Proceedings of the International Conference on The Nucleus: New Physics for the New Millennium, held January 18-22, 1999, at the National Accelerator Centre, Faure, South Africa

The articles in this book cover a broad range of topics in the field of nuclear physics, including many articles on the subject of high spin physics. With an emphasis on the discussion and analysis of future developments within a number of significant areas, the book's attempt to address the status of research at the beginning of the next century is to be welcomed by researchers and students alike. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 New Ideas in Nuclear Structure Physics....Pages 3-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Structure of Light Mass (Exotic) Nuclei as Evidenced by Scattering from Hydrogen....Pages 19-26 Lifetime Measurements and Dipole Transition Rates for Superdeformed States in 190 Hg....Pages 27-31 Interactions by Inversion....Pages 33-36 K=O + Excitations in Deformed Nuclei....Pages 37-40 Competition Between Beta and Double Beta Decay in 48 Ca and 96 Zr....Pages 41-42 In-Beam Gamma Spectroscopy of very Neutron-Rich Nuclei at Ganil....Pages 43-53 Experimental Studies of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction at KVI with 190 Mev Protons....Pages 55-62 Study of Mass A=130 Fission Fragments in the 14 n + 238 U Reaction at 10 MeV/A....Pages 63-67 The Isac Radioactive Beam Facility at Triumf: Present Status and Future Plans....Pages 69-76 The Pion-Nucleus Interaction and Pionic Atoms....Pages 77-80 Nuclear Structure Physics at Yale and Beyond....Pages 81-89 Photoactivation of 180M Ta at Astrophysically Relevant Energies....Pages 91-96 Mirror Nuclei and Odd-Odd N = Z Nuclei in the f 7/2 Shell....Pages 97-103 Study of the Doubly-Odd Nucleus 66 As....Pages 105-108 Test of Parity Doubling in 223 Ra and 223 Th....Pages 109-114 Angular Distribution of Protons Emitted from Oriented Nuclei: Toward Imaging Single-Particle Wave Functions....Pages 115-119 Probing Highly-fragmented Giant Resonances: Coincidence Experiments in the New Millennium....Pages 121-126 Clustering in Nuclei from N/Z=1 to N/Z=2....Pages 127-142 The Development and Applications of Scintillator-Photodiode Detectors....Pages 143-149 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Present Status of NEMO 3: A Double-Beta Decay Experiment without Antineutrino Emission....Pages 151-157 Collectivity in Medium Mass N≈Z Nuclei: Rotation Induced Octupole Correlations....Pages 159-168 Competition of Fission With the Population of the Yrast Superdeformed Band in 194 Pb....Pages 169-171 New Superdeformed Bands in 150 Gd....Pages 173-183 Double-Phonon γ-Vibration of Deformed Nuclei....Pages 185-189 N -Parity Projected BCS Theory....Pages 191-198 Access to Gamma-ray Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich sdfp Shell Nuclei....Pages 199-204 Applications in Nuclear Structure of a Family of Q-Deformed Algebras....Pages 205-211 Magnetic*#x2014; Rotational Bands in Pb Isotopes....Pages 213-220 Meson Production Near Threshold....Pages 221-235 Object-Oriented Programming for Nuclear Physics Measurements....Pages 237-240 Recent Results from In-Beam Studies of Very Neutron-Deficient Nuclei....Pages 241-249 Extrapolation of Astrophysical S Factors to Zero Energy....Pages 251-255 Shape-Coexistence in 74 Kr....Pages 257-260 High-Spin States in the Transitional Palladium Nuclei Observed in Heavy-Ion Induced Fission....Pages 261-262 First Identification of High Spin States in 164 Ta....Pages 263-267 The Use of a Realistic Effective Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction in Pre-Equilibrium Scattering....Pages 269-273 Gamma-Ray Array Physics....Pages 275-286 Study of the Strength Distribution of the Primary γ-Rays in the Decay From Superdeformed States in 194 Hg....Pages 287-291 γ-Ray Studies of Induced Fission 12 C+ 238 U....Pages 293-295 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 New Measurements of Level Densities....Pages 297-298 Study of High-Spin States in 190 Pt....Pages 299-301 Projectile Fragmentation Studies with the Most Exotic Nuclei....Pages 303-314 Systematics of Low-Lying Dipole Strength in Heavy Nuclei from Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence Experiments....Pages 315-319 Systematics of Terminating Configurations in A ≈100 Pd Nuclei....Pages 321-329 Enhanced E1-Decay from Triaxial SD Bands in 164 Lu....Pages 331-334 Variational Approach to Medium Mass N=Z Nuclei....Pages 335-338 Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of Fission Fragments Induced by Heavy Ions: from Nuclear Structure of Neutron-Rich Nuclei to Mechanism Studies....Pages 339-346 Analogies Between Terminating Bands in Sn/Sb and Zn Nuclei and Magnetic Bands in Pb Nuclei....Pages 347-354 A Decade of Proton Continuum Scattering at the NAC — What Have We Learnt?....Pages 355-364 The A~130 Highly-Deformed Region: New Results and Global Differential Lifetime Measurements....Pages 365-377 Quasi-Dynamical Symmetry — A New Use of Symmetry in Nuclear Physics....Pages 379-395 Prompt Particle Decays of Deformed Second Minima....Pages 397-412 Unified Derivation of Self-Consistent Multipole Interactions in Nuclei....Pages 413-416 The Recoil Shadow Anisotropy Method....Pages 417-422 Alpha Particle Emission in the Interaction of 400 MeV 12 C with 59 Co and 93 Nb....Pages 423-430 Decay out of the Yrast Superdeformed Band in 191 Hg....Pages 431-434 Spectroscopy at the Highest Spins in Normal Deformed Nuclei....Pages 435-443 Generalized Impulse Approximation Applied to Quasielastic Polarized Proton Scattering....Pages 445-448 Exotic Nuclei Produced and Probed Using Lasers and Ion Traps....Pages 449-455 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Measuring Quadrupole Moments in a Recoil-Shadow Geometry Using the Lems Method....Pages 457-462 Half-life for the rp-Process Waiting Point Nuclide 80 Zr Using Delayed Gamma Tagging....Pages 463-465 Nuclear Structure and the rp-Process in X-Ray Bursts....Pages 467-482 Magnetic Dipole Bands in 190 Hg....Pages 483-487 Front Matter....Pages 489-489 Summarising “The Nucleus”....Pages 491-509 Back Matter....Pages 511-516