edited by M Harada (Nagoya University, Japan), M Tanabashi (Nagoya University, Japan), & K Yamawaki (Nagoya University, Japan)

Table of Contents (49k)
Preface (30k)
The String in an Excited Baryon (230k)

This volume includes discussion on new dynamical features in the light of (deconstruted/latticized) extra dimensions, holographic QCD, Moose/hidden local symmetry, and so on. New insights into the QCD as a prototype of strong coupling gauge theories as well as in its own right, particularly in hot and dense matter are included.

• The String in an Excited Baryon (G 't Hooft)
• Mesons and Baryons from String Theory (S Sugimoto)
• Toy Model for Mixing of Two Chiral Nonets (A H Fariborz et al.)
• Strongly Interacting Matter at RHIC (C Nonaka)
• QED Corrections to Hadron and Quark Masses (Y Namekawa)
• Little Higgs M-Theory (H-C Cheng)
• Toward a Top-Mode ETC (H Fukano & K Yamawaki)
• On Cyclic Universes (P H Frampton)
• Large Gauge Hierarchy in Gauge–Higgs Unification (K Takenaga)
• Partially Composite Two Higgs Doublet Model (P Ko)
• and other papers