Narrow Results

The superfluid model of large amplitude nuclear motion allows for a unified description of the variety of tunneling phenomena found in nuclear physics. The model will be shown to provide a quantitative account of exotic decay, of the depopulation of superdeformed bands, of the restoration of the parity in octupole deformed nuclei, of the decay of K-isomers in rapidly rotating nuclei and of the energy of coexistence for spherical and deformed states in light and medium heavy nuclei as well as the energy systematics of low-lying surface vibrations in nuclei. It will be concluded that plastic nuclear behaviour is intimately connected with nuclear superfluid tunneling. The model is also applied to the Coulomb explosion of sodium metal clusters.

The following sections are included:

• Index

The following sections are included:

• Dedication

• Preface

• Acknowledgments

• Contents

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface
• The Structure of Light Nuclei
• Microphysics in the Cosmos
• Reactions of Halo States: Coulomb Excitations
• Reactions and Beta Decay of Halo States
• Discovery of the Heaviest Elements
• Soft and Giant Multipole States in Nuclei Near Drip Lines
• Properties of Collective States in Magic Nuclei Far from Stability
• Masses and Structure of Exotic Nuclei
• Break-up of Halo States Induced by Nuclear Interactions
• Direct Mass Measurements Far from Stability — Where Are We Today?
• Halo States and Exotic Decay Modes in Light Nuclei
• Direct-Reaction Spectroscopy on Very Neutron-Rich Nuclei
• Heavy Nuclei Beyond the Proton Drip Line
• Nuclear Reactions and the Production of Exotic Beams
• Mass and Lifetime Measurements of Stored Relativistic Nuclei
• Neutron Breakup with Halo Nuclei
• What Can We Learn from Doppler Broadened Gamma Lines from the Decay of ¹¹Li?
• The ¹⁸F(p, α)¹⁵O Reaction Rate Down to the Astrophysical Region
• The μs-Isomers from Heavy-Ion Fragmentation — Towards the Studies of Nuclear States Beyond the Drip Lines
• Investigation of Nuclear Fission by Use of Secondary Beams
• Light Neutron-Rich Nuclei as a Test of Effective N–N Interactions
• Coulomb Excitation Using Fast Radioactive Beams
• Exploratory Coupled Channels Calculations for Loosely Bound Carbon Isotopes
• Probing the Collectivity of Warm Rotating Nuclei with Fluctuation Techniques
• List of participants as provided by the Erice Centre