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Nuclear molecules are analogous to ordinary electronic molecules. Valence nucleons are circling nuclear cores and thus bind them. They appear in collisions of nuclei on nuclei, and in fission and fusion processes. Here a lively field of research has developed over the past 20 years. Nuclear Molecules are the strongest deformed nuclear complexes and play an important role in nuclear structure (cluster) physics. They are also of considerable interest for the synthesis of elements in astrophysics (cosmology). Most of the various nuclear molecular phenomena are discussed.
This book is the first monograph exclusively written to cover the theoretical aspects of nuclear molecular phenomena in heavy ion collisions. The experimental evidence is presented and confronted with theory.
Contents:
- Introduction
- A Brief Survey of Elementary Experimental Data
- Theoretical Bases for Nuclear Molecules
- Nucleus-Nucleus Interaction Potentials
- Excitation Mechanisms and Models for Molecular Collective States
- Formation and Decay Widths of Nuclear Molecular Configurations
- General Theory of Heavy-Ion Collisions
- Approximate Methods for Heavy-Ion Collisions
- Collective Molecular States and Coupled Channels Calculations
- Reaction Theory in the Molecular Particle-Core Model
- Molecular Single-Particle Configurations and the Nuclear Landau-Zenger Effect
- Microscopic Molecular Reaction Theory in a Particle-Hole Formalism
- Three-Cluster Nuclear Molecules and Cluster Transfer in Heavy-Ion Reactions
- Fragmentation Theory and Collective Mass Transfer
- Speculative Molecular Effects
Readership: Graduate students and active researchers interested in nuclear and heavy ion physics and nuclear astrophysics.
