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Eur. Phys. J. A Vol. 15 No. 1-2

The European Physical Journal A

Vol. 15 No. 1-2 (September-October 2002)

Present knowledge of atomic masses p. 1
A.H. Wapstra and G. Audi
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Direct mass measurements of exotic nuclei p. 7
C. Scheidenberger
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A Hartree-Fock nuclear mass formula p. 13
J.M. Pearson, S. Goriely and M. Samyn
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Accurate mass measurements of very short-lived nuclei - Prerequisites for high-accuracy investigations of superallowed $\mth{\beta}$ -decays p. 17
F. Herfurth, A. Kellerbauer, F. Ames, G. Audi, D. Beck, K. Blaum, G. Bollen, O. Engels, H.-J. Kluge, D. Lunney, R.B. Moore, M. Oinonen, E. Sauvan, C. Scheidenberger, S. Schwarz, G. Sikler, C. Weber and the ISOLDE Collaboration
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Nuclear ground-state properties from mean-field calculations p. 21
J. Dobaczewski, W. Nazarewicz and M.V. Stoitsov
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Nuclear-matter distributions of halo nuclei from elastic proton scattering in inverse kinematics p. 27
P. Egelhof, G.D. Alkhazov, M.N. Andronenko, A. Bauchet, A.V. Dobrovolsky, S. Fritz, G.E. Gavrilov, H. Geissel, C. Gross, A.V. Khanzadeev, G.A. Korolev, G. Kraus, A.A. Lobodenko, G. Münzenberg, M. Mutterer, S.R. Neumaier, T. Schäfer, C. Scheidenberger, D.M. Seliverstov, N.A. Timofeev, A.A. Vorobyov and V.I. Yatsoura
Abstract | PDF file (246 KB)

Lasers in nuclear physics -A review p. 35
R. Neugart
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The measurement of the electronic g-factor in hydrogen-like ions -A promising tool for determining fundamental and nuclear constants p. 41
T. Beier, H. Häffner, N. Hermanspahn, S. Djekic, H.-J. Kluge, W. Quint, S. Stahl, T. Valenzuela, J. Verdú and G. Werth
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First results from laser spectroscopy on bunched radioactive beams from the JYFL ion-beam cooler p. 45
P. Campbell, A. Nieminen, J. Billowes, P. Dendooven, K.T. Flanagan, D.H. Forest, Yu.P. Gangrsky, J.A.R. Griffith, J. Huikari, A. Jokinen, I.D. Moore, R. Moore, H.L. Thayer, G. Tungate, S.G. Zemlyanoi and J. Äystö
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Charge radius change in the heavy tin isotopes until $\mth$ from laser spectroscopy p. 49
F. Le Blanc, L. Cabaret, J.E. Crawford, S. Essabaa, V. Fedoseyev, W. Geithner, J. Genevey, M. Girod, R. Horn, G. Huber, S. Kappertz, J. Lassen, J.K.P. Lee, G. Le Scornet, V. Mishin, R. Neugart, J. Obert, J. Oms, A. Ouchrif, S. Peru, J. Pinard, H. Ravn, B. Roussière, J. Sauvage, D. Verney and the Isolde Collaboration
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Stars from birth to death: Laboratories for exotic nuclei? p. 53
W. Hillebrandt
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Nuclear-reaction rates in the thermonuclear runaway phase of accreting neutron stars p. 59
M. Wiescher, V. Barnard, J.L. Fisker, J. Görres, K. Langanke, G. Martinez-Pinedo, F. Rembges, H. Schatz and F.K. Thielemann
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Coulomb breakup of $\chem$ and the flux of $\chem$ neutrinos from the Sun p. 65
B. Davids, S.M. Austin, D. Bazin, H. Esbensen, B.M. Sherrill, I.J. Thompson and J.A. Tostevin
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Asymptotic normalization coefficients in nuclear astrophysics and structure p. 69
C.A. Gagliardi, A. Azhari, V. Burjan, F. Carstoiu, V. Kroha, A.M. Mukhamedzhanov, A. Sattarov, X. Tang, L. Trache and R.E. Tribble
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Beta-decay and exotic nuclei p. 75
K. Riisager
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New experimental results in proton radioactivity p. 81
K.P. Rykaczewski
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New results on proton emission from odd-odd nuclei p. 85
H. Mahmud, C.N. Davids, P.J. Woods, T. Davinson, A. Heinz, J.J. Ressler, K. Schmidt, D. Seweryniak, J. Shergur, A.A. Sonzogni and W.B. Walters
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New developments in the theory of proton radioactivity p. 89
E. Maglione and L.S. Ferreira
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Probing shell structure in neutron-rich nuclei with in-beam $\mth{\gamma}$ -spectroscopy p. 93
F. Azaiez, M. Belleguic, D. Sohler, M. Stanoiu, Zs. Dombrádi, O. Sorlin, J. Timár, F. Amorini, D. Baiborodin, A. Bauchet, F. Becker, C. Borcea, C. Bourgeois, Z. Dlouhy, C. Donzaud, J. Duprat, D. Guillemaud-Mueller, F. Ibrahim, M.J. Lopez, R. Lucas, S.M. Lukyanov, V. Maslov, J. Mrazek, C. Moore, F. Nowacki, B.M. Nyakó, Yu.-E. Penionzhkevich, M.G. Saint-Laurent, F. Sarazin, J.A. Scarpaci, G. Sletten, C. Stodel, M. Taylor, C. Theisen and G. Voltolini
Abstract | PDF file (120 KB)

