Annual review of nuclear and particle science. Volume 37

This volume includes the following selections: prefatory chapter; recent progress on nuclear magnetic dipole transitions; nuclear fragmentation in heavy ions and proton-induced reactions; pion and energetic photon production in heavy ion collisions; pion-nucleus interaction; searches for fractional charge in terrestrial matter; EMC effect; perturbative QCD - theorems; the phenomenological predictions of perturbative QCD and their confrontation with experiment; computer simulation of nuclear dynamics; the JACEE balloon-emulsion experiments; unconventional acceleration schemes; use of special processors in elementary particle experiments; heavy quark systems; radiative psi decays; time projection chambers for tracking and particle identification; recoil mass spectrometers and their uses; evolution of strongly interacting particles; and nuclear techniques in oil exploration