Many body structure of strongly interacting systems refereed and selected contributions from the Symposium "20 Years of Physics at the Mainz Microtron MAMI", Mainz, Germany October 19 - 22, 2005

This carefully edited proceedings volume provides an extensive review and analysis of the work carried out over the past 20 years at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI). This research centered around the application of Quantum Chromodynamics in the strictly nonperturbative regime at hadronic scales of about 1 fm. Due to the many degrees of freedom in hadrons at this scale the leitmotiv of this research is "Many body structure of strongly interacting systems". Further, an outlook on the research with the forthcoming upgrade of MAMI is given. This volume is an authoritative source of reference for everyone interested in the field of the electro-weak probing of the structure of hadrons. The beauty of the electromagnetic probe....Pages 1-5 Physics at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility....Pages 7-17 Few-nucleon systems at MAMI and beyond....Pages 19-27 Experiments with polarized 3 He at MAMI....Pages 29-38 Few-nucleon systems (theory)....Pages 39-48 Nucleon form factors in dispersion theory....Pages 49-57 Chiral perturbation theory....Pages 59-70 Two-photon physics....Pages 71-80 Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon....Pages 81-90 Photo- and electro-excitation of the Δ-resonance at MAMI....Pages 91-100 Parity violation in electron scattering....Pages 101-106 Parity-violating electron scattering at the MAMI facility in Mainz....Pages 107-115 Virtual Compton Scattering at MAMI....Pages 117-127 Experimental tests of Chiral Perturbation Theory....Pages 129-137 The Bonn Electron Stretcher Accelerator ELSA: Past and future....Pages 139-148 The Mainz Microtron MAMI —Past and future....Pages 149-160 The Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule at MAMI....Pages 161-171 Experiments with photons at MAMI....Pages 173-183 Coherent X-rays at MAMI....Pages 185-195 X-ray phase contrast imaging at MAMI....Pages 197-208 Twenty years of physics at MAMI —What did it mean?....Pages 209-219

This carefully edited proceedings volume provides an extensive review and analysis of the work carried out over the past 20 years at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI). This research centered around the application of Quantum Chromodynamics in the strictly nonperturbative regime at hadronic scales of about 1 fm. Due to the many degrees of freedom in hadrons at this scale the leitmotiv of this research is Many body structure of strongly interacting systems. Further, an outlook on the research with the forthcoming upgrade of MAMI is given.

This volume is an authoritative source of reference for everyone interested in the field of the electro-weak probing of the structure of hadrons.

This carefully edited proceedings volume provides an extensive review and analysis of the work carried out over the past 20 years at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI). This research is centered on the application of Quantum Chromodynamics in the strictly nonperturbative regime at hadronic scales of about 1 fm. The book goes further to offer an outlook on the next wave research, with the forthcoming upgrade of MAMI. Provides a review and analysis of the work carried out over the past several years at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI). This research centered around the application of Quantum Chromodynamics at hadronic scales of about 1 fm. This volume is useful for anyone interested in the field of the electro-weak probing of the structure of hadrons.