The 4th International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses: Refereed and selected contributions

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Latest trends in the ever-surprising field of mass measurements....Pages 3-8
Atomic Mass Evaluation 2003....Pages 9-13
Recent high-precision mass measurements with the Penning trap spectrometer ISOLTRAP....Pages 17-21
New mass measurements at the neutron drip-line....Pages 23-26
Ion manipulation and precision measurements at JYFLTRAP....Pages 27-30
Mass measurement of short-lived halo nuclides....Pages 31-32
Is N = 40 magic? An analysis of ISOLTRAP mass measurements....Pages 33-34
Extending the mass “backbone” to short-lived nuclides with ISOLTRAP....Pages 35-36
A MISTRAL spectrometer accoutrement for the study of exotic nuclides....Pages 37-39
Mass measurement on the rp-process waiting point 72 Kr....Pages 41-43
Atomic mass ratios for some stable isotopes of platinum relative to 197 Au....Pages 45-46
The ion-trap facility SHIPTRAP....Pages 49-50
Precision experiments with rare isotopes with LEBIT at MSU....Pages 51-52
TITAN project status report and a proposal for a new cooling method of highly charged ions....Pages 53-56
Development of a Penning trap system in Munich....Pages 57-58
The LEBIT 9.4 T Penning trap system....Pages 59-60
Commissioning of the ion beam buncher and cooler for LEBIT....Pages 61-62
A high-current EBIT for charge-breeding of radionuclides for the TITAN spectrometer....Pages 63-64
FT-ICR: A non-destructive detection for on-line mass measurements at SHIPTRAP....Pages 65-66
Commissioning and first on-line test of the new ISOLTRAP control system....Pages 67-68
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Recent progress in mass predictions....Pages 71-74
Bounds on the presence of quantum chaos in nuclear masses....Pages 75-78
Symmetry energies and the curvature of the nuclear mass surface....Pages 79-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
 β -decay studies of neutron-rich nuclei....Pages 83-87
The structure of nuclei near 78 Ni from isomer and decay studies....Pages 89-92
Beta-delayed γ and neutron emission near the double shell closure at 78 Ni....Pages 93-94
Exotic nuclei near 78 Ni in a shell model approach....Pages 95-96
Beta decays of 8 He, 9 Li, and 9 C....Pages 97-98
Halo neutrons and the β -decay of 11 Li....Pages 99-99
Voyage to the “Island of Inversion”: 29 Na....Pages 101-103
New structure information on 30 Mg, 31 Mg and 32 Mg....Pages 105-109
A novel way of doing decay spectroscopy at a radioactive ion beam facility....Pages 111-113
Structure of neutron-rich even-even 124,126 Cd....Pages 115-116
Structure of doubly-even cadmium nuclei studied by β − decay....Pages 117-118
New level information on Z = 51 isotopes, 111 Sb 60 and 134,135 Sb 83,84 ....Pages 119-120
On the structure of the anomalously low-lying 5/2 + state of 135 Sb....Pages 121-122
Discovery of a new 2.3 s isomer in neutron-rich 174 Tm....Pages 123-124
Beta-delayed gamma and proton spectroscopy near the Z = N line....Pages 125-126
Study of the (21+) isomer in 94 Ag....Pages 129-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-133
Beta-decay studies near 100 Sn....Pages 81-81
Beta-decay spectroscopy of 103,105 Sn....Pages 135-138
Discovery of the new proton emitter 144 Tm....Pages 139-141
Study of fine structure in the proton radioactivity of 146 Tm....Pages 145-147
Study of the N = 77 odd-Z isotones near the proton-drip line....Pages 149-150
Recoil decay tagging study of 146 Tm....Pages 151-153
Particle-core coupling in the transitional proton emitters 145,146,147 Tm....Pages 155-157
Nuclear pairing and Coriolis effects in proton emitters....Pages 159-160
Two-proton emission....Pages 161-163
First observation of 54 Zn and its decay by two-proton emission....Pages 165-168
Microscopic theory of the two-proton radioactivity....Pages 169-172
Alpha-decay studies using the JYFL gas-filled recoil separator RITU....Pages 173-175
Decay studies of neutron-deficient odd-mass At and Bi isotopes....Pages 179-180
Alpha-decay study of 218 U; a search for the sub-shell closure at Z = 92....Pages 181-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-184
Developments in laser spectroscopy at the Jyväskylä IGISOL....Pages 185-185
Laser and β -NMR spectroscopy on neutron-rich magnesium isotopes....Pages 187-191
Measurement of the nuclear charge radii of 8,9 Li....Pages 193-197
