The European Physical Journal A (EPJ A)

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 et al. (12 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10219-7

Lasers in nuclear physics —A review p. 35

R. Neugart

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10220-2

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

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10217-9

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 et al. (6 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10223-y

Charge radius change in the heavy tin isotopes until 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 et al. (16 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10225-9

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

W. Hillebrandt

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10224-x

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

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10226-8

Coulomb breakup of and the flux of 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

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10227-7

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

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10228-6

Beta-decay and exotic nuclei p. 75

K. Riisager

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10229-5

New experimental results in proton radioactivity p. 81

K.P. Rykaczewski

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10230-0

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

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10231-y

New developments in the theory of proton radioactivity p. 89

E. Maglione and L.S. Ferreira

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10232-x

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

F. Azaiez, M. Belleguic, D. Sohler, M. Stanoiu, Zs. Dombrádi, O. Sorlin, J. Timár, F. Amorini, D. Baiborodin, A. Bauchet et al. (25 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10233-9

Spectroscopy of nuclei around with direct reactions p. 99

T. Motobayashi

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10234-8

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

D.J. Morrissey

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10235-7

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

N.A. Orr

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10236-6

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

J.S. Al-Khalili

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10237-5

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

B. Blank

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10238-4

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

L.V. Grigorenko, R.C. Johnson, I.G. Mukha, I.J. Thompson and M.V. Zhukov

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10239-3

Molecular structure of nuclei p. 131

H. Horiuchi

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10240-x

Correlated emission of three -particles in the -decay of 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 et al. (10 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10241-9

Decay properties of nuclei p. 139

E. Roeckl

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10242-8

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

E. Caurier, F. Nowacki and A. Poves

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10243-7

Frontiers and challenges of nuclear shell model p. 151

T. Otsuka, Y. Utsuno, R. Fujimoto, B.A. Brown, M. Honma and T. Mizusaki

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10244-6

Shape coexistence and the 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 et al. (10 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10245-5

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

D. Rudolph

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10246-4

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

J.L. Durell

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10247-3

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 et al. (6 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10248-2

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 et al. (7 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10249-1

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

A. Korgul, H. Mach, B. Fogelberg, W. Urban, W. Kurcewicz, T. Rząca-Urban, P. Hoff, H. Gausemel, J. Galy, J.L. Durell et al. (14 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10250-8

Decay studies of nuclei from to p. 185

T. Faestermann, R. Schneider, A. Stolz, K. Sümmerer, E. Wefers, J. Friese, H. Geissel, M. Hellström, P. Kienle, H.-J. Körner et al. (8 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10251-7

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 et al. (25 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10252-6

Status and prospects of synthesizing superheavy elements p. 195

S. Hofmann

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10253-5

Synthesis of superheavy nuclei in the reactions of and with 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 et al. (15 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10254-4

In-beam spectroscopy of 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 et al. (36 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10255-3

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

M. Girod, J. Libert, J.-P. Delaroche and P. Romain

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10256-2

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 et al. (2 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10257-1

Low-energy weak-interaction studies p. 217

N. Severijns

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2002-10040-x

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

J.C. Hardy and I.S. Towner

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10258-0

Tests of the standard model from superallowed Fermi -decay studies: The -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 et al. (10 more)

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10259-y

Symmetry in exotic nuclei p. 233

P. Van Isacker and O. Juillet

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10260-6

Ion traps —Precision measurements and more p. 237

G. Bollen

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10261-5

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

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10262-4

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

T. Fritioff, H. Bluhme, R. Schuch, I. Bergström and M. Björkhage

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10263-3

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

U. Köster

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10264-2

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

K. Vetter

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10265-1

Heavy-element chemistry —Status and perspectives p. 271

A. Türler

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10266-0

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

M. Deicher and the ISOLDE Collaboration

Published online: 31 October 2002

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10267-y

EPJ

The European Physical Journal A

Volume 15 / No 1-2 (September-October 2002)

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

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