Nuclear Physics: Present and Future

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Dedication to Prof. Mikhail Itkis....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
SHE Research at GSI—Historical Remarks and New Ideas....Pages 9-19
Opening New Lands on the Nuclear Map....Pages 21-31
Superheavy Element Chemistry....Pages 33-43
Nucleon Transfer Reactions in Very Heavy Ion Systems....Pages 45-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
New Insights into the Structure of Neutron-Rich Nuclei $$A=108-118$$ and $$^{160-162}$$ Gd....Pages 57-67
Paradigmatic Lessons from Nuclear Driplines....Pages 69-78
Preliminary Results on Observation of New Shape Isomers....Pages 79-88
Features of Nuclear Reactions with Light Weakly Bound Nuclei at Energies Near the Coulomb Barrier....Pages 89-98
Stability Peninsulas in the Neutron-Rich Sector....Pages 99-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Dynamics of Collinear Ternary Fission....Pages 109-120
General Laws of Quantum and Statistical Mechanics Governing Fission....Pages 121-129
How Rare Is Cluster Decay of Superheavy Nuclei?....Pages 131-140
New Kind of Nuclear Multi-body Decay (CCT)—Status and Perspectives of Studies....Pages 141-150
Possible Production of Neutron-Rich Heavy Nuclei in Fissile Spallation Targets....Pages 151-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
FAIR—Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory....Pages 165-174
Turbulence in Low Viscosity Quark-Gluon Plasma....Pages 175-181
Parallelization of Kinetic Theory Simulations....Pages 183-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Probing Supercritical Fields with Real and with Artificial Nuclei....Pages 195-210
Zepto-Second Atomic Clock for Nuclear Contact Time Measurements....Pages 211-221
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Superheavy Nuclear Molecules....Pages 223-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Compact Stars—How Exotic Can They Be?....Pages 235-243
Observational Tests of the Pseudo-complex Theory of GR Using Black Hole Candidates....Pages 245-253
Pseudo-complex General Relativity and Neutron Stars....Pages 255-264
An Introduction to the Mathematics of Pseudo-complex General Relativity....Pages 265-274
The Gauge Principle in Covariant Hamiltonian Field Theory....Pages 275-286
Combining Quantum Electrodynamics and Electron Correlation....Pages 287-295
Ultra High Energy Neutrons and Other Fermions....Pages 297-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-309