Effects of the pairing energy on nuclear charge radii....Pages 199-200
First g-factor measurement using a radioactive 76 Kr beam....Pages 201-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-204
Anomalous magnetic moment of 9 C and shell quenching in exotic nuclei....Pages 205-208
Investigation of nuclear matter distribution of the neutron-rich He isotopes by proton elastic scattering at intermediate energies....Pages 185-185
Reaction cross-sections for stable nuclei and nucleon density distribution of proton drip-line nucleus 8 B....Pages 209-212
Nucleon density distribution of proton drip-line nucleus 17 Ne....Pages 215-216
Reaction cross-sections and reduced strong absorption radii of nuclei in the vicinity of closed shells N = 20 and N = 28....Pages 217-219
Anomalous behaviour of matter radii of proton-rich Ga, Ge, As, Se and Br nuclei....Pages 221-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-226
Fusion studies with RIBs....Pages 227-230
Sub-barrier fusion induced by neutron-rich radioactive 132 Sn....Pages 231-231
Measurement of evaporation residue cross sections from reactions with radioactive neutron-rich beams....Pages 233-238
First experiments on transfer with radioactive beams using the TIARA array....Pages 239-240
Spectroscopic factors in exotic nuclei from nucleon-knockout reactions....Pages 241-242
First experiment of 6 He with a polarized proton target....Pages 245-250
Isobaric analog states of neutron-rich nuclei. Doppler shift as a measurement tool for resonance excitation functions....Pages 251-253
A new view to the structure of 19 C....Pages 255-258
Reactions induced beyond the dripline at low energy by secondary beams....Pages 259-260
Study of the ground-state wave function of 6 He via the 6 He(p; t) α transfer reaction....Pages 261-262
Effect of halo structure on 11 Be + 12 C elastic scattering....Pages 263-266
Observation of pre-equilibrium alpha particles at extreme backward angles from 28 Si + nat Si and 28 Si + 27 Al reactions at E < 5 MeV/A....Pages 267-269
Yield of low-lying high-spin states at optimal charge-particle reactions....Pages 273-275
Developing techniques to study A ∼ 132 nuclei with (d, p) reactions in inverse kinematics....Pages 277-278
Front Matter....Pages 279-280
MUST2: A new generation array for direct reaction studies....Pages 283-285
The EXODET apparatus: Features and first experimental results....Pages 231-231
Unbound exotic nuclei studied via projectile fragmentation reactions....Pages 287-288
Progress on reactions with exotic nuclei....Pages 289-290
Entrance channel dependence in compound nuclear reactions with loosely bound nuclei....Pages 293-294
Front Matter....Pages 295-297
Cluster structure in stable and unstable nuclei....Pages 299-301
Multineutron clusters....Pages 303-303
New insights into the resonance states of 5 H and 5 He....Pages 305-310
Borromean nuclei and three-body resonances....Pages 311-313
Breakup reactions of halo nuclei....Pages 315-320
Observation of a two-proton halo in 17 Ne....Pages 323-324
Remarks about the driplines....Pages 325-326
Discovery of 60 Ge and 64 Se....Pages 327-330
Studies of light neutron-rich nuclei near the drip line....Pages 333-334
One-neutron knockout of 23 O....Pages 335-338
Inelastic proton scattering on 16 C....Pages 339-341
Experimental evidence of a v (1d 5/2 ) 2 component to the 12 Be ground state....Pages 343-346
Stability island near the neutron-rich 40 O isotope....Pages 347-348
Front Matter....Pages 349-351
Shell structure from 100 Sn to 78 Ni: Implications for nuclear astrophysics....Pages 353-354
News on mirror nuclei in the sd and fp shells....Pages 355-355
Front Matter....Pages 357-362
Study of single-particle states in 23 F using proton transfer reaction....Pages 363-366
Single-neutron excitations in neutron-rich N = 51 nuclei....Pages 355-355
High-spin shape isomers and the nuclear Jahn-Teller effect....Pages 367-370
Identification of mixed-symmetry states in odd-A 93 Nb....Pages 371-374
Coulomb excitation and transfer reactions with neutron-rich radioactive beams....Pages 375-376
 132 Te and single-particle density-dependent pairing....Pages 377-379
Coulomb excitation measurements of transition strengths in the isotopes 132,134 Sn....Pages 383-387
Coulomb excitation of odd-A neutron-rich radioactive beams....Pages 389-390
Coulomb excitation of neutron-rich beams at REX-ISOLDE....Pages 391-394
