Nuclear physics

In this volume, the following topics are discussed: study of intermediate and low energy heavy ion collisions, nuclear structure at high spin, nuclei far from stability, radioactive ion beam physics and development of experimental facilities.

Neutrinos play a key role in many areas of particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics.

This book presents a recent survey of the advances in hadron physics.

This book contains the proceedings of the Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium.

The history of spin in general, and of the nucleon spin structure in particular, has been full of surprises.

The Cortona Conference is a biennial meeting of all Italian groups from about 20 universities who are active in theoretical nuclear physics.

This book deals with the properties and fusion dynamics of very heavy nuclei.

Nuclear structure physics is undergoing a major revival, full of activities and excitement.

Low energy neutron beams are used to address many questions in nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics.

In this volume, the main results of the last sixty years of research in nuclear fission are summarized, showing how ideas advanced from the beginning, for nuclei have also found useful applications in the new area of atomic clusters.

Spin physics is one of the most important and active areas of theoretical/experimental nuclear physics.

The unique role of strangeness in nuclear physics has recently attracted much attention, from both the theoretical and experimental viewpoints.

Quantum many-body theory as a discipline in its own right dates largely from the 1950's.

The main purpose of this book is to present, in a comprehensive and progressive way, the appearance of universal limit probability laws in physics, and their connection with the recently developed scaling theory of fluctuations.

This proceedings volume includes all the invited talks and oral presentations at the International Symposium on Clustering Aspects of Quantum Many-Body Systems, 12-14 November 2001, Kyoto, Japan.

This book is a collection of talks presented at the International Symposium on Exotic Nuclei, held at Lake Baikal, Russia, on 24 - 28 July 2001.

This book covers the following topics: (1) meson and hadron production by real and virtual photon interaction with nucleons and nuclei; (2) astrophysical studies via photoreactions and hadron reactions; (3) new technologies for the electromagnetic probes and detector development; (4) nuclear structure studies with electromagnetic probes; (5) fundamental symmetries with electromagnetic probes and related problems.

This is a review monograph on quark-gluon plasma (QGP).

The generalization of QCD from three to NC colors, developed in 1974 by Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft, has proved to be an extraordinarily useful and robust theoretical extension for studying the behavior of strong interaction physics.

The NEWS 99 international symposium discusses symmetries in electroweak processes in nuclei.

The aim of the DANF conference was to present and discuss new theoretical and experimental results in the field of nuclear fission dynamics.

This volume outlines the exciting new opportunities in hadron physics which have been created by the Japan Hadron Facility (JHF), a major joint initiative between KEK and JAERI.

This volume deals with both the experimental and theoretical aspects of meson physics; in particular, it presents new results.

This book offers the unique possibility of tackling the problem of hadronic deconfinement from different perspectives.

The physics of nuclear collective motion was pioneered by A Bohr and B R Mottelson 50 years ago.

The proceedings of the 4th Italy-Japan Symposium on Heavy Ion Physics cover the following fields of nuclear physics: heavy ion nuclear reactions; nuclei under extreme conditions; nuclear astrophysics; photon detectors and physics; technology of RI beams and experimental instrumentation; application of RI beams.

This book deals with recent topics in the field of ion beam cooling.

This book is a tribute to the life and work of J Q Chen.

The spallation neutron source (SNS) being built at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will be by far the highest flux pulsed source of epithermal neutrons in the world when it comes on line in 2006.

This book focuses on the physics of exclusive processes at high momentum transfer and their description in terms of generalized parton distributions, perturbative QCD, and relativistic quark models.

This volume contains the invited talks and contributed papers presented at the workshop on "e;Testing QCD Through Spin Observables in Nuclear Targets"e;, held at the University of Virginia in April 2002.

This book focuses on current topics in astronomy, astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics.

The 9th Conference on Problems in Theoretical Nuclear Physics was organized as part of the project "e;Theoretical Physics of Nuclei and Many-Body Systems"e; involving 17 Italian universities and sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Research and University.

This volume contains the proceedings of the third meeting in the series of symposia and workshops on nuclear medium effects.

Hadronic atoms provide a unique laboratory for studying hadronic interactions essentially at threshold.

This volume is a collection of invited talks, oral contributions and poster contributions devoted to advances in gamma-ray spectroscopy of various capture reactions.

This volume contains the proceedings of the GDH 2002 symposium.

This book deals with the latest developments in the area of three-quark systems.

This book presents the state of the art in reactor dosimetry as applied to nuclear power plants and to high performance research reactors, accelerator-driven systems and spallation sources.

This symposium was held in honour of Yuri Oganessian for his laurea honoris causa conferred by the University of Messina, and to celebrate Giorgio Giardina's 60th birthday.

This book presents more than 100 papers devoted to the understanding of fission processes and neutron-rich nuclei.

This book contains a wide spectrum of articles which report the current research progress in topics concerning the dynamics of multiparticle production in high energy collision processes, with emphasis on nonperturbative aspects of QCD.

In August/September 2002, a group of 78 physicists from 50 laboratories in 17 countries met in Erice, Italy, to participate in the 40th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics.

The symposium "e;Computational and Group-Theoretical Methods in Nuclear Physics"e; was organized to celebrate the 60th birthday of Jerry P Draayer, who is Professor of Physics, Lousiana State University, and President of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA).

This book constitutes the proceedings of a workshop which originated from a discussion with Professor A Zichichi in March 2001.

This invaluable book is an extensive set of lecture notes on various aspects of non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics - the fundamental theory of strong interaction on which nuclear and hadronic physics is based.

This book deals with the theory and experiment of the elementary process of bremsstrahlung, where photons are detected in coincidence with decelerated outgoing electrons.

The book explains how magnetized plasmas self-organize in states of electromagnetic turbulence that transports particles and energy out of the core plasma faster than anticipated by the fusion scientists designing magnetic confinement systems in the 20th century.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the fifth in a series of meetings dealing with the nuclear fission process, mainly at low excitation energy.

This volume contains lectures presented at the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (HUGS at CEBAF) Summer Schools.