Welcome to ASAP 2006: the 17 IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, held in picturesque Steamboat Springs nestled in the Colorado Rockies. This year is the twentieth anniversary of the ASAP conference series that started in 1986 in Oxford, UK as the “International Workshop on Systolic Arrays.” Over the years we kept the ASAP acronym, while i...

We investigate the sensitivity of J/Ψ production in proton-neutron and proton-deuteron collisions to charge symmetry violations in the parton distributions as well as to nuclear corrections. It is found that the effects of charge symmetry violations in the quark distributions are confined to large xF and difficult to measure in experiments currently being planned. However, from proton-deuteron ...