New Trends in Hadron Physics: A Few-Body Perspective

The motivations for this issue are found in the intense experimental and theoretical efforts being pursued worldwide in hadron physics, which straddles the border between nuclear and particle physics. Experiment sees the operation, construction and planning of many facilities, e.g. BESIII at the Beijing electron positron collider; COMPASS and (approved) COMPASS++/AMBER at CERN; Jefferson Lab running at 12 GeV; KLOE at DAΦNE; the relativistic heavy ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory; the large hadron collider beauty experiment; the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR); the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA); and electron ion colliders in the USA (EIC) and China (EicC). (author)