1. Preface

   • Andrej Kugler
   • Herbert Löhner

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 4

2. A brief introduction to chiral perturbation theory

   • Barry R. Holstein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 23

3. Photoexcitation of baryon resonances

   • Bernd Krusche

   OriginalPaper Pages: 24 - 48

4. Photo- and electroproduction of strange mesons: From elementary process to hypernuclei

   • Miloslav Sotona

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 68

5. Threshold strangeness production in pp interactions

   • Walter Oelert
   • Magnus Wolke
   • COSY-11 collaboration at COSY-Jülich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 90

6. Hard photon production in the reaction Xe+Sn at 50 A MeV

   • R. Ortega
   • TAPS collaboration

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 102

7. Thermal hard-photons probing multifragmentation in nuclear collisions around the fermi energy

   • D. G. d'Enterria
   • G. Martínez
   • TAPS collaboration

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 112

8. Bremsstrahlung in the nuclear medium: Search for coherence phenomena

   • H. W. Wilschut
   • M. J. van Goethem
   • TAPS collaboration

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 120

9. Systematic of proton-induced pion production at subthreshold energies

   • H. W. Wilschut

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 127

10. Test of the mott effect in heavy-ion collisions

    • D. Baiborodin
    • TAPS Collaboration

    OriginalPaper Pages: 128 - 138

11. Elliptic flow of ν ands π ⁰ mesons in heavy-ion collisions at 2 A GeVmesons in heavy-ion collisions at 2 A GeV

    • A. Taranenko
    • A. Kugler
    • TAPS Collaboration

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 166