Spectroscopy of nuclei around $\mth$ with direct reactions p. 99
T. Motobayashi
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Production of low- and high-energy radioactive-ion beams by fragmentation p. 105
D.J. Morrissey
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Haloes and clustering in light, neutron-rich nuclei p. 109
N.A. Orr
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Structure and reactions of halo nuclei: An entangled approach p. 115
J.S. Al-Khalili
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Studies with one- and two-proton drip line nuclei p. 121
B. Blank
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Three-body decays of light nuclei: $\chem$ , $\chem$ , $\chem$ , $\chemO}$ , $\chemNe}$ , and $\chem}$ Ne p. 125
L.V. Grigorenko, R.C. Johnson, I.G. Mukha, I.J. Thompson and M.V. Zhukov
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Molecular structure of nuclei p. 131
H. Horiuchi
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Correlated emission of three $\mth{\alpha}$ -particles in the $\mth{\beta}$ -decay of $\chemN}$ p. 135
H.O.U. Fynbo, Y. Prezado, J. Äystö, U.C. Bergmann, M.J.G. Borge, P. Dendooven, W. Huang, J. Huikari, H. Jeppesen, P. Jones, B. Jonson, M. Meister, G. Nyman, M. Oinonen, K. Riisager, O. Tengblad, I.S. Vogelius, Y. Wang, L. Weissman and K.W. Rolander
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Decay properties of $\mth{N\simeq Z}$ nuclei p. 139
E. Roeckl
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Large-scale shell model calculations for exotic nuclei p. 145
E. Caurier, F. Nowacki and A. Poves
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Frontiers and challenges of nuclear shell model p. 151
T. Otsuka, Y. Utsuno, R. Fujimoto, B.A. Brown, M. Honma and T. Mizusaki
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Shape coexistence and the $\mth$ shell closure far from stability by inelastic scattering p. 157
W. Mittig, H. Savajols, D. Baiborodin, J.M. Casandjian, C.E. Demonchy, P. Roussel-Chomaz, F. Sarazin, Z. Dlouhý, J. Mrazek, A.V. Belozyorov, S.M. Lukyanov, Y.E. Penionzhkevich, N. Alamanos, A. Drouart, A. Gillibert, C. Jouanne, V. Lapoux, E. Pollacco, A. Korichi and J.A. Scarpaci
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High-spin proton and alpha-particle emission as probes for nuclear structure p. 161
D. Rudolph
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The structure and spectroscopy of neutron-rich nuclei p. 167
J.L. Durell
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Physics with heavy neutron-rich RIBs at the HRIBF p. 171
D.C. Radford, C. Baktash, A. Galindo-Uribarri, C.J. Gross, T.A. Lewis, P.E. Mueller, P.A. Hausladen, D. Shapira, D.W. Stracener, C.-H. Yu, B. Fuentes, E. Padilla, D.J. Hartley, C.J. Barton, M. Caprio and N.V. Zamfir
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New insights into neutron-rich nuclei at high spin p. 175
J.H. Hamilton, A.V. Ramayya, J.K. Hwang, X.Y. Luo, J.O. Rasmussen, E.F. Jones, X.Q. Zhang, S.J. Zhu, P.M. Gore, T.N. Ginter, I.Y. Lee, R.V.F. Janssens, I. Ahmed, J.D. Cole, W. Greiner, G. Ter-Akopian and Yu. Oganessian
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The neutron and proton two-particle nucleus $\chemSb}$ : New low-spin states observed in the decay of $\chemSn}$ and an estimate of the energy of the $\mth$ isomer p. 181
A. Korgul, H. Mach, B. Fogelberg, W. Urban, W. Kurcewicz, T. Rzaca-Urban, P. Hoff, H. Gausemel, J. Galy, J.L. Durell, W.R. Phillips, A.G. Smith, B.J. Varley, N. Schulz, I. Ahmad, L.R. Morss, M. Górska, V.I. Isakov, K.I. Erokhina, J. Blomqvist, F. Andreozzi, F. Coraggio, A. Covello and A. Gargano
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Decay studies of $\mth{N\approx Z}$ nuclei from $\chemSr}$ to $\chemSn}$ p. 185
T. Faestermann, R. Schneider, A. Stolz, K. Sümmerer, E. Wefers, J. Friese, H. Geissel, M. Hellström, P. Kienle, H.-J. Körner, M. Mineva, M. Münch, G. Münzenberg, C. Schlegel, K. Schmidt, P. Thirolf, H. Weick and K. Zeitelhack
Abstract | PDF file (187 KB)

