Physics At The Japan Hadron Facility: Proceedings Of The Workshop Adelaide, Australia, 14-21 March 2002

.+* Proceedings of the Workshop on Physics at the Japan Hadron Facility CJHF) Editors V. Guzey, A. Kizilersii, T. Nagae & A. W. Thomas CIMTHI f OR T i l NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUBATQMK Theoretical Physics i s*^ Physics at the Japan Hadron Facility UHFl This page is intentionally left blank SPECIAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE >° *• SUBATOMIC NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR •vmM.""^ ^Theoretical Physics Proceedings of the Workshop on Physics at the Japan Hadron Facility (JHFl Adelaide, Australia 14-21 March 2002 Editors V. Guzey, A. Kizilersu & A. W. Thomas CSSM, University of Adelaide, Australia T. Nagae KEK, Japan J*) World Scientific New Jersey • London • Singapore • Hong Kong Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. P O Box 128, Farrer Road, Singapore 912805 USA office: Suite IB, 1060 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. PHYSICS AT THE JAPAN HADRON FACILITY Proceedings of the Workshop Copyright © 2002 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN 981-238-147-3 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Printed in Singapore by World Scientific Printers (S) Pte Ltd Foreword The decision to proceed with construction of the Japan Hadron Facility (JHF) is of momentous importance for the international hadronic physics community. With its intense beams of protons, nuclei, kaons and neutrinos it will complement other major facilities in this field, such as Jefferson Laboratory and GSI. For scientists in the Asia-Pacific region this is an especially exciting opportunity. It was therefore a considerable honour that the Director of JHF, Professor Shoji Nagamiya, agreed to hold the first workshop outside of Japan dealing with the physics opportunities which it might provide here in Adelaide at CSSM. This meeting was attended by almost 50 delegates from eight countries, with the majority (of course) from Australia and Japan. After an introduction to the various facilities that will be available consideration turned to particular physics issues that can be addressed. These have been arranged in this volume under the general headings of strangeness in nuclear matter, neutrino oscillations and interactions, hadron structure and properties, nuclear and nucleon structure functions and hadronic properties of nuclei. These articles provide a tantalising glimpse of just some of the issues which will be addressed at JHF. During the meeting all delegates had access to library, internet and computing facilities and as usual at CSSM the early afternoons were kept clean for informal discussions and possible collaborative work. The organisation of the meeting was handled in an extremely frien