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Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No. 156
Strangeness in Nuclear Matter
Proceedings of Proceedings of the 18th Nishinomiya Yukawa Memorial Symposium
and
the YITP Workshop on Nuclear Matter under Extreme Conditions
Edited by Toru Harada, Akira Ohnishi and Yoshinori Akaishi
This Supplement contains lectures and papers presented at the above
symposium and workshop.
The 18th Nishinomiya-Yukawa Symposium was designed to review recent
topics on strangeness nuclear physics, which is a rapidly developing
field of nuclear physics and one of the main subjects in the Japan
Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), under construction.
Strangeness is the key property in describing high density matter,
and it is closely related to compact astrophysical objects, such as
neutron stars.
In the symposium, various aspects of strangeness in nuclear matter
were reviewed and discussed;
the fifty year history of hypernuclear physics,
recent experimental progress in hypernuclear physics,
strangeness production in heavy-ion collisions,
the description of hadrons and baryon-baryon interactions from
quark gluon degrees of
freedom,
recently observed penta-quark states,
and astrophysical implications of strangeness in neutron stars.
In the YITP Workshop, which was held as a pre-workshop of the symposium,
in addition to strangeness in nuclear matter,
related topics on nuclear matter under various extreme conditions
with respect to temperature, asymmetry and condensate, were presented
and discussed.
This volume is beneficial to researchers and graduate students in this field
as well as those in related fields,
who are interested in strangeness and nuclear matter.
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