Nuclear physics at border lines: proceedings of the international conference, Lipari (Messina), Italy, 21-24 May 2001

this Is A Collection Of Invited Talks And Oral Contributions Presented By The Leading Scientists In Their Fields, Summarizing The Most Recent Progress Of, And New Prospects For, Nuclear Physics Research. It Covers A Broad Range Of The Recent Developments In Nuclear Physics: Reactions Between Massive Nuclei Leading To Superheavy Element Formation; Radioactive Beams And Neutron-rich Systems; Exotic Nuclei And Nuclear Astrophysics; New States Of Nuclear Matter. Influence of excited radioactive nuclei for results in large-scale nuclear chronometry / V.S. Olkhovsky -- New magic number, N=16, near the neutron drip line / A. Ozawa -- Constrained molecular dynamics approach to fermionic systems / M. Papa, T. Maruyama, A. Bonasera -- Experiments on super-heavy nuclei at GANIL / J. Peter [und weitere] -- Isospin physics with the REVERSE experiment / M. Alderighi [und weitere] -- Collisional relaxation of collective vibration in hot nuclei / V.A. Plujko, M.O. Kavatsyuk, O.M. Gorbachenko -- Mass-energy distributions of fission fragments of superheavy nuclei produced in the reactions with [symbol]Ca ions / E. Prokhorova [und weitere] -- Thermodynamics of hot nuclei: multifragmentation and phase transition / M.F. Rivet -- Entrance and exit channels for very heavy and superheavy elements / G. Royer, K. Zbiri, R.A. Gherghescu -- The effect of the entrance channel in complete fusion reactions leading to the production of heavy nuclei / R.N. Sagaidak [und weitere] -- Fusion cross section for charged particles by using the optical theorem / A. Scalia -- Decay of compound nuclei / Ch. Schmitt [und weitere] -- Study of transfer induced fission and fusion-fission reactions for [symbol]Si + [symbol]Th system at 340 MeV / D. Fabris [und weitere] -- Statistical decay of heavy nucleus-nucleus systems / K. Siwek-Wilczyiiska -- Structure and properties of superheavy nuclei / I. Muntian, A. Sobiczewski -- Coulomb excitation of Ni and Zn isotopes around the N=40 subshell closure / O. Sorlin [und weitere] -- Backtraced neutron multiplicities and capture dynamics in the superheavy region / L. Stuttge [und weitere] -- Microscopic clusters in the ground states of lithium and beryllium isotopes / M. Tomaselli [und weitere] -- Astrophysical S factors from asymptotic normalization coefficients / R.E. Tribble [und weitere] -- Neutron induced reactions on radioactive beryllium and argon isotopes / C. Wagemans [und weitere] -- Pre-fusion capture cross sections for heavy nucleus-nucleus systems / J. Wilczyriski, K. Siwek-Wilczynska -- MAGNEX: A large-acceptance spectrometer for radioactive nuclear beam experiments / A. Cunsolo [und weitere] -- What we have learnt from study of the direct reactions with 25 MeV/n [symbol]He and [symbol]He secondary beams on hydrogen and helium targets? / R. Wolski [und weitere] -- Hydrogen-4 and hydrogen-5 from transfer reactions induced by a 57.5-MeV triton beam on deuterium and tritium targets / Yu. Ts. Oganessian [und weitere] -- Kinematic separator and magnetic analyzer for the identification of recoiling nuclei / Yu. Ts. Oganessian [und weitere] -- Decay time characteristics of the heavy excited nuclei / D.O. Eremenko [und weitere] -- Nucleon collectivization as the main mechanism of the fusion-fission dynamics / V.I. Zagrebaev Opening Talk: Nuclear Structure at Border Lines (Yu Ts Oganessian) Hard Photons: A Probe of Dynamical Effects in Heavy Ion Collisions at Intermediate Energy (R Alba et al.) Studying Exotic Nuclei Through Direct Reactions (Y Blumenfeld) Isospin Effects on Instabilities and Fragmentation Mechanisms (M Colonna et al.) New Opportunities with Beams of Rare Isotopes in the US (C K Gelbke) Preliminary Results and Future Activities at the GARFIELD Apparatus (F Gramegna et al.) Mean-Field Calculations of Super-Heavy Elements (P H Heenen) Recent Experiments and Plans for the Synthesis of Superheavy Elements at the GSI SHIP (S Hofmann) Nuclear Fission at Border Lines (M G Itkis et al.) Many-Body Theory at Extreme Isospin (H Lenske et al.) Probing Correlations in Many-Body Haloes (F M Marques Moreno) Theoretical Approaches and Experimental Evidences for Liquid-Vapor Phase Transitions in Nuclei (L G Moretto et al.) Study of Halo-Structure in Radioactive He and Li Nuclei with Proton Elastic Scattering (A V Dobrovolsky et al.) Effects of the Shell Structure in Reactions Leading to the Same Compound Nucleus or Different Isotopes (A K Nasirov et al.) New Magic Number, N=16, Near the Neutron Drip Line (A Ozawa) Experiments on Super-Heavy Nuclei at GANIL (J Peter et al.) Thermodynamics of Hot Nuclei: Multifragmentation and Phase Transition (M F Rivet) Structure and Properties of Superheavy Nuclei (I Muntian & A Sobiczewski) Backtraced Neutron Multiplicities and Capture Dynamics in the Superheavy Region (L Stuttge et al.) Astrophysical S Factors from Asymptotic Normalization Coefficients (R E Tribble et al.) and other papers. A collection of invited talks and oral contributions presented by the leading scientists in their fields, summarizing the progress of, and new prospects for, nuclear physics research. The papers constitute the proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Physics at Border Lines. A collection of invited talks and oral contributions presented by the leading scientists in their fields, summarizing the progress of, and new prospects for, nuclear physics research. The papers constitute the proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Physics at Border Lines. They cover a broad range of developments in nuclear physics: reactions between massive nuclei leading to superheavy element formation; radioactive beams and neutron-rich systems; exotic nuclei and nuclear astrophysics; and new states of nuclear matter