Preface

Chapter 1 RADIOACTIVE BEAM FACILITIES AND ION SOURCES

The PIAFE Project

B. Vignon

the PIAFE Collaboration

Safety Tests on the Uranium Target of PIAFE

M. Fruneau

the PIAFE Collaboration

The Munich Fission Fragment Accelerator

D. Habs

O. Kester

P. Thirolf

J. Ott

A. Kolbe

H. J. Maier

D. Rudolph

K. Rudolph

K. E. G. Lobner

U. Koster

T. von Egidy

J. Schmidt

E. Steichele

T. Faestermann

P. Kienle

H. -J. Korner

H. Faust

M. Gross

Comparison of Reactor Based Radioactive Ion Beam Facilities

U. Koster

T. von Egidy

E. Steichele

D. Habs

O. Kester

J. Ott

P. Thirolf

H. Faust

T. Friedrichs

M. Gross

Estimates of Intensities for Very Neutron-Rich Isotopes from the (235)U (n,f) Reaction

H. Faust

T. Friedrichs

Overview of Radioactive Beam Facilities in Comparison with PIAFE

A. C. Mueller

Note on the Comparison between PIAFE and a Deuteron Based System

H. Nifenecker

ISOLDE Ion Sources and Targets with Relevance to PIAFE

H. L. Ravn

The OSIRIS Facility and Ion Source at Studsvik

B. Fogelberg

H. Mach

L. Jacobsson

Observation of Neutron-Rich Nickel Isotopes with the LISOL Laser Ion Source

S. Franchoo

A. Andreyev

M. Huyse

Y. Kudryavtsev

A. Piechaczek

R. Raabe

I. Reusen

P. van Duppen

L. Vermeeren

J. Wauters

A. Woehr

A Compact Apparatus for Mass Selective Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy of Transuranium Elements in a Buffer Gas Cell

H. Backe

M. Hies

B. R. Feldmann

H. Kunz

W. Lauth

H. Schope

P. Schwamb

M. Sewtz

N. Trautmann

K. Eberhardt

Remarks and Summary of Discussions on Radioactive Ion Beams at PIAFE

P. Armbruster

Chapter 2 SUPER HEAVY ELEMENTS

Prospects for the Synthesis of Superheavy Elements by the Use of Radioactive Beams

G. Munzenberg

Fission Fragment Beams in Heavy Element Research a Critical Perspective

M. Schadel

Systematics of Fusion Reactions with Projectiles and Target Nuclei in the Mass Range of Fission Fragments (AXXX100)

K. -H. Schmidt

Calculated Properties of Neutron-Rich Heavy Nuclei

R. A. Gherghescu

Z. Patyk

J. Skalski

A. Sobiczewski

Chapter 3 NUCLEAR STRUCTURE AND REACTIONS

Physics of Fission Fragments at PIAFE I

J. A. Pinston

Decay Studies Near the Proton Drip Line

E. Roeckl

Nuclear Structure and Transfer Reactions of Dripline Nuclei

H. Lenske

Nuclear Structure Studies of AXXX100 Neutron-Rich Nuclei with IGISOL at Jyvaskyla

G. Lhersonneau

Study of High-Spin Structure of Neutron-Rich Nuclei with AXXX100 Produced by Heavy-Ion Induced Fission

M. -G. Porquet

I. Deloncle

A. Minkova

A. Wilson

B. J. P. Gall

F. Hoellinger

N. Schulz

H. Sergolle

J. Duprat

F. Azaiez

S. Bouneau

C. Bourgeois

T. Kutsarova

T. Venkova

C. Gautherin

R. Lucas

A New Skyrme Effective Force Valid also for Neutron-Rich Nuclei

E. Chabanat

P. Bonche

P. Haensel

J. Meyer

R. Schaeffer

Spectroscopy of Fission Fragments with EUROGAM 2

W. Urban

J. L. Durell

W. R. Phillips

M. A. Jones

A. R. Barnett

S. J. Dorning

T. Rzaca-Urban

R. A. Sareen

A. G. Smith

B. J. Varley

I. Ahmad

L. R. Morss

N. Schulz

E. Lubkiewicz

M. Bentaleb

P. Daly

C. Zhang

Coulomb Excitation Using Fission Fragments

H. J. Wollersheim

Magnetic Moments of Excited States of Fission Products

A. Wolf

Direct Reactions in Inverse Kinematics for Nuclear Structure Studies Far Off Stability at Low Incident Energies

P. Egelhof

Production and Identification of Very Neutron-Rich Fission Fragments at GSI

C. Engelmann

P. Armbruster

H. Geissel

A. Heinz

C. Kozhuharov

G. Munzenberg

W. Schwab

K. Summerer

F. Ameil

M. Bernas

C. Donzaud

C. Stephan

L. Tassan-Got

Ph. Dessagne

Ch. Miche

C. Bockstiegel

B. Voss

Z. Janas

M. Pfutzner

C. Czajkowski

Production of an Isomeric Beam and Total Reaction Cross Section Measurement

T. Ethvignot

D. Lestrade

P. Delbourgo-Salvador

V. Meot

J. E. Sauvestre

M. Szmigiel

B. Bonnereau

A. Lefevre

M. Lewitowicz

M. G. Saint-Laurent

A. C. Mueller

O. Sorlin

F. Marie

Fission-Fragment Mass Distribution and Estimation of the Cluster Emission Probability in the XXX+(232)Th and (181)Ta Reactions

