Ebook: Frontier Topics in Nuclear Physics

This volume contains the lectures and contributions presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Frontier Topics in Nuclear Physics", held at Predeal in Romania from 24 August to 4 September 1993. The ASI stands in a row of 23 Predeal Summer Schools organized by the Institute of Atomic Physics (Bucharest) in Predeal or Poiana-Brasov during the last 25 years. The main topics of the ASI were cluster radioactivity, fission and fusion. the production of very heavy elements, nuclear structure described with microscopic and collective models, weak: interaction and double beta decay, nuclear astrophysics, and heavy ion reactions from low to ultrarelativistic energies. The content of this book is ordered according to these topics. The ASI started with a lecture by Professor Greiner on the "Present and future of nuclear physics", showing the most important new directions of research and the interdisciplinary relations of nuclear physics with other fields of physics. This lecture is printed in the first chapter of the book.

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Present and Future of Nuclear Physics; Introductory Lecture. ClusterDecay, Fission and Fusion: Cluster Radioactivity; P.B. Price. Recent Advances in Cluster Radioactivities; D.N. Poenaru, W. Greiner.HeavyElements: Multinucleon Transfer Reactions-An Alternative Path to Heavy Element Synthesis; M.T. Magda. Microscopic and Semi-microscopic Approach to the Properties of Transactinide Nuclei; L. Bitaud, et al.Nuclear Structure: On the Origin of Rotations and Vibrations in Atomic Nuclei; J.P. Draayer, et al. Particle-rotor Model Description of Deformed Nuclei; A. Covello, et al.Weak Interactionand Double Beta Decay: Nuclear Aspects of Double Beta Decay; S.Stoica. A New Look to the Nuclear Structure Calculations of the PNC Cases in A=1821 Nuclei; M. Horoi.Nuclear Astrophysics: Recent Topics from Nuclear Reactions in the Energies Ranging from keV to GeV; K.Kubo.Heavy Ion Collisions: Processes in Peripheral Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions; M. Greiner, et al.Miscellaneous Topics: Gamma and Meson Production by Cherenkovlike Effects in Nuclear Media; W.Stocker, D.B. Ion. 58 additional articles. Index.

