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First circular<br>
8th International Conference on Quarks and
Nuclear Physics<br>
November 13-17, 2018, Tsukuba, Japan<br>
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We would like to invite you to participate
in the 8th International Conference on
Quarks and Nuclear Physics. It will be
held in Tsukuba, Japan on November 13-17,
2018. This conference follows the series
of meetings previously held in Adelaide,
Julich, Bloomington, Madrid, Beijing,
Palaiseau, and Valparaiso.
Experimentalists and theorists will
discuss recent developments in the field
of hadron and nuclear physics, and the
following topics will be covered.<br>
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Quark and gluon structure of hadrons:<br>
- parton distribution functions,
generalized parton distributions,<br>
- transverse momentum distributions,
high-energy hadron reactions, …<br>
Hadron spectroscopy:<br>
- heavy quark physics, exotics, N*, ...<br>
Hadron interactions and nuclear structure:<br>
- hypernuclear physics, kaonic nuclei,
baryon interactions, ...<br>
Hot and cold dense matter:<br>
- quark-gluon plasma, color glass
condensate, dense stars,<br>
- strong magnetic field, mesons in
nuclear medium, hadronization, ...<br>
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In addition to plenary sessions, parallel
sessions will be organized in the above
topics. A poster session will be also
arranged. Young postdocs and students are
especially welcome. Updated information
will be announced on the conference web.<br>
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We are looking forward to seeing you in
Tsukuba in 2018.<br>
<br>
Shunzo Kumano and Shinya Sawada
(KEK/J-PARC)<br>
on behalf of the local organizers<br>
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Local Organizers: * Co-chair<br>
Akinobu Dote (KEK), Yuji Goto (RIKEN),
Masayasu Harada (Nagoya Univ),<br>
Atsushi Hosaka (Osaka Univ), Kazunori
Itakura (KEK),<br>
Hiroyuki Kamano (KEK), Shunzo Kumano
(KEK,*), Osamu Morimatsu (KEK),<br>
Satoshi N. Nakamura (Tohoku Univ), Megumi
Naruki (Kyoto Univ),<br>
Hiroyuki Noumi (Osaka Univ/KEK), Hiroaki
Ohnishi (Tohoku Univ),<br>
Kyoichiro Ozawa (KEK), Hiroyuki Sako
(JAEA), Fuminori Sakuma (RIKEN),<br>
Shinya Sawada (KEK,*), Hitoshi Takahashi
(KEK), Toshiyuki Takahashi (KEK),<br>
Kazuhiro Tanaka (KEK), Kiyoshi Tanida
(JAEA)<br>
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