In-beam studies of very neutron-deficient heavy nuclei p. 189
R. Julin, P.T. Greenlees, K. Helariutta, P. Jones, S. Juutinen, A.-P. Leppänen, H. Kankaanpää, A. Keenan, H. Kettunen, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Leino, M. Muikku, P. Nieminen, J. Pakarinen, P. Rahkila, J. Uusitalo, D.T. Joss, S.J. Williams, D.G. Jenkins, N.-S. Kelsall, R. Wadsworth, K. Hauschild, A. Hürstel, W. Korten, Y. Le Coz, A.N. Andreyev, P. Van Duppen, M. Huyse, K. Van de Vel, C.J. Moore, C.D. O'Leary, R.D. Page, M.J. Taylor, W. Reviol and M.B. Smith
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Status and prospects of synthesizing superheavy elements p. 195
S. Hofmann
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Synthesis of superheavy nuclei in the reactions of $\chemPu}$ and $\chemCm}$ with $\chemCa}$ p. 201
Yu.Ts. Oganessian, V.K. Utyonkov, Yu.V. Lobanov, F.Sh. Abdullin, A.N. Polyakov, I.V. Shirokovsky, Yu.S. Tsyganov, G.G. Gulbekian, S.L. Bogomolov, B.N. Gikal, A.N. Mezentsev, S. Iliev, V.G. Subbotin, A.M. Sukhov, O.V. Ivanov, G.V. Buklanov, K. Subotic, A.A. Voinov, M.G. Itkis, K.J. Moody, J.F. Wild, N.J. Stoyer, M.A. Stoyer, R.W. Lougheed and C.A. Laue
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In-beam spectroscopy of $\chemNo}$ p. 205
R.-D. Herzberg, N. Amzal, J.E. Bastin, F. Becker, P.M.T. Brew, P.A. Butler, A.J.C. Chewter, J.F.C. Cocks, O. Dorvaux, K. Eskola, J. Gerl, P.T. Greenlees, N.J. Hammond, K. Hauschild, K. Helariutta, F. Heßberger, M. Houry, A. Hürstel, R.D. Humphreys, G.D. Jones, P.M. Jones, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, H. Kankaanpää, H. Kettunen, T.L. Khoo, W. Korten, P. Kuusiniemi, Y. Le Coz, M. Leino, A.P. Leppänen C.J. Lister, R. Lucas, M. Muikku, P. Nieminen, R.D. Page, T. Page, P. Rahkila, P. Reiter, Ch. Schlegel, C. Scholey, G. Sletten, O. Stezowski, Ch. Theisen, W.H. Trzaska, J. Uusitalo and H.J. Wollersheim
Abstract | PDF file (114 KB)

Microscopic structure of superdeformed states in $\chem$ , $\chem{U}$ , $\chem$ and $\chem$ isotopes with Gogny force p. 209
M. Girod, J. Libert, J.-P. Delaroche and P. Romain
Abstract | PDF file (401 KB)

Fission studies with relativistic beams p. 213
K.-H. Schmidt, P. Armbruster, J. Benlliure, C. Böckstiegel, H.-G. Clerc, T. Enqvist, A. Grewe, A. Heinz, A. Junghans, J. Müller, F. Rejmund and S. Steinhäuser
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Low-energy weak-interaction studies p. 217
N. Severijns
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Superallowed $\mth \rightarrow 0^$ beta-decay and CKM unitarity - Recent results and future prospects p. 223
J.C. Hardy and I.S. Towner
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Tests of the standard model from superallowed Fermi $\mth{\beta}$ -decay studies: The $\chemRb}$ $\mth{\beta}$ -decay p. 229
E.F. Zganjar, A. Piechaczek, G.C. Ball, P. Bricault, J.M. D'Auria, J.C. Hardy, D.F. Hodgson, V. Iacob, P. Klages, W.D. Kulp, J.R. Leslie, M. Lipoglavsek, J.A. Macdonald, H.-B. Mak, D.M. Moltz, G. Savard, J. von Schwarzenberg, C.E. Svensson, I.S. Towner and J.L. Wood
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Symmetry in exotic nuclei p. 233
P. Van Isacker and O. Juillet
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Ion traps -Precision measurements and more p. 237
G. Bollen
Abstract | PDF file (594 KB)

Carbon clusters for absolute mass measurements at ISOLTRAP p. 245
K. Blaum, G. Bollen, F. Herfurth, A. Kellerbauer, H.-J. Kluge, M. Kuckein, E. Sauvan, C. Scheidenberger and L. Schweikhard
Abstract | PDF file (122 KB)

Back to the line of stability - Chasing mass accuracies below $\mth}$ using a Penning trap and highly charged ions p. 249
T. Fritioff, H. Bluhme, R. Schuch, I. Bergström and M. Björkhage
Abstract | PDF file (306 KB)

Intense radioactive-ion beams produced with the ISOL method p. 255
U. Köster
Abstract | PDF file (229 KB)

Gamma-ray tracking: Utilizing new concepts in the detection of gamma-radiation p. 265
K. Vetter
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Heavy-element chemistry -Status and perspectives p. 271
A. Türler
Abstract | PDF file (111 KB)

Applications of radioactive ion beams to solid-state physics p. 275
M. Deicher and the ISOLDE Collaboration
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