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Present and Future of Nuclear Physics; Introductory Lecture. ClusterDecay, Fission and Fusion: Cluster Radioactivity; P.B. Price. Recent Advances in Cluster Radioactivities; D.N. Poenaru, W. Greiner.HeavyElements: Multinucleon Transfer Reactions-An Alternative Path to Heavy Element Synthesis; M.T. Magda. Microscopic and Semi-microscopic Approach to the Properties of Transactinide Nuclei; L. Bitaud, et al.Nuclear Structure: On the Origin of Rotations and Vibrations in Atomic Nuclei; J.P. Draayer, et al. Particle-rotor Model Description of Deformed Nuclei; A. Covello, et al.Weak Interactionand Double Beta Decay: Nuclear Aspects of Double Beta Decay; S.Stoica. A New Look to the Nuclear Structure Calculations of the PNC Cases in A=1821 Nuclei; M. Horoi.Nuclear Astrophysics: Recent Topics from Nuclear Reactions in the Energies Ranging from keV to GeV; K.Kubo.Heavy Ion Collisions: Processes in Peripheral Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions; M. Greiner, et al.Miscellaneous Topics: Gamma and Meson Production by Cherenkovlike Effects in Nuclear Media; W.Stocker, D.B. Ion. 58 additional articles. Index.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Present and Future of Nuclear Physics....Pages 3-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Cluster Radioactivity....Pages 39-44
Recent Advances in Cluster Radioactivities....Pages 45-56
Cluster Radioactivity. Two-Soliton Solutions on Sphere....Pages 57-69
Alpha and 12C Radioactivities of 114Ba....Pages 71-72
Fine Structure in the Cluster Decays....Pages 73-78
Microscopic Calculation for Alpha and 12C Emissions from Proton-Rich Ba and Ce Isotopes....Pages 79-80
Clustering and the Continuum in Nuclei....Pages 81-86
Cluster Formation and Decay in a Microscopic Model: The Alpha Decay of 212Po....Pages 87-98
The Alpha-Particle Mean Field and Consistent Pre-Equilibrium and Statistical Emission....Pages 99-100
Neutron Multiplicities in Spontaneous Fission and Nuclear Structure Studies....Pages 101-112
Cold Fission....Pages 113-127
Theory of Super-Asymmetric Cold Fission and Cluster-Decay....Pages 129-140
Superasymmetric Fission Trajectories in a Tridimensional Configuration Space....Pages 141-142
Quantum Tunneling Spectrum and Application to Cold Fission....Pages 143-144
Fusion and Quasi-Elastic Reactions at Near-Barrier Energies....Pages 145-146
A Pocket in Cold Fusion Potential Barrier....Pages 147-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Properties of Heaviest Nuclei....Pages 151-156
The Prospects of Heavy Element Research....Pages 157-168
Multinucleon Transfer Reactions — an Alternative Path to Heavy Element Synthesis....Pages 169-180
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Microscopic and Semi-Microscopic Approach to the Properties of Transactinide Nuclei....Pages 181-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
On the Origin of Rotations and Vibrations in Atomic Nuclei....Pages 189-206
Particle-Rotor Model Description of Deformed Nuclei....Pages 207-216
Spin-Dependent Generalized Collective Model....Pages 217-220
Two Phonon Excitations in Heavy Nuclei Studied in Photon Scattering Experiments....Pages 221-228
Toward a Complete Understanding of the Scissors Mode....Pages 229-242
Electric Excitations in Backward Electron Scattering....Pages 243-244
Observation of Non Yrast States in Barium Nuclei Following Isomeric ?-Decay with the Osiris Cube Detector Array....Pages 245-251
Identification of the Two Pairing-Vibration Phonon ? Particle Mode in 145Sm and Neighbours....Pages 253-254
Triaxial Deformation in Proton-Odd Cs Nuclei....Pages 255-256
Shape Coexistence in Neutron-Deficient 111Sb....Pages 257-258
Lifetime Measurements with the Gamma Ray Induced Doppler (GRID) Broadening Method....Pages 259-260
On Line Study of Neutron Deficient Hafnium Isotopes Using Fast Radiochemical Separations....Pages 261-262
Toroidal Multipole Transitions in Collective Excitations of Atomic Nuclei....Pages 263-266
How Important is the Proper Treatment of Translational Invariance in the Analysis of Electron Scattering from Nuclei ?....Pages 267-268
Variational Approach to Complex Nuclear Structure Problems....Pages 269-278
Description of the Continuum in Calculating Partial Decay Widths of Giant Resonances....Pages 279-280
High-Quasiparticle Calculation in Spherical Nuclei....Pages 281-282
Cluster Approach to Atomic Nuclei....Pages 283-284
Front Matter....Pages 285-294
Deformation, Clusterization, Fission and SU(3)....Pages 187-187
Nuclear Shapes at Very High Angular Momenta....Pages 295-305
Front Matter....Pages 307-308
Double Beta Decay and Neutrino Mass. The Heidelberg-Moscow Experiment....Pages 309-309
Anharmonic and Deformation Effects in 2v?? Decay....Pages 311-329
Nuclear Aspects of Double Beta Decay....Pages 331-342
A New Look to the Nuclear Structure Calculations of the PNC Cases in A=18-21 Nuclei....Pages 343-352
Front Matter....Pages 353-354
Various Problems of Nuclear Astrophysics Approached by Coulomb Dissociation Experiments....Pages 355-356
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles as the Dark Matter of the Universe....Pages 357-357
Recent Topics from Nuclear Reactions in the Energies Ranging from keV to GeV....Pages 359-367
An Electromagnetic Calorimeter for Spectroscopy of TeV Cosmic Rays Muons....Pages 369-378
Thermonuclear Reaction Rate Uncertainties from Nuclear Model Calculations....Pages 379-394
Front Matter....Pages 395-402
Nuclear Molecular Phenomena in Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 403-404
The Ni+Ni Puzzle: Resonances in the Scattering of Medium Heavy Ions?....Pages 405-405
Quasimolecular States — A Particular Case of the New-Class Resonant States....Pages 407-418
Classical Cluster Formation, Application to Nuclear Multifragmentation....Pages 419-420
Azimuthal Anisotropies of Pions in Heavy-Ion Collisions: A New Chance of Probing the Hot and Dense Reaction Phase?....Pages 421-431
The Ratio of the ? and J/? Meson Yields as a Possible Signature of the Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation....Pages 433-434
Processes in Peripheral Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions....Pages 435-437
Front Matter....Pages 439-440
Electron-Positron Pair Creation in Relativistic Atomic Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 441-446
Front Matter....Pages 447-452
Gamma and Meson Production by Cherenkov-Like Effects in Nuclear Media....Pages 405-405
Instantons in QCD....Pages 453-464
Wigner Distribution for the Harmonic Oscillator within the Theory of Open Quantum Systems....Pages 465-465
The Quantum Deformation of su(2) into su(1,1) and the Potential Picture....Pages 467-478
Potentials in the Algebraic Scattering Theory....Pages 479-480
Jahn-Teller Distorted Excited States of the C60 Cluster....Pages 481-482
New Classes of Poles and Resonant States....Pages 483-484
Classical Phase Space Structure Induced by Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking....Pages 485-486
Back Matter....Pages 487-488
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