Spectroscopy on neutron-rich nuclei at RIKEN....Pages 395-396
Reduced transition probabilities for the first 2 + excited state in 46 Cr, 50 Fe, and 54 Ni....Pages 397-402
Intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation of the neutron-rich Ge isotopes around N = 50....Pages 403-408
First results of the CLARA-PRISMA setup installed at LNL....Pages 409-413
Multinucleon transfer reactions studied with the heavy-ion magnetic spectrometer PRISMA....Pages 415-417
Study of high-spin states in the 48 Ca region by using secondary fusion reactions....Pages 421-426
Spectroscopy of Ne and Na isotopes: Preliminary results from a EUROBALL + Binary Reaction Spectrometer experiment....Pages 427-428
Ground-state properties and phase/shape transitions in the IBA....Pages 429-430
Chiral symmetry in odd-odd neutron-deficient Pr nuclei....Pages 431-432
Soft triaxial rotor in the vicinity of γ = π /6 and its extensions....Pages 435-436
RDDS lifetime measurement with JUROGAM + RITU....Pages 437-438
Front Matter....Pages 439-440
Lifetime measurements and low-lying structure in 112 Sn....Pages 441-442
Check for chirality in real nuclei....Pages 355-355
Probing the three shapes in 186 Pb using in-beam γ -ray spectroscopy....Pages 443-445
Systematics in the structure of low-lying, non-yrast band-head configurations of strongly deformed nuclei....Pages 447-448
A measure for triaxiality from K (shape) invariants....Pages 449-450
Alternative interpretation of E0 strengths in transitional regions....Pages 451-452
Soft chiral vibrations in 106 Mo....Pages 453-454
Half-life measurement of excited states in neutron-rich nuclei....Pages 455-456
Investigations of short half-life states from SF of 252 Cf....Pages 459-462
Identification of levels in 162,164 Gd and decrease in moment of inertia between N = 98–100....Pages 463-464
Shape transitions and triaxiality in neutron-rich odd-mass Y and Nb isotopes....Pages 465-466
Unexpected rapid variations in odd-even level staggering in gamma-vibrational bands....Pages 467-468
Front Matter....Pages 469-470
Ab initio No-Core Shell Model —Recent results and future prospects....Pages 471-472
Ab initio no-core shell model calculations using realistic two- and three-body interactions....Pages 473-473
Ab initio coupled cluster calculations for nuclei using methods of quantum chemistry....Pages 475-480
Effective operators in the NCSM formalism....Pages 481-484
Shell-model description of weakly bound and unbound nuclear states....Pages 485-488
Shell-model description of neutron-rich pf-shell nuclei with a new effective interaction GXPF1....Pages 489-490
Effects of the continuum coupling on spin-orbit splitting....Pages 493-498
Study of drip-line nuclei with a core plus multi-valence nucleon model....Pages 499-502
Front Matter....Pages 503-504
Wave function factorization of shell-model ground states....Pages 505-506
Shell model analysis of intruder states and high-K isomers in the fp shell....Pages 473-473
Extended pairing model revisited....Pages 507-508
Application of the extended pairing model to heavy isotopes....Pages 509-510
Microscopic models for exotic nuclei....Pages 511-513
Breathing mode energy and nuclear matter incompressibility coefficient within relativistic and non-relativistic models....Pages 515-516
Unrestricted TDHF studies of nuclear response in the continuum....Pages 519-524
Self-consistent relativistic QRPA studies of soft modes and spin-isospin resonances in unstable nuclei....Pages 525-526
Deformations and electromagnetic moments of light exotic nuclei....Pages 527-529
Skyrme-QRPA calculations of multipole strength in exotic nuclei....Pages 531-534
On the non-unitarity of the Bogoliubov transformation due to the quasiparticle space truncation....Pages 535-538
2-D lattice HFB calculations for neutron-rich zirconium isotopes....Pages 539-540
Soft octupole vibrations on superdeformed states in nuclei around 40 Ca suggested by Skyrme-HF and self-consistent RPA calculations....Pages 541-542
Collective path connecting the oblate and prolate local minima in proton-rich N = Z nuclei around 68 Se....Pages 543-544
Light exotic nuclei studied with the parity-projected Hartree-Fock method....Pages 545-546
Using high-spin data to constrain spin-orbit term and spin-fields of Skyrme forces....Pages 547-548
TDHF studies with modern Skyrme forces....Pages 549-550
Relativistic mean-field models with medium-dependent meson-nucleon couplings....Pages 551-552
