Product Description: In recent years, a new field of nuclear research has been opened through the possibility of studying nuclei wi\h very large values of angular momentum, temperature, pressure and number of particles. This development has been closely associated with heavy ion reactions, since collisions between two heavy nuclei are especially effective in producing metastable compound systems with large angular momentum, and in transferring energy which is distributed over the whole nuclear volume...read more

Product Description: Quantum mechanics is the set of laws of physics which, to the best of our knowledge, provides a complete account of the microworld. One of its chap­ ters, quantum electrodynamics (QED), is able to account for the quantal phenomena of relevance to daily life (electricity, light, liquids and solids, etc...read more

Product Description: Combining elastic and inelastic processes with transfer reactions, this two-part volume explores how these events affect heavy ion collisions. Special attention is given to processes involving the transfer of two nucleons, which are specific for probing pairing correlations in nuclei...read more

Product Description: This text presents the results of broad, interdisciplinary effort to study proteins in physical and evolutionary perpective. Among authors are physicists, computational, chemists, crystallographers and evolutionary biologists. Experimental and theoretical developments "from molecules to cells" are presented, providing a broad picture of modern biophysical chemistry...read more

Product Description: ...incorporates general physical concepts with a review of the study of nuclear structure at finite temperature... presents work at the forefront of research...an essential guide for uses of gamma ray detectors.

Product Description: The last few years have seen great progress in the understanding of nuclei far from stability, that is, nuclei with a composition that differs radically from that of the stable nuclei encountered in nature. It has become clear that the study of exotic nuclear species reveals many new phenomena, which may take scientists back, armed with new insight, to more familiar nuclear systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of papers looks at the major developments that have taken place in the study of the nuclear paradigm as a result of detector and accelerator development, and of improved theoretical models. The active use of 4-pi detectors to measure the gamma decay of excited nuclei has been instrumental in exploring the consequences of extremely high rotational frequencies and excitation energies in the nuclear structure...read more

Product Description: Subjects at the forefront of many-particle research, like high-temperature superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect, heavy fermions, tunneling of quantal systems with many degrees of freedom, Monte Carlo calculations on a lattice etc...read more