Speakers and Topics

A theoretical overview was given by A. Gal, who gave an historical perspective, discussed production and decay models, and investigated the stability of various types of hypernuclei. T. Fukuda-san discussed the strangeness program proposed at JHF, the spectroscopy of hypernuclei, weak and electromagnetic hypernuclear properties, and hyperon-nucleon scattering possibilities. T. Bressani presented the FINUDA experiments and how high-resolution hypernuclear spectroscopy can be achieved with their clean kaon beam. G. Franklin talked about the Brookhaven experiments to look at S=-2 hypernuclei. B. Gibson showed his calculations on charge symmetry breaking in A=4 hypernuclei. M. Prakash demonstrated the important impact hypernuclear and hyperon physics can have on the theoretical calculations of dense hadronic matter (core of a neutron star), and the role that the strange quark may play. V. Zeps gave an overview of what can be discovered by investigating nonmeson weak decays of hypernuclei, and what is needed to do this. R. Chrien showed evidence that sigma hypernuclei are not stable beyond helium. T. Kishimoto spoke about the necessity for more theoretical work on spin-orbit splitting and the possibility of studying the inverse reaction $n p \rightarrow p \Lambda$. A. Rusek stressed that more focus is needed to get a commitment to hypernuclear physics and that a greater involvement by the theoretical community would help both experimentalists and theorists. E. Jenkins showed how a systematic treatment of hyperons in the large Nc limit illuminates their spin-flavor structure and allows some understanding of results found in chiral perturbation theory. P. Zyla discussed the FNAL experiment to measure CP violation in hyperon decays and their large sample of cascades. R. Winston described the KTeV work on neutral cascade physics.

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