Microscopic structure of negative-parity vibrations built on superdeformed states in sulfur isotopes close to the neutron drip line....Pages 553-554
Cranking in isospace....Pages 555-556
Front Matter....Pages 557-558
Di-neutron correlations in medium-mass neutron-rich nuclei near the dripline....Pages 559-562
Large-scale HFB calculations for deformed nuclei with the exact particle number projection....Pages 473-473
Collective excitations induced by pairing anti-halo effect....Pages 563-565
Continuum effects on the pairing in neutron drip-line nuclei studied with the canonical-basis HFB method....Pages 567-568
Pairing effects on the collectivity of quadrupole states around 32 Mg....Pages 569-570
Front Matter....Pages 571-572
Beyond darmstadtium —Status and perspectives of superheavy element research....Pages 573-574
Chemical properties of transactinides....Pages 575-575
New elements from Dubna....Pages 577-582
Random probability analysis of recent 48 Ca experiments....Pages 583-587
In-beam and decay spectroscopy of transfermium elements....Pages 589-594
In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of 254 No....Pages 595-597
Model of binding alpha-particles and applications to superheavy elements....Pages 599-604
Ground-state properties of superheavy elements in macroscopic-microscopic models....Pages 605-607
Fusion hindrance and quasi-fission in 48 Ca induced reactions....Pages 609-610
Entrance-channel potentials for hot fusion reactions....Pages 611-612
Front Matter....Pages 615-618
Amazing developments in nuclear astrophysics....Pages 619-620
Investigating the rp-process with the Canadian Penning trap mass spectrometer....Pages 621-621
r-process isotopes in the 132 Sn region....Pages 623-628
The half-life of the doubly-magic r-process nucleus 78 Ni....Pages 629-632
New 19 Ne resonance observed using an exotic 18 F beam....Pages 633-638
Front Matter....Pages 639-642
 12 C + 12 C cross-section measurements at low energies....Pages 643-644
 7 Be breakup on heavy and light targets....Pages 621-621
Quasi-free 6 Li(n, α ) 3 H reaction at low energy from 2 H break-up....Pages 645-646
Global microscopic models for r-process calculations....Pages 647-648
Shell-model applications in supernova physics....Pages 649-650
The Trojan-Horse method for nuclear astrophysics....Pages 653-657
Pycnonuclear reactions in dense stellar matter....Pages 659-664
A statistical spectroscopy approach for calculating nuclear level densities....Pages 665-668
Front Matter....Pages 669-672
Fundamental symmetries and interactions —Some aspects....Pages 673-674
Weak interaction symmetries with atom traps....Pages 675-675
Time-reversal violation in heavy octupole-deformed nuclei....Pages 677-683
Superallowed 0 + → 0 + decay and CKM unitarity: A new overview including more exotic nuclei....Pages 685-689
Search for P-odd time reversal noninvariance in nuclear processes....Pages 691-694
Parity non-conservation in the γ -decay of polarized 17/2 − isomers in 93 Tc....Pages 695-698
The LPCTrap for the measurement of the β-ν correlation in 6 He....Pages 699-701
Alignment correlation term in mass A = 8 system and G-parity irregular term....Pages 703-704
Front Matter....Pages 705-707
Ion manipulation with cooled and bunched beams....Pages 709-710
Status of the RISING project at GSI....Pages 711-711
Recent highlights from ISOLDE@CERN....Pages 713-718
ISOL beams of neutron-rich oxygen isotopes....Pages 719-722
Front Matter....Pages 723-727
Radioactive Ion beams in Brazil (RIBRAS)....Pages 729-731
GANIL and the SPIRAL2 project....Pages 711-711
Recent developments of the radioactive beam preparation at REX-ISOLDE....Pages 733-736
Preparation of cooled and bunched ion beams at ISOLDE-CERN....Pages 737-738
Performance of IGISOL 3....Pages 739-741
Production of beams of neutron-rich nuclei between Ca and Ni using the ion-guide technique....Pages 743-744
LISE++ development: Application to projectile fission at relativistic energies....Pages 745-747
Exotic nuclei within the INFN-PI32 network....Pages 749-750
Spallation reactions for nuclear waste transmutation and production of radioactive nuclear beams....Pages 751-752
TARGISOL: An ISOL-database on the web....Pages 753-754
Front Matter....Pages 757-762
Concluding remarks of the ENAM’04 Conference....Pages 763-764
Identiffcation of mixed-symmetry states in odd-A 93 Nb....Pages 765-765
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