1. Foreword

   EditorialNotes Pages: 234 - 235

2. Single photons, dileptons and hadrons from relativistic heavy ion collisions and quark-hadron phase transition

   • Dinesh Kumar Srivastava

   OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 249

3. A new slant on hadron structure

   • W Detmold
   • D B Leinweber
   • S V Wright

   OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 261

4. An empirical approach to the theory of particle and nuclear phenomena: Review and some new ideas

   • Raja Ramanna
   • Sudhir R Jain

   ReviewPaper Pages: 263 - 269

5. Searching for quark matter with dileptons and photons: From SPS to relativistic heavy-ion collider

   • Itzhak Tserruya

   OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 283

6. Multiplicity distributions and charged-neutral fluctuations

   • Tapan K Nayak
   • MM Aggarwal
   • GR Young

   OriginalPaper Pages: 285 - 300

7. Multifragmentation and the phase transition: A systematic study of the multifragmentation of 1A GeV Au, La and Kr

   • BK Srivastava

   OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 313

8. Neutrino anomaly and ν-nucleus interactions

   • S K Singh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 315 - 324

9. Quark matter formation in dense stellar objects

   • S C Phatak

   OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 335

10. Chiral symmetry and nuclear matter equation of state

    • A B Santra

    OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 344

11. Heavy ions at the LHC: Physics perspectives and experimental program

    • J Schukraft

    OriginalPaper Pages: 345 - 354

12. First results from RHIC-PHENIX

    • Tarun Kanti Ghosh
    • K Adcox
    • S Zhou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 369

13. Nuclear responses for neutrinos and neutrino studies by double beta decays and inverse beta decays

    • H Ejiri

    OriginalPaper Pages: 371 - 377

14. Nuclear and hadronic reaction mechanisms producing spin asymmetry

    • Ken-Ichi Kubo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 379 - 387

15. Hyperon production in pp collisions

    • NG Kelkar
    • BK Jain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 389 - 397

16. Meson production in p + d reactions

    • H Machner
    • M Betigeri
    • K Zwoll

    OriginalPaper Pages: 399 - 416

17. Chiral unitary theory: Application to nuclear problems

    • E Oset
    • D Cabrera
    • M J Vicente Vacas

    OriginalPaper Pages: 417 - 431

18. Exclusive hadronic processes and color transparency

    • Pankaj Jain
    • John P Ralston

    OriginalPaper Pages: 433 - 444

19. Parametrization of nuclear parton distributions

    • M Hirai
    • S Kumano
    • M Miyama

    OriginalPaper Pages: 445 - 457

20. Nuclear structure at high excitation energies

    • A Ansari

    OriginalPaper Pages: 459 - 467

21. Open problems in formation and decay of composite systems in heavy ion reactions

    • G Viesti
    • V Rizzi
    • D Shetty

    OriginalPaper Pages: 469 - 479

22. Superheavy nuclei — cold synthesis and structure

    • Raj K Gupta

    OriginalPaper Pages: 481 - 492

23. Proton scattering from unstable nuclei

    • Y Blumenfeld
    • E Khan
    • T Suomijärvi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 493 - 504

24. E1 resonances in neutron-rich nuclei within the phonon damping model

    • Nguyen Dinh Dang
    • Vuong Kim Au
    • Akito Arima

    OriginalPaper Pages: 505 - 518

25. Physics with loosely bound nuclei

    • Chhanda Samanta

    OriginalPaper Pages: 519 - 524

26. Recent radioactive ion beam program at RIKEN and related topics

    • Akira Ozawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 525 - 533

27. Structure of light neutron-rich nuclei through coulomb dissociation

    • U Datta Pramanik
    • T Aumann
    • H Simon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 535 - 544

28. Success and limits of the relativistic mean field description of nuclear properties

    • Y K Gambhir

    OriginalPaper Pages: 545 - 556

29. Compression modes and the nuclear matter incompressibility coefficient

    • Shalom Shlomo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 557 - 570

30. Quantum chaos, thermalization and dissipation in nuclear systems

    • Sudhir R Jain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 571 - 584

31. Recent studies in heavy ion induced fission reactions

    • RK Choudhury

    OriginalPaper Pages: 585 - 600

32. Peculiarities of the modern neutron spectrometry

    • YuP Popov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 601 - 610

33. Magnetic rotation and chiral symmetry breaking

    • Ashok Kumar Jain
    • Amita

    OriginalPaper Pages: 611 - 622

34. The project SPES at LNL: Accelerator challenges

    • A Facco

    OriginalPaper Pages: 623 - 637

35. Folded tandem ion accelerator facility at trombay

    • P Singh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 639 - 650

36. Superconducting LINAC booster for the mumbai pelletron

    • B Srinivasan
    • S K Singh
    • M K Pandey

    OriginalPaper Pages: 651 - 658

37. Superconducting linac and associated accelerator development at NSC

    • Amit Roy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 659 - 663

38. Summary of ISNP2K

    • H Ejiri

    OriginalPaper Pages: 665 - 670