Strangeness nuclear physics bears a broad impact on contemporary physics since it lies at the intersection of nuclear and elementary particle physics, having, moreover, significant implications to the astrophysics of compact objects.

This set of extensive lectures presents a balanced theoretical and experimental introduction to, and survey of, the field, addressing topics such as the production and spectroscopy of strange nuclear systems, modern approaches to the hyperon-nucleon interaction, and weak decays of hypernuclei.

With new experiments underway, this burgeoning...

This book discusses the present situation and future perspectives of the experimental as well as theoretical investigations of light nuclei and their interactions with electromagnetic and hadronic probes, mainly at intermediate energies. It includes the following areas of research: interaction of mesons with nuclei, hypernuclear physics, electroweak interactions in nuclei, few-body systems, hadron dynamics in nuclei, and exotic atoms.