Hadronic matter or ... to-day and tomorrow with electrons

The various themes of this course are: nature of the electromagnetic probe (basics of electron scattering, electron and photon properties and derivation of the main cross sections); the main research program themes of the CEBAF new 4 GeV continuous beam electron accelerator; interaction of real photons with nuclei (proton polarizability, role of MEC in photonuclear absorption, possible evidence of three-body forces); introduction to the inelastic scattering of leptons; the nucleon spin structure; the quantum chromodynamics; electroproduction of heavy flavors, notion of color transparency and propagation of a quark in the nuclear medium; two aspects of the EEF project: the 15-30 GeV superconducting electron linac and high luminosity detectors; charged particle channeling in a crystal; channeling radiation and strong field phenomena