[en] An attempt has been made to present some of the emerging concepts leading to the phenomena of magnetic rotations and show results which high light this novel feature

[en] The recent observation of the nuclear anapole moment (NAM) is of great significance in nuclear and atomic systems. We discuss the general features of this moment. We also highlight its present status and possible new approaches for its observation. (author)

[en] Disoriented chiral condensates (DCC) have been predicted to form in high energy heavy ion collisions where the approximate chiral symmetry of QCD has been restored. This leads to large imbalances in the production of charged to neutral pions. We present a short review of current experimental efforts and future prospects. (author)

[en] This volume of the Nuclear Physics Symposium contains papers on magnetic rotations in nuclei studied through discrete gamma spectroscopy, the parity violating anapole moment of the nucleus, liquid gas phase transition in nuclear matter, physics with radioactive ion beams, development of a heavy ion injector and the early time development of the quark gluon plasma. The papers relevant to INIS are indexed separately

[en] We discuss, in this review, the existing models for the production of QGP in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We shall try to give a brief description of the models available for the pre-equilibrium production of QGP, ranging from soft process dominated QCD regime to the pQCD dominated regime. We also present the estimates for the initial energy density, the temperature and the thermalization time- available from each of these studies. Finally, we shall address the questions regarding thermalization, color equilibration and chemical equilibration of the produced QGP in different experimental facilities. (author)

[en] The discovery of the neutron in 1932 made the study of the nucleus a normal science activity, to use a phrase of Thomas Kuhn. But the discovery of the pion, following Yukawa's conjecture was a landmark for two reasons. First, it made physicists comfortable with the idea that the nucleus was a product of a different type of force although there were no easy procedures to make the type of precision calculations that were possible for atomic spectra. But in another sense, the discovery of pions was to set a pattern for light energy physics

[en] Recent literature on incomplete fusion, particularly in the beam energy range of 5-10 MeV/amu is reviewed. An overview of the present state of understanding of incomplete fusion reactions is presented. There is an ambiguity about whether incomplete fusion and deep inelastic collisions are the manifestations of the same reaction mechanism or not. Recent studies focussed on these lines are discussed. (author)

[en] The (approximate) chiral symmetry of strong interactions was postulated in the late sixties to explain the low energy pion-nucleon interactions. Later it was realised that, because of small values of u and d (current quark) masses, it turns out that the chiral symmetry is indeed a very good approximate symmetry of the QCD. Chiral models of baryons were then developed to accommodate this aspect of the strong interactions. In this talk a review of the chiral models of baryons is presented. (author)

[en] The main goal of all the experiments performed using the ultra- relativistic heavy ion beams is to search for the formation of deconfined state of quarks and gluons, called Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Unlike the search for the production of exotic particle, the search of the formation of QGP is full of theoretical predictions, demanding a scenario for the experimentalists to detect all the particles coming out of the collisions. One of the most important variables being discussed in this article is the detection of photon multiplicity which was undertaken in WA93 experiment using S+Au collisions and in WA98 experiment with Pb-Pb collisions. (author)

[en] In an overall conclusions the analyses of the charge-exchange processes, p(n,p)n and p(p,Δ⁺⁺)n reactions one can find that the virtual pions with the nucleons readily initiate the excitations which have quantum numbers of pions. This they do singly or with rho- an isovector vector (T=1,1⁺) construct of two pions, and over a wide energy range of beam particles. This clearly proves the physical existence of pions at a very fundamental level in nuclear physics