What Can an Antiproton and a Nucleus Learn from Each Other

The advent of LEAR in 1983 will bring about an improvement of many orders of magnitude in the characteristics of low-energy anti-proton beams, in the intensity, as well as in the longitudinal (energy resolution) and transverse emittances. This allows the opening up of many new fields which could not have been studied with conventional antiproton beams — detailed study of antiproton-nucleus interactions is one of them.