EuNPC2015

Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) are nowadays the object of an intense effort of research, in the perspective of understanding nucleon structure. They describe the correlations between the longitudinal momentum and the transverse spatial position of the partons inside the nucleon and they can give access to the contribution of the orbital momentum of the quarks to the nucleon spin....

I discuss recent experimental results in heavy meson spectroscopy, both in open and hidden flavour cases. In the case of open charm and beauty mesons, adopting an effective Lagrangian approach based on the heavy quark and chiral symmetry, individual decay rates and ratios of branching fractions can be computed. I discuss how the results allow to assign the quantum numbers to recently observed...

Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI–NP) is a research facility aiming to use extreme electromagnetic fields for nuclear physics research. The facility will comprise two major research instruments: a high power laser system and a very brilliant gamma beam system. The high power laser system will consist of two 10 PW APPOLON–type lasers providing intensities of up to 10^23 –...