:45 Dan-Olof Riska (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  The N* -> N eta branching ratios and quark model
• 9:45 - 10:20 B. Metsch (Universitaet Bonn, Germany)
  The quark structure of light mesons
• 10:20 - 10:50 A. Szczurek (IFJ Krakow, Poland)
  Mesons and the nucleon structure
• 10:50 - 11:30 coffee break
• 11:30 - 12:00 R. Landau (Oregon State University, USA)
  Bound states and resonances in low energy kaon and pion interactions
• 12:00 - 12:30 E. Oset (Universidad de Valencia, Spain)
  K-Kbar bound states in chiral perturbation theory and the f0, a0 resonances

Afternoon session

• 14:15 - 15:00 H. P. Blok (Vrije Universiteit & NIKHEF-K, Netherland)
  Electroproduction of neutral pions at threshold and in the DELTA resonance region
• 15:00 - 15:30 B. Krusche (Universitaet Giessen, Germany)
  Photo production of mesons
• 15:30 - 16:00 Quentin Ingram (PSI, Switzerland)
  Initial state interactions in multi-nucleon pion absorption
• 16:00 - 16:20 H. Kamada (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
  Pion absorption on 3He
• 16:20 - 16:40 coffee break

Parallel sessions

Mesons from few nucleon systems

• 16:40 - 17:00 W. Scobel (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany)
  Meson production experiments with deuterons
• 17:00 - 17:20 J. Stepaniak (Warsaw University, Poland)
  Pion production in p+3He interaction
• 17:20 - 17:40 J. Zlomanczuk (IFUW Warszawa, Poland)
  Production of eta in proton-deuteron collisions at CELSIUS
• 17:40 - 18:00 E. Roderburg (KFA Juelich, Germany)
  Studies of pp and pd interactions with the Time of Flight Spectrometer at COSY
• 18:00 - 18:20 T. Kirchner (Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Germany)
  Meson production in the p+d -> 3He+X reaction at SPES3 with E(inc)=1450 MeV
• 18:20 - 18:40 A. Buchmann (Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany)
  Meson exchange currents inside baryons

Multi-quark systems and quark models

• 16:40 - 17:10 L.G. Landsberg (Institute for High Energy Physics, Russia)
  Search for pentaquark baryons with hidden strangeness
• 17:10 - 17:40 H. Mueller (Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Germany)
  A quark model for hadron production
• 17:40 - 18:00 M. Dillig (Universitaet Erlangen, Germany)
  Light-cone dynamics of mesons with heavy and heavy-light quarks
• 18:00 - 18:20 Chueng-Ryong Ji (North Carolina State University, USA)
  Lightcone quark model studies of meson structure
• 18:20 - 18:40 F. Gareev (JINR, LTPH Dubna, Russia)
  Geometrical quantisation. Hadronic resonances

• 20:15 - 21:00 P. L. Biermann (Max Planck Institut fuer Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany)
  Cosmic Rays interaction and the abundances of the chemical elements

Tuesday, 14 May

Spin Observables, Prospects for the Future

• 9:00 - 9:45 B. von Przewoski (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
  Spin observables in NN scattering
• 9:45 - 10:30 D. Dehnhard (University of Minnesota, USA)
  New results on spin effects in pion-nucleus scattering and single-charge exchange
• 10:30 - 11:15 E. Klempt (Universitaet Bonn, Germany)
  Quark versus hadron degrees of freedom in pbar p annihilation
• 11:15 - 11:45 coffee break
• 11:45 - 12:30 S. Kowalski (MIT-Bates, USA)
  Spin observables in high energy electron scattering
• 12:30 - 13:00 R. Tacik (TRIUMF, Canada)
  Pion-nucleus physics with the CHAOS detector at TRIUMF

Afternoon session

• 14:50 - 15:10 R. Jahn (Universitaet Bonn, Germany)
  Two pion production at MOMO
• 18:20 - 18:40 M. Buescher (KFA Juelich, Germany)
  Planed meson production studies with ANKE at COSY
• 15:10 - 15:30 P. Salabura (IFUJ Krakow, Poland)
  From hadrons to hadronic matter: dilepton spectroscopy with HADES
• 15:30 - 15:50 A. Trzupek (IFJ Krakow, Poland)
  The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC
• 15:50 - 16:10 coffee break

• 16:10 - 17:00 B. Schoch (Universitaet Bonn, Germany)
  Summary