Nuclear physics

The proceedings contain the lectures and contributions given at the workshop on double-beta decay and related topics, which was held at the ETC* (European Centre for Theoretical Studies), Trento, Italy, between April 24 and May 5, 1995.

The lectures reported in these proceedings were given in the Workshop on Nuclear Reactors - Physics, Design and Safety held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste in 1994 by experts from leading international research institutions and industries.

The proceedings of the conference include recent results of experimental and theoretical research on the following topics: reaction dynamics, fusion-fission phenomena, neutron physics, deformed shells, nuclear spectroscopy, and exotic nuclei.

The topic of the internal spin structure of the nucleon has become an unusually active subfield of particle and nuclear physics, together with the relevant technologies.

These proceedings comprise the contents of a major international conference on Perspectives of the Interacting Boson Model.

This seminar focuses on recent achievements and new goals of nuclear structure in both experiment and theory.

This book of proceedings contains contributions of about 30 prominent scientists who were or are associated with the awardee, Prof J B Natowitz, and are working in the field of heavy-ion reactions.

The structure of matter is intimately related to the fundamental role played by many-fermion systems.

This volume presents the most updated research reviews on the topics of QCD, Lightcone Quantization and Hadron Phenomenology.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the XVIII International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions.

Madam Chien Shiung Wu, the great physicist of 20th century physics, passed away in February 1997.

This book focuses on a new development of spin giant resonances in nuclei.

The recent rapid innovations in supercomputer technology are changing the concepts of numerical calculations employed in solving a wide variety of nuclear many-body problems.

This book presents recent results on experimental and theoretical studies of the interaction of heavy ions with nuclei at low and intermediate energies: the dynamics of fusion and decay of complex nuclear systems, the synthesis of superheavy elements, the synthesis and properties of exotic nuclei close to the proton and neutron driplines, nuclear fission, nuclear structure, and reactions with stable and radioactive ion beams.

The frontiers of beam research point to increasingly high energy, greater brightness and lower emittance beams with ever-increasing particle species.

Effective field theory (EFT), a technique used extensively in particle physics, provides a framework for systematically describing nuclear systems in a way consistent with quantum chromodynamics, the underlying theory of strong interactions.

The proceedings of the Lake Louise Winter Institute for 1998 deal with strong interactions.

The Predeal International Summer School, held at the Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania, is a prestigious scientific event.

The Second Workshop on Electronuclear Physics with Internal Targets and the Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid (BLAST) took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 1998.

CRIS (Catania Relativistic Ion Studies) is a recently established series of topical conferences held every two years in the Catania area, in Italy.

This book provides an overview of the current research and future prospects in a variety of important areas in nuclear physics by leaders in their respective areas.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Physics with an Electron-Polarized Ion Collider (EPIC-99), jointly sponsored by the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and Nuclear Theory Center, and the Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington.

This volume discusses theoretical and experimental activities in the investigation of nucleon and nuclear structure by electromagnetic and hadronic probes at intermediate and high energies.

The method of effective field theory (EFT) is ideally suited to deal with physical systems containing separate energy scales.

This book presents the latest results of experimental and theoretical studies of fission and fusion-fission dynamics from low to intermediate energies.

From August to September 1998, a group of 75 physicists from 52 laboratories in 15 countries met in Erice, Italy, for the 36th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics.

The Second International Conference on Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei continued the emphasis on fission models, fission processes, properties of neutron-rich nuclei and new directions.

It is known that nuclear shells play a particularly important role in the collective motion of nuclear matter and, as a consequence, determine the structure of nuclei, nuclear dynamics, nuclear decay models, etc.

The interest in understanding the physical world that we live in, the origin of its formation and evolution, is reflected in the world-wide activities in Europe, the USA and Japan to set up powerful research facilities providing beams of radioactive nuclei of various kinds, and beams of extremely large energies.

This volume contains lectures on several topics of great current relevance in strong interaction physics.

This volume concentrates on three main areas of current research in high energy physics: (1) multiparticle and diffractive production in perturbative and nonperturbative QCD, (2) confinement-deconfinement mechanism and the RHIC physics, and (3) interface between high-energy collisions and cosmic-ray/astro-physics.

Professor Vadim Soloviev, an outstanding Russian nuclear theorist, was the founder of the Dubna school of nuclear structure.

This volume presents a selection of current developments in quantum chromodynamics, with some emphasis on the borderline between the perturbative and the nonperturbative regime.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 'Workshop on Lightcone QCD and Nonperturbative Hadron Physics', held in Adelaide, Australia, in December 1999.

This book constitutes the proceedings of a workshop on 'Exclusive and Semi-exclusive Processes at High Momentum Transfer', sponsored by the Institute for Nuclear Theory (Seattle) and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Laboratory).

This volume focusses on four main topics: structure functions, tests of quantum chromodynamics, physics at the highest Q2 and p2T, and high energy scattering and diffraction.

The conference NSTAR 2000 was part of a series of conferences and workshops that began in New York in 1988.

This proceedings volume brings together the contributions of experts from different fields within the nuclear physics community.

The quark confinement mechanism is one of the most difficult problems in particle physics, and is listed as the 7 difficult mathematical problems of the new millennium.

This book represents the proceedings of a symposium held during the centennial meeting of the American Physical Society.

The study of QCD in the confinement regime poses some of the most difficult problems of fundamental physics at present.

This volume provides the up-to-date information behind nuclear reactor calculations, focusing on a key role of nuclear reaction data, down to the physics of nuclear interactions.

This proceedings volume presents current developments in nuclear physics which are driven by new experimental facilities (e.

Charmonium suppression is a promising signal of quark-gluon plasma.

The Jahn-Teller effect is a consequence of the electron-phonon coupling in high symmetry systems.

This volume encompasses current issues in the physics of baryons, including their spectroscopy and quark-gluon substructure, and investigations with electroweak and strong interacting probes.

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the various pictures of color confinement and its consequences on the properties of hadrons.

The book centers mainly on the geometrical ideas on hadron scattering as generated by C-N Yang and his collaborators.

These proceedings are the fifth in the series of International Conferences covering fission and properties of neutron-rich nuclei, which are at the forefront of nuclear research.