The European Physical Journal A

Present knowledge of atomic masses p. 1

Direct mass measurements of exotic nuclei p. 7

A Hartree-Fock nuclear mass formula p. 13

Accurate mass measurements of very short-lived nuclei - Prerequisites for high-accuracy investigations of superallowed -decays p. 17

Nuclear ground-state properties from mean-field calculations p. 21

Nuclear-matter distributions of halo nuclei from elastic proton scattering in inverse kinematics p. 27

Lasers in nuclear physics —A review p. 35

The measurement of the electronic g-factor in hydrogen-like ions —A promising tool for determining fundamental and nuclear constants p. 41

First results from laser spectroscopy on bunched radioactive beams from the JYFL ion-beam cooler p. 45

Charge radius change in the heavy tin isotopes until from laser spectroscopy p. 49

Stars from birth to death: Laboratories for exotic nuclei? p. 53

Nuclear-reaction rates in the thermonuclear runaway phase of accreting neutron stars p. 59

Coulomb breakup of and the flux of neutrinos from the Sun p. 65

Asymptotic normalization coefficients in nuclear astrophysics and structure p. 69

Beta-decay and exotic nuclei p. 75

New experimental results in proton radioactivity p. 81

New results on proton emission from odd-odd nuclei p. 85

New developments in the theory of proton radioactivity p. 89

Probing shell structure in neutron-rich nuclei with in-beam -spectroscopy p. 93

Spectroscopy of nuclei around with direct reactions p. 99

Production of low- and high-energy radioactive-ion beams by fragmentation p. 105

Haloes and clustering in light, neutron-rich nuclei p. 109

Structure and reactions of halo nuclei: An entangled approach p. 115

Studies with one- and two-proton drip line nuclei p. 121

Three-body decays of light nuclei: , , , , , and Ne p. 125

Molecular structure of nuclei p. 131

Correlated emission of three -particles in the -decay of p. 135

Decay properties of nuclei p. 139

Large-scale shell model calculations for exotic nuclei p. 145

Frontiers and challenges of nuclear shell model p. 151

Shape coexistence and the shell closure far from stability by inelastic scattering p. 157

High-spin proton and alpha-particle emission as probes for nuclear structure p. 161

The structure and spectroscopy of neutron-rich nuclei p. 167

Physics with heavy neutron-rich RIBs at the HRIBF p. 171

New insights into neutron-rich nuclei at high spin p. 175

The neutron and proton two-particle nucleus : New low-spin states observed in the decay of and an estimate of the energy of the isomer p. 181

Decay studies of nuclei from to p. 185

In-beam studies of very neutron-deficient heavy nuclei p. 189

Status and prospects of synthesizing superheavy elements p. 195

Synthesis of superheavy nuclei in the reactions of and with p. 201

In-beam spectroscopy of p. 205

Microscopic structure of superdeformed states in , , and isotopes with Gogny force p. 209

Fission studies with relativistic beams p. 213

Low-energy weak-interaction studies p. 217

Superallowed beta-decay and CKM unitarity - Recent results and future prospects p. 223

Tests of the standard model from superallowed Fermi -decay studies: The -decay p. 229

Symmetry in exotic nuclei p. 233

Ion traps —Precision measurements and more p. 237

Carbon clusters for absolute mass measurements at ISOLTRAP p. 245

Back to the line of stability - Chasing mass accuracies below using a Penning trap and highly charged ions p. 249

Intense radioactive-ion beams produced with the ISOL method p. 255

Gamma-ray tracking: Utilizing new concepts in the detection of gamma-radiation p. 265

Heavy-element chemistry —Status and perspectives p. 271

Applications of radioactive ion beams to solid-state physics p. 275