Nuclear Shapes and Nuclear Structure at Low Excitation Energies

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introductory Remarks....Pages 3-15
Panoramic New Vistas of Nuclei in and Near Their Ground States....Pages 17-37
Nuclear Shapes and Nuclear Structure at Low Excitation Energies: Theoretical Aspects....Pages 39-53
Atomic Physics and Nuclear Properties....Pages 55-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Progress in Atomic Physics Experiments on Nuclear Properties....Pages 69-80
Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy of Rare-Earth Elements at Iris Facility....Pages 81-86
Atomic Spectroscopy as a Probe of Parity Non-Conserving Effects in the Nucleus....Pages 87-92
Isotope Shifts and Hyperfine Structure in Polonium Isotopes by Atomic Beam Laser Spectroscopy....Pages 93-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Single-Particle Response Function Complementary Aspects of (e,e’p) and Transfer Reactions....Pages 101-122
Intruder States and Low Energy Nuclear Spectroscopy....Pages 123-141
Rotational Structures and Residual Interactions in Doubly Odd Nuclei....Pages 143-161
Collective and Quasi-Particle Degrees of Freedom in 178 Hf (*)....Pages 163-167
Diabatic Effects and Shape Coexistence in Neutron Deficient Pb Isotopes....Pages 169-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Low-Energy Multiphonon States in Deformed Nuclei....Pages 179-193
Low-Lying Vibrational States in Deformed Nuclei....Pages 195-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Algebraic Approaches to Nuclear Structure....Pages 203-218
Shape Coexistence in the Pb Region....Pages 219-225
Population of the Oblate and Prolate Systems in 187 Au Produced at Various Beam Energies in Two Different Reactions....Pages 227-232
The Shell Model Distribution of Nuclear Shapes....Pages 233-238
Magnetic Dipole Excitations of Heavy Nonspherical Nuclei....Pages 239-244
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Reflection-Asymmetric Shapes in Atomic Nuclei....Pages 247-266
Electric Transition Strengths in Octupole Nuclei Measured by Coulomb Excitation....Pages 267-270
Open Questions on the Low-Energy Negative-Parity Excitations....Pages 271-277
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
Microscopic Description of Superdeformation at Low Spin....Pages 281-298
Superdeformation: An Experimental Review....Pages 299-313
Thallium Isotopes: A Set of “Identical” Superdeformed Bands....Pages 315-321
Microscopic Description of Quadrupole and Octupole Modes in the Superdeformation Region of 192 Hg....Pages 323-327
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Isospin Forbidden β Transitions to Low-Lying 0 + States and the Effect on Superallowed Decay Rates....Pages 331-337
Nuclei Far from Stability and the R-Process Waiting-Point Concept....Pages 339-345
Emission of Neutrons and the Neutron Halo of 11 Li....Pages 347-351
Search for New Radioactivities at the Proton Drip-Line....Pages 353-358
Internal Conversion Anomaly around A = 187....Pages 359-364
Exploration of the Neutron-Rich Mass Surface from 11 Li to 66 Fe....Pages 365-370
Front Matter....Pages 371-371
Statistical Properties of Complete Level Schemes....Pages 373-380
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
Nuclear Moments by Orientation Methods....Pages 383-398
High-Accuracy Mass Determination of Unstable Rb, Sr, Cs, Ba, Fr and Ra Isotopes with a Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer....Pages 399-405
γ-Ray Spectroscopy of Relativistic Fragments: A Novel Technique....Pages 407-413
Lifetime Measurements in Medium Heavy Nuclei Using the Gamma Ray Induced Doppler Broadening (GRID) Technique....Pages 415-421
Post Acceleration of Radioactive Beams: A New Tool for Nuclear Physics Studies....Pages 423-428
In Beam Nuclear Polarization of Radioactive Ion Beams....Pages 429-433
Front Matter....Pages 435-435
Concluding Remarks....Pages 437-446
Back Matter....Pages 447-457