Frontiers In Nuclear Structure Astrophysics And Reactions Finustar 3

The proceedings of this conference should be of interest to nuclear physicists (researchers, university and college professors, graduate and post-graduate students). FINUSTAR 3 covered a wide spectrum of research activities in nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics and nuclear reactions that due to common instrumentation and research facilities have been overlapping strongly over the last years. The topics in nuclear structure, astrophysics and reactions, experimental and theoretical, covered by FINUSTAR 3 are as follows: Nuclear structure at the extremes Collective phenomena and phase transitions in nuclei Exotic excitations Synthesis and structure of the heaviest elements Nuclear masses and ground state properties Ab-initio calculations and the shell model Mean field theories, cluster models and molecular dynamics Scattering and reaction dynamics at low and intermediate energies Nuclear reactions off stability and indirect methods Neutrinos in nuclear astrophysics and astro-particle physics Nuclear astrophysics (Big-Bang, s-, r- and p-process & nuclide production) Radioactive and exotic relativistic beams Facilities and instrumentation for the future

This book aims to cover a wide spectrum of research activities, both theoretical and experimental, in nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics and nuclear reactions. Topics included are: nuclear structure under extreme conditions; collective phenomena and phase transitions; ground-state properties and synthesis of the heaviest elements; advances in mean field theories; modern shell model; cluster models and molecular dynamics; achievements in weak-interaction processes; nucleon scattering and more.

Crete, Greece, 10-14 September 2007

A fundamental question in contemporary astrophysics is the origin of the elements. Cosmochemistry seeks to answer when, how and where the chemical elements arose. Quantitative answers to these fundamental questions require a multi-disciplinary approach involving stellar evolution, explosive nucleosynthesis and nuclear reactions in different astrophysical environments. There remain, however, many outstanding problems and cosmochemistry remains a fertile area of research. This book is among the first in recent times to put together the essentials of cosmochemistry, combining contributions from leading astrophysicists in the field. The chapters have been organized to provide a clear description of the fundamentals, an introduction to modern techniques such as computational modelling, and glimpses of outstanding issues.

This volume contains papers presented at the 6th International Workshop on Application of Lasers in Atomic Nuclei Research, LASER 2006, held in Poznan, Poland, May 29-June 01, 2006. Researchers and PhD students interested in recent results in the nuclear structure investigation by laser spectroscopy, the progress of the experimental technique and the future developments in the field will find this volume indispensable.

This book highlights a major advance in low-energy scattering theory: the Multi-Channel Algebraic Scattering (MCAS) theory, which represents an attempt to unify structure and reaction theory. It solves the Lippmann–Schwinger equations for low-energy nucleon-nucleus and alpha-nucleus scattering in momentum space, allowing both the bound and scattering states in the compound nucleus formed to be described. Results of various cases are presented and discussed.

This book covers the latest developments in synthesizing super-heavy elements at RIKEN, GSI, and GANIL as well as in theories of fusion-fission dynamics. It also examines the latest results in the studies of nuclei far from stability and the clustering phenomena in nuclei, including the present status and future prospects of European and Japanese RIB facilities. In addition, the book details the latest developments in nuclei astrophysics.

Direct reactions are powerful probes for studying the atomic nucleus. Modern direct reaction studies are illuminating both the fundamental nature of the nucleus and its role in nucleosynthetic processes occurring in the cosmos. This report covers experiments using knockout reactions on neutron-deficient fragmentation beams, transfer reactions on fission fragment beams, and theoretical sensitivity studies relating to the astrophysical r-process. Results from experiments on 108,106Sn at the NSCL, and on 131Sn at HRIBF are presented as well as the results from the nucleosynthesis study.