Perspectives on Photon Interactions with Hadrons and Nuclei

Leading physicists discuss intermediate and high-energy nuclear physics with real and virtual photons. The interplay between nuclear and particle physics, especially with respect to new and forthcoming accelerators, is explored.

Inhalt
Vector meson dominance.- Signs of vector meson dominance in the total photoabsorption cross section.- The shadowing effect in the compton scattering cross section.- The shadowing effect in deep inelastic lepton scattering.- The electromagnetic interaction of rhos.- Vector meson dominance and pointlike coupling of the photon in soft and hard processes.- Probing the short range behavior of nuclei with high PT photo- and electro-nuclear reactions.- Point-like interactions of photons in high PT photoproduction.- The Coulomb field of relativistic nuclei: An intense source of (almost) real photons.- Photon scattering as a tool for study of nucleon and nucleus structure.- Photon and pion scattering on the basis of quark models.- Pion photoproduction and Compton scattering in quark models.- Compton scattering off nucleons near threshold.- Eta photoproduction from nuclei.- Photonuclear reactions at intermediate energies.- Photonuclear reactions at intermediate energies by self-consistent RPA-SK3 continuum theory: The mean-field quasideuteron effect.- Dipole sum rule enhancement in nuclei.