Frontier Topics in Nuclear Physics

Present and Future of Nuclear Physics; Introductory Lecture. Cluster Decay, Fission and Fusion: Cluster Radioactivity; P.B. Price. Recent Advances in Cluster Radioactivities; D.N. Poenaru, W. Greiner. Heavy Elements: Multinucleon Transfer Reactions-An Alternative Path to Heavy Element Synthesis; M.T. Magda. Microscopic and Semi-microscopic Approach to the Properties of Transactinide Nuclei; L. Bitaud, et al. Nuclear Structure: On the Origin of Rotations and Vibrations in Atomic Nuclei; J.P. Draayer, et al. Particle-rotor Model Description of Deformed Nuclei; A. Covello, et al. Weak Interaction and Double Beta Decay: Nuclear Aspects of Double Beta Decay; S. Stoica. A New Look to the Nuclear Structure Calculations of the PNC Cases in A=1821 Nuclei; M. Horoi. Nuclear Astrophysics: Recent Topics from Nuclear Reactions in the Energies Ranging from keV to GeV; K. Kubo. Heavy Ion Collisions: Processes in Peripheral Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions; M. Greiner, et al. Miscellaneous Topics: Gamma and Meson Production by Cherenkovlike Effects in Nuclear Media; W. Stocker, D.B. Ion. 58 additional articles. Index.