The IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics QNP 2006 [Paperback]

The QNP series of international conferences on Quarks and Nuclear Physics is by now a well established and highly respected forum where the most recent developments in the field are discussed and communicated. QNP 2006 is the forth edition of this biennial meeting.

Selected and refereed original contributions of QNP 2006 have been published in The European Physical Journal A - Hadrons and Nuclei (EPJ A), while the present proceedings book, in addition to reprinting the articles published in EPJ A, further includes all other contributions selected and accepted by the organizing committee for publication and archiving.

June 5-10, 2006, Madrid, SpainNuclear Structure and Interactions.- Modern theory of nuclear forces A.D. 2006.- Effective-field theory and the nuclear many-body problem.- Neutrino-nucleus interactions.- Extraction of G M n from inclusive electron scattering on D, 4He.- Hard collisions of spinning protons: Past, present and future.- The neutrinoless double-beta decay: A test for new physics.- Few- and many-body methods in nuclear physics.- Overview of COSY.- The kaon optical potential modified by ?+ Pentaquark excitation.- A critical analysis on deeply bound kaonic states in nuclei and the KEK experiment.- Chiral approach to antikaons in dense matter.- Meson Physics.- Meson photoproduction on the nucleon with polarized photons.- Recent KLOE results on hadron physics.- Exclusive meson production at HERMES.- The ? ? K0 decay.- Tests of the final-state radiation model at DAFNE near ?+?? threshold.- The study of light scalar mesons at BESII.- On the coherent inelastic processes in the interaction of hadrons and ?-quanta with nuclei at ultrarelativistic energies.- Scalar and axial-vector mesons.- The K? and ?? S-wave amplitude from D-meson decays.- Forward dispersion relations and Roy equations in ?? scattering.- Strangeness conservation and pair correlations of neutral kaons with low relative momenta produced in incllC"