Horizons in World Physics: Volume 281

This book presents original research results on the leading edge of physics. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial research across a broad spectrum. Topics include a gamma spectroscopy study of natural radioactivity in soil, sediment, drinking and brine waters in communities of the oil rich Niger Delta Region, Nigeria; nature and properties of axions from the sun, archernar and gas giants; new developments of light-front dynamics in hadron physics; mesonic Lipschitz monoids; estimates for parameters and characteristics of the confining SU(3)-gluonic field in neutral vector mesons from leptonic widths; and manifestation of the strong nuclear interactions in the isotope-induced band-gap opening of graphene.