Proceedings of the Conference on Nuclear Structure in the Nineties

Preface

Dedication

Session Ia: Exotic Nuclear Shapes

Chapter 1. a Variety of Shapes Occurring in Different States of Atomic Nuclei

Chapter 2. Superdeformation - An Experimental Overview

Session Ib: Superdeformation

Chapter 3. Superdeformations - a Theoretical Overview

Chapter 4. Band Crossing in the Superdeformed Band of 146gd

Session IIa: Superdeformation in the Hg-Pb-Tl Region

Chapter 5. Superdeformation in the Mercury Nuclei

Chapter 6. Spin Alignment in Superdeformed Rotational Bands

Chapter 7. Evidence for Octupole Softness of the Superdeformed Shape from Band Interactions in 193,4hg

Chapter 8. Properties of Superdeformed Bands in the a = 194 Region

Chapter 9. Superdeformed Bands in 194Tl

Chapter 10. Superdeformation in 194pb

Chapter 11. Evidence of Time Delay in the Decay of the Superdeformed Bands of 191,192hg

Session IIb: Superdeformation

Chapter 12. Studies in Superdeformation at Chalk River

Chapter 13. Alpha-Particle Emission as a Probe of Nuclear Shapes and Structure Effects in Proton Evaporation Spectra

Chapter 14. Population of Superdeformed Bands, The Competition with Fission, and the Barrier between Normal and Superdeformed States

Chapter 15. a Model