S. A. Karamian

J. Adam

A. G. Belov

P. Chaloun

Yu. V. Norseev

V. I. Stegailov

Astrophysically Relevant Neutron Capture near the Border of Stability

P. Mohr

H. Oberhummer

H. Beer

The Future of Advanced Fast Timing at the Next Generation of the Fission-Product Separators

H. Mach

B. Fogelberg

Chapter 4 MASS MEASUREMENTS

Penning Trap Mass Measurements at ISOLDE

G. Bollen

D. Beck

H. -J. Kluge

A. Kohl

M. Konig

S. Schwarz

F. Ames

E. Schark

H. Raimbault-Hartmann

G. Audi

D. Lunney

M. De Saint Simon

R. B. Moore

J. Szerypo

the ISOLDE Collaboration

Accurate Mass Measurements of Very Short-Lived Nuclei at ISOLDE with MISTRAL

M. D. Lunney

C. Toader

G. Audi

C. Borcea

H. Doubre

M. de Saint Simon

C. Thibault

Mass Measurements at GSI

M. Falch

T. Beha

Th. Kerscher

K. E. G. Lobner

T. Radon

B. Schlitt

K. Beckert

F. Bosch

H. Eickhoff

B. Franzke

H. Geissel

M. Haussmann

H. Irnich

O. Klepper

H. -J. Kluge

C. Kozhuharov

G. Kraus

G. Munzenberg

F. Nickel

F. Nolden

Z. Patyk

H. Reich

C. Scheidenberger

W. Schwab

M. Steck

K. Summerer

H. C. Jung

H. Wollnik

Y. Fujita

Yu. Novikov

Mass Measurements with SARA

S. Issmer

Th. Kerscher

K. E. G. Lobner

M. Fruneau

J. A. Pinston

M. Asghar

D. Barneoud

J. Genevey

Nuclear Mass Data in the Vicinity of (78)Ni

B. Fogelberg

H. Mach

K. A. Mezilev

Yu. N. Novikov

A First Measurement of the XXX-Decay Energy of (94)Kr

M. Gross

T. Friedrichs

H. Faust

F. Munnich

U. Keyser

QXXX Values of the Low and High Spin Isomer of (146)La

A. Paul

S. Rottger

U. Keyser

the LOHENGRIN Collaboration

Prompt (n,XXX)-Spectrometry for Accurate Determination of Atomic Mass Differences

S. Rottger

A. Paul

U. Keyser

Chapter 5 ATOMIC PHYSICS, SOLID STATE PHYSICS AND APPLICATIONS

Electronic Structure of Transactinides

B. Fricke

S. Fritzsche

V. Pershina

Laser Spectroscopy with Exotic Ion Beams

F. Le Blanc

O. Constantinescu

M. Hussonnois

J. B. Kim

J. Obert

J. Oms

J. C. Putaux

B. Roussiere

J. Sauvage

J. Pinard

L. Cabaret

H. T. Duong

M. Krieg

N. Boos

G. Huber

V. Sebastian

D. Lunney

C. Briancon

D. Le Du

R. Meunier

P. Quentin

J. Crawford

J. K. P. Lee

Y. P. Gangrsky

B. N. Markov

Y. T. Oganessian

J. Genevey

F. Ibrahim

C. Richard-Serre

Laser Spectroscopy at PIAFE

F. Ibrahim

Study of Radioactive Fission Product Migration in High Level Waste Storage Materials by Means of Ion Implantation

N. Moncoffre

A. Chevarier

N. Chevarier

N. Millard-Pinard

Solid-State Physics and PIAFE

D. Forkel-Wirth and the ISOLDE Collaboration

A. Burchard

M. Deicher

R. Magerle

U. Koster

Chapter 6 PIAFE PROJECT - PHYSICS CASE

General Presentation of PIAFE

E. Liatard

H. Nifenecker

B. Vignon

Research Opportunities in Fission Fragment Spectroscopy

B. Fogelberg

H. Mach

Nuclear Fusion Studies with PIAFE Beams

Yu. A. Lazarev

Yu. Ts. Oganessian

Studies of the Nucleon Exchange in Deep-Inelastic Collisions with Beams from PIAFE

F. Hanappe

H. Nifenecker

B. Vignon

Giant Isovector Dipole Resonance Studies

H. Nifenecker

J. A. Pinston

Nuclear Structure Studies with PIAFE

G. Sletten

Non-Nuclear Physics and Applications

E. Liatard

H. Nifenecker

Author Index

List of Participants