Nucleons are the most fundamental bound three-body systems in Nature. Higgs boson couplings into QCD produce only a very small part of a baryon's mass and play little role in determining its structure. During the last decade crucial progress has been achieved in the exploration of the spectrum and the structure of nucleon resonances. Studies of exclusive πN, π+π−p, KΛ, and KΣ electroproduction...
Strange particle production and propagation is sensitive to the properties of the surrounding matter and thus a tool to study the equation-of-state and the phase structure of QCD matter. Recent results from the beam energy scan II of STAR will be summarized and put into perspective with the anticipated performance of CBM at FAIR. For performance verification, Lambda production at SIS18 with...
