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An overview of current theoretical approaches to generate meson-baryon reaction amplitudes is given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this opening talk at MENU2010 we outline some of the key achievements in the field over the past few years as well as some of its major challenges and opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Elastic πN scattering and the reaction π+p→K+Σ+ are described simultaneously in a unitary coupled-channels approach which respects analyticity. SU(3) flavor symmetry is used to relate the t- and u- channel exchanges that drive the meson-baryon interaction in the different channels. Angular distributions, polarizations, and spin-rotation parameters are compared with available experimental data. The pole structure of the amplitudes is extracted from the analytic continuation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The latest results on B hadron spectroscopy from the DO\ experiment at the Tevatron are presented. The mass measuremen of the Bc- meson in the Bc-→J/ψπ- decay channel, the observation of excited Bs mesons, the first direct observation of the Ξb- baryon, and the first observation of the Ωb- baryon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We demonstrate the equivalence of the light-front, equal-time and covariant formulations in meson-baryon interactions. In particular, we discuss the self-energy Σ of a nucleon dressed by pion loops with the pseudovector πNN coupling. It is shown that the leading nonanalytic behavior of Σ is equivalent whichever formulations are used for the derivation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A significant amount of experimental data for particle production in high-energy heavy ion collisions (10 - 200 GeV/A at center of mass) has been accumulated during last years. Many different theoretical attempts have tried to describe these data using thermal models in the approximation of global thermal equilibrium considering only one freeze-out temperature. However the thermal models often are not able to describe adequately the whole multiplicities of hadrons. For instance, the abundance of strange particles is overestimate and the pion yields are underestimated. In this work is presented a thermal hadronic model with two different temperatures in order to describe the baryonic and mesonic chemical freeze-out in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The model is used to fit the particle population ratios of the hadrons produced in the reaction. The proposal is not merely to incorporate one additional degree of freedom in the adjustment procedure of data, but to present and alternative scenario for the freeze out stage in the collisional proces s. This new reformulated version of thermal model was applied to a set of data, offering a rather good improvement in the fitting of the calculated particle ratios to the data. The results suggest that the introduced model makes the thermal approach more robust to handle with a larger number of colliding systems and a more comprehensive set of reaction observables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The SELEX Fixed Target Experiment (Fermilab E781) employs beams of Σ-, pions and protons to study the production and decay properties of charmed Mesons and Baryons. Here we present recent results on doubly-charmed baryons and charmed-strange mesons. © 2005 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]