The book “Mesons and Quarks” includes a wide range of topics in the frontier areas of research in the overlapping field of nuclear and particle physics. It discusses various aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at different regimes of energy and density, focusing on four major topics: · Recent developments in meson physics and modification of hadrons properties in hot and dense matter in the framework of chiral perturbation theory. · Various aspects of the Color Glass Condensates with an introduction to the physics issues being studied in the RHIC heavy ion program. · The formation and structure of dense stellar objects namely neutron and quark stars. · The phenomena of color superconductivity of dense quark matter.

Foreword / Organizing Committee / Recent Advances in Meson Physics / Hadrons in Hot and Dense Medium / Color Glass Condensate / Neutron and Quarks Stars (I) / Neutron and Quarks Stars (II) / Quark Matter / J/Y Suppression and pT Broadening at SPS and RHIC / Reduction of Vector Meson Masses in Hot and Dense Hadronic Matter / In-medium Vector Meson Properties and Low-mass Dilepton Production from Hot Hadronic Matter / Coherent Pion Production in Electroweak Processes / Pion Photo-Production in Chiral Quark Model / Strongly Interacting Matter in Astrophysics and Cosmology / Quarks in Nuclei / Exotic Phases in Compact Star Interior / Phases of Neutron Star: Radial Oscillations and Mass-Radius Relation / Chiral Symmetry Breaking, Color Superconductivity and Color Neutral Quark Matter: A Variational Approach / A New Window on Strange Quark Matter as the Ground State of Strongly Interacting Matter / Nuclear Matter Equation of State and Medium Modification of Meson Parameters / List of Participants

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