| Sponsors | 4 |
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| Contents | 5 |
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| Foreword | 7 |
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| The beauty of the electromagnetic probe | 9 |
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| 1 Introduction | 9 |
| 2 Evidence for multiple photon effects in elastic electron scattering from the proton | 10 |
| 3 Role of sea quarks in nucleon structure | 10 |
| 4 BLAST Experiment at MIT-Bates | 11 |
| 5 Conclusion | 12 |
| References | 13 |
| Physics at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility | 14 |
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| 1 Personal Comments | 14 |
| 2 Research at Jefferson Laboratory | 14 |
| 3 How are the nucleons made from quarks and glue? | 15 |
| 4 Explore the limits of our understanding of nuclear structure | 21 |
| 5 Summary | 23 |
| References | 23 |
| Few-nucleon systems at MAMI and beyond | 25 |
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| 1 Introduction | 25 |
| 2 Short overview of the (e, eN) reaction | 25 |
| 3 Studies of the deuteron | 26 |
| 4 3He and 4He studies | 29 |
| 5 Polarization transfer experiments | 32 |
| 6 Summary and conclusion | 33 |
| References | 33 |
| Experiments with polarized 3He at MAMI | 34 |
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| 1 Introduction | 34 |
| 2 Polarization methods | 35 |
| 3 Experiments with polarized | 35 |
| 4 Summary and outlook | 42 |
| References | 43 |
| Few-nucleon systems (theory) | 44 |
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| 1 Introduction | 44 |
| 2 The two-nucleon system | 44 |
| 3 More complex few-nucleon systems | 51 |
| 4 Summary and outlook | 52 |
| References | 53 |
| Nucleon form factors in dispersion theory | 54 |
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| 1 Introduction | 54 |
| 2 Definitions | 55 |
| 3 Dispersion relations and spectral decomposition | 55 |
| 4 Two-pion continuum | 56 |
| 5 Spectral functions | 57 |
| 6 Constraints | 58 |
| 7 Fit results | 58 |
| 8 Time-like data | 59 |
| 9 Pion cloud of the nucleon | 60 |
| 10 Summary | 60 |
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| References | 62 |
| Chiral perturbation theory | 63 |
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| Success and challenge | 63 |
| 1 Introduction | 63 |
| 2 Chiral perturbation theory for mesons | 64 |
| 3 Chiral perturbation theory for baryons | 67 |
| 4 Summary | 73 |
| References | 73 |
| Two-photon physics | 75 |
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| 1 Introduction | 75 |
| 2 Sum rules in Compton scattering | 75 |
| 3 Nucleon excitation spectrum | 77 |
| 4 Conclusions | 83 |
| References | 83 |
| Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon | 85 |
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| Experiments at MAMI | 85 |
| 1 Introduction | 85 |
| 2 Coincidence experiments to measure GM,n | 86 |
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