Nuclear Physics Concepts in the Study of Atomic Cluster Physics: Proceedings of the 88th WE-Heraeus-Seminar Held at Bad Honnef, FRG, 26–29 November 1991

Walter Greiner (auth.), Rüdiger Schmidt, Hans O. Lutz, Reiner Dreizler (eds.)3540556257, 9783540556251, 0387556257

Atomic cluster physics has evolved into a research field of truly interdisciplinary character. In particular, it has become apparent that phenomena in atomic nuclei have many analogues in atomic clusters. Increasing the interaction between nuclear and cluster physics can thereforeact as stimulus for both communities. The volume contains the Proceedings of a WE-Heraeus workshop on “Nuclear Physics Concepts inAtomic Cluster Physics” held in Bad Honnef (Germany), November 26-29, 1991. Both theoretical and experimental methods and results are discussed in detail, thus providing the first systematic account of the intimate connections between both fields.

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Table of contents :
Clusters in nuclear physics: From nuclear molecules to cluster radioactivities….Pages 1-25
Balian-Bloch supershells for pedestrians….Pages 26-38
Selfconsistent calculation of electronic supershells in metal clusters….Pages 39-45
Supershells in laser-warmed Na-clusters….Pages 46-53
Coexistence of electronic shells and shells of atoms in microclusters….Pages 54-63
Magic numbers of Coulomb and Lennard-Jones crystals and quasicrystals….Pages 64-71
Clusters as solitons on the nuclear surface….Pages 72-79
Fission versus metastable decay series of rare gas cluster ions….Pages 81-92
Applications of the liquid drop model to metal clusters….Pages 93-97
The dynamical model of the atomic cluster fraqmentation….Pages 98-106
Fission of metallic clusters….Pages 107-111
Dissociation of doubly-charged alkali-metal clusters….Pages 112-117
Projectile break-up in heavy ion collisions: Molecular dynamics for clusters of alpha particles….Pages 119-127
Nuclear heavy-ion and atomic cluster-cluster collisions….Pages 128-141
Molecular dynamics simulations of cluster-cluster collisions….Pages 142-150
Collision-induced reactions of size-selected cluster ions of Ar….Pages 151-157
Reactions and fission of clusters….Pages 158-168
Molecule-cluster collisions: Reaction of D 2 with Ni 13 ….Pages 169-177
Vibrational dynamics of large clusters from high resolution He atom scattering….Pages 178-184
Collision experiments with C 60 ….Pages 185-193
Ion trap studies of ternary and radiative association processes….Pages 194-200
Chemical reactions of trapped metal clusters….Pages 201-213
Electron scattering and electromagnetic response properties of metal clusters….Pages 214-221
Statistical fragmentation of clusters into clusters — in the example of nuclear fragmentation….Pages 222-229
Shell effects in cluster-cluster collisions….Pages 230-237
Snowballs: Micro-clusters in liquid helium as tools in nuclear and condensed-matter physics….Pages 238-243
Collective excitations in silver cluster anions and kations….Pages 245-253
RPA in nuclei and metal clusters….Pages 254-261
Optical response of doped S 1 -electron metal clusters….Pages 262-265
Collective excitations in large metal clusters….Pages 266-276
Quantum molecular interpretation of optical response properties of simple metal clusters….Pages 277-290
Photoelectron spectroscopy of alkali metal cluster anions….Pages 291-304
Structure and bonding in aluminium and gallium clusters….Pages 305-311
Electronic shell structures in aluminum and noble metal clusters….Pages 312-317
Correlated electron pairs in metal clusters….Pages 318-326
Electronic and atomic structure of simple-metal clusters: Beyond the spherical jellium model….Pages 327-334
Shell-model and projected mean-field approach to electronic excitations of atomic clusters….Pages 335-343
Dipole excitations of closed-shell alkali-metal clusters….Pages 344-351
Some considerations on “isoarithmic” and isoelectronic clusters….Pages 352-357
Magnetic properties of transition- and rare-earth metal clusters….Pages 358-363