We review the present status of the experimental and theoretical developments in the field of
strangeness in nuclei and neutron stars. We start by discussing the K ̄ N interaction, that is …

The article reviews the physics related to kaon and antikaon production in heavy ion
reactions at intermediate energies. Chiral dynamics predicts substantial modifications of the …

We report on recent nonperturbative techniques that combine the information of chiral
Lagrangians (with and without resonances) with unitarity in coupled channels and other …

We perform a systematic analysis of the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy
within the microscopic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) approach using the realistic Argonne …

The self-energy of the K− meson in nuclear matter is calculated in a self-consistent
microscopic approach, using a K ̄ N interaction obtained from the lowest-order meson …

We study the effect of hadron structure changes in a nuclear medium using the quark–
meson coupling (QMC) model. The QMC model is based on a mean field description of non …

Current studies on heavy hadrons in nuclear medium are reviewed with a summary of the
basic theoretical concepts of QCD, namely chiral symmetry, heavy quark spin symmetry, and …

Recent experiments studying the meson–nucleus interaction to extract meson–nucleus
potentials are reviewed. The real part of the potentials quantifies whether the interaction is …

We show that the D− meson will form narrow bound states with 208 Pb. Mean-field
potentials for the D 0, D 0, and D− in 208 Pb are calculated self-consistently using the quark …

In our quest to win a deeper understanding of how QCD actually works, the study of the
binding of heavy quarkonia and heavy-flavor hadrons to atomic nuclei offers enormous …