Physics at KAON: Hadron Spectroscopy, Strangeness, Rare Decays Proceedings of the International Meeting, Bad Honnef, 7–9 June 1989

"Physics at KAON", an international meeting jointly organized by the KFA Jillich and TRI­ UMF, was held in the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef from June 7 through June 9, 1989. This was one of a series of meetings - the first one in Europe - in which plans for the medium energy physics laboratory KAON were presented and some aspects of the physics at this new facility were discussed. The meeting focussed mainly on the topics of hadron spectroscopy, J{ -meson scattering, strangeness in nuclei, and rare decays. Also presented were some of the research programs at SATURNE and COSY which may well lead to KAON physics in the future. These proceed­ ings include articles which summarize our current experimental and theoretical knowledge in the various areas, as well as papers which describe lines of research feasible with KAON. The large number of participants - limited, in fact, by the capacity of the Physikzentrum - clearly demonstrates the great interest of the European physics community in the research avenues which will be opened by the high-intensity hadron facilities. March 1990 D. Frekers, D.R. Gill, J. Speth Contents Opening remarks By E. Vogt ...................................................... Sl The TRIUMF kaon factory accelerators By M.K. Craddock ................................................ S3 Experimental facilities By P. Kitching ................................................... S9 Polarized internal targets at KAON By C.A. Miller ................................................... S21 Hyperons in the bound state approach to the Skyrme model.

Table of Contents:
Opening remarks.- The TRIUMF kaon factory accelerators.- Experimental facilities.- Polarized internal targets at KAON.- Hyperons in the bound state approach to the Skyrme model. Magnetic moments of baryons.- Y* resonances in the mass range 1520–2430 MeV/c2.- KAON and COSY - common aspects in hadron physics.- The creation of high energy densities with antimatter beams.- The future of ?-hypemuclei.- Direct CP violation observed in decays of neutral KL mesons.- Rare decays at the kaon factory.- Problems in neutrino physics.- $$\bar{\text{P}}$$P annihilation at rest: annihilation dynamics and meson spectroscopy.- Exotic mesons.- Mesons, hybrids, and glueballs: the search for new forms of hadronic matter.- Some aspects of strange baryon decays.- Current status of E/f1 (1420) and ?/? 1450).- High statistics experiments: the LASS experience.- Physics at SATURNE.- $$\text{High-P}^2_\bot$$ spin dependent measurements.- The ?S = 0 hadronic weak interaction.- Hypernuclear physics with the (?+, K+) reaction.- Theoretical investigations of reactions with strange particles.- Exotic atoms.- The CF4/isobutane (80:20) gas mixture and high rate proportional chambers.- Strangeness production in antiproton annihilation on nuclei.- Summary and concluding remarks.- Index of Contributors.