Ebook: Exciting Interdisciplinary Physics: Quarks and Gluons / Atomic Nuclei / Relativity and Cosmology / Biological Systems

Nuclear physics is an exciting, broadly faceted field. It spans a wide range of topics, reaching from nuclear structure physics to high-energy physics, astrophysics and medical physics (heavy ion tumor therapy). New developments are presented in this volume and the
status of research is reviewed. A major focus is put on nuclear structure physics, dealing with superheavy elements and with various forms of exotic nuclei: strange nuclei, very neutron rich nuclei, nuclei of antimatter. Also quantum electrodynamics of strong fields is addressed, which is linked to the occurrence of giant nuclear systems in, e.g., U+U collisions. At high energies nuclear physics joins with elementary particle physics. Various chapters address the theory of
elementary matter at high densities and temperature, in particular the quark gluon plasma which is predicted by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) to occur in high-energy heavy ion collisions. In the field of nuclear
astrophysics, the properties of neutron stars and quark stars are discussed. A topic which transcends nuclear physics is discussed in two chapters: The proposed pseudo-complex extension of Einstein's General Relativity leads to the prediction that there are no black
holes and that big bang cosmology has to be revised. Finally, the interdisciplinary nature of this volume is further accentuated by chapters on protein folding and on magnetoreception in birds and many other animals.

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Nuclear physics is an exciting, broadly faceted field. It spans a wide range of topics, reaching from nuclear structure physics to high-energy physics, astrophysics and medical physics (heavy ion tumor therapy). New developments are presented in this volume and the
status of research is reviewed. A major focus is put on nuclear structure physics, dealing with superheavy elements and with various forms of exotic nuclei: strange nuclei, very neutron rich nuclei, nuclei of antimatter. Also quantum electrodynamics of strong fields is addressed, which is linked to the occurrence of giant nuclear systems in, e.g., U+U collisions. At high energies nuclear physics joins with elementary particle physics. Various chapters address the theory of
elementary matter at high densities and temperature, in particular the quark gluon plasma which is predicted by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) to occur in high-energy heavy ion collisions. In the field of nuclear
astrophysics, the properties of neutron stars and quark stars are discussed. A topic which transcends nuclear physics is discussed in two chapters: The proposed pseudocomplex extension of Einstein's General Relativity leads to the prediction that there are no black
holes and that big bang cosmology has to be revised. Finally, the interdisciplinary nature of this volume is further accentuated by chapters on protein folding and on magnetoreception in birds and many
other animals.

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Nuclear physics is an exciting, broadly faceted field. It spans a wide range of topics, reaching from nuclear structure physics to high-energy physics, astrophysics and medical physics (heavy ion tumor therapy). New developments are presented in this volume and the
status of research is reviewed. A major focus is put on nuclear structure physics, dealing with superheavy elements and with various forms of exotic nuclei: strange nuclei, very neutron rich nuclei, nuclei of antimatter. Also quantum electrodynamics of strong fields is addressed, which is linked to the occurrence of giant nuclear systems in, e.g., U+U collisions. At high energies nuclear physics joins with elementary particle physics. Various chapters address the theory of
elementary matter at high densities and temperature, in particular the quark gluon plasma which is predicted by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) to occur in high-energy heavy ion collisions. In the field of nuclear
astrophysics, the properties of neutron stars and quark stars are discussed. A topic which transcends nuclear physics is discussed in two chapters: The proposed pseudocomplex extension of Einstein's General Relativity leads to the prediction that there are no black
holes and that big bang cosmology has to be revised. Finally, the interdisciplinary nature of this volume is further accentuated by chapters on protein folding and on magnetoreception in birds and many
other animals.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Coupled-Channel Effects in Collisions Between Heavy Ions Near the Coulomb Barrier....Pages 105-118
Collinear Cluster Tri-Partition as a Probe of Clustering in Heavy Nuclei....Pages 119-128
Pairing Influence in Binary Nuclear Systems....Pages 129-137
Chiral Symmetry in Real Nuclei....Pages 139-148
High Energy-Resolution Experiments with the K600 Magnetic Spectrometer at Intermediate Energies....Pages 149-161
Activities at iThemba LABS Cyclotron Facilities....Pages 163-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-185
New Forms of High Energy Density Matter....Pages 187-187
Antinuclei Produced in Relativistic Collisions: Results and Expectations....Pages 189-198
RHIC and LHC Phenomena with a Unified Parton Transport....Pages 199-209
The QGP Phase in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions....Pages 211-224
Recent HBT Results from a Hybrid Transport Approach to Heavy Ion Reactions....Pages 225-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-242
Exciting Physics: Superheavy, Superneutronic, Superstrange Nuclear Clusters....Pages 1-1
Overview and Perspectives of SHE Research at GSI SHIP....Pages 3-21
Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms Induced by Heavy Ions....Pages 23-32
Search for Superheavy Elements in Nature (Experimental Approach)....Pages 33-42
Superheavies: Short-Term Experiments and Far-Reaching Designs....Pages 43-54
Superheavy Nuclei: Decay and Stability....Pages 55-67
Stability Peninsulas at the Neutron Drip Line....Pages 69-79
Unexpected Strong Decay Mode of Superheavy Nuclei....Pages 81-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-101
Energy Loss of Heavy Quarks—A Signal of Plasma Properties....Pages 187-187
The Thermal Model and the Tsallis Distribution at the Large Hadron Collider....Pages 243-251
The Mini Bang and the Big Bang: From Collider to Cosmology....Pages 253-260
From d-Bars to Antimatter- and Hyperclusters....Pages 261-273
Front Matter....Pages 275-289
Astronomical Tests of General Relativity and the Pseudo-Complex Theory....Pages 291-291
Black Holes or Gray Stars? That’s the Question: Pseudo-Complex General Relativity....Pages 293-312
Structure and Cooling of Neutron and Hybrid Stars....Pages 313-321
Nuclei in Strongly Magnetised Neutron Star Crusts....Pages 323-332
Generation Model of Particle Physics and the Parity of the Neutral Pion....Pages 333-343
Fundamental Neutrinos Properties....Pages 345-355
Front Matter....Pages 357-366
Crystalline Undulator: Current Status and Perspectives....Pages 367-395
Crystals, Critical Fields, Collision Points, and a QED Analogue of Hawking Radiation....Pages 397-397
QED Calculations on Highly Charged Ions, Using a Unified MBPT-QED Approach....Pages 399-409
Supercritical QED and Time-Delayed Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 411-423
Nuclear Muon Capture in Hydrogen Isotopes....Pages 425-437
A Safari Through Density Functional Theory....Pages 439-451
Front Matter....Pages 453-463
Light-Activated Magnetic Compass in Birds....Pages 465-478
Statistical Mechanical Theory of Protein Folding in Water Environment ....Pages 479-479
Back Matter....Pages 481-492
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