PAN XIII

This international conference is dedicated to the interface between nuclear and elementary particle physics. It is the 13th in a series initiated by T.E.O. Ericson, A. de Shalit and V.F. Weisskopf at CERN in 1963. The series provides the principal international forum for the presentation and critical examination of the main results of the experimental and theoretical research in the field of interest common to nuclear and particle physics. PAN XIII reviews the status of the field in a delicate stage of transition; new experiments and instrumental facilities are bringing in more detailed and more accurate data on the various facets of the nuclear and subnuclear universe, but we are still far from a satisfactory and complete description of necleons and nuclei in terms of underlying quarks and their interactions. This work is intended for researchers, professors and graduate students in the fields of high-energy physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics.