Structure and Reactions of Light Exotic Nuclei

Since the mid-1980s increasing effort has been put into light exotic nuclei, that is light nuclei of unusual composition. The research of the exotic nuclei began with the advent of accelerated beams of such nuclei. This new technique has revitalized nuclear physics, and the facilities producing radioactive ion beams now offer opportunities for pioneering research. This book considers the theory of collisions of light exotic nuclei and puts forth a multi-cluster model in which the inter-cluster motion is treated accurately. Current hot topics are included, as are more advanced areas of the theory. Structure and Reactions of Light Exotic Nuclei is intended for both experimental and theoretical physicists of graduate level and above.

Yasuyuki Suzuki was awarded his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1972 and, since then, has been a member of the Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Japan, including periods spent working at the University of Michigan. He has published over 150 papers on nuclear structure, the cluster model and its applications, quantum few-body problems and reaction theory Rezso G. Lovas graduated from the University of Debrecen, Hungary, in 1970 and was awarded his PhD in nuclear theory from there in 1974. Apart from periods spent at the University of Oxford, and at Daresbury Laboratory, UK, he has worked at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, where he is now the Director Kazuhiro Yabana is an Associate Professor of theoretical nuclear physics at the Institute of Physics of the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and his current research interests include finite electron systems and unstable nuclei Kalman Varga received his PhD from the University of Debrecen, Hungary, and is a computational physicist who uses Monte Carlo approaches in various fields ranging from nuclear physics to materials science