Low Energy Hadron Physics

Abstract

Ask a group of particle theorists about low energy hadron physics and they will say that this is a subject that belongs to the age of the dinosaurs. However, it is GeV physics that controls the outcome of every hadronic interaction at almost every energy. Confinement of quarks and gluons (and any other super-constituents) means that it is the femto-universe that determines what experiments detect. What we have to learn at the start of the 21st century is discussed.

Comments: Invited introductory talk at the Workshop on Physics and Detectors for DA$\Phi$NE, Frascati, November 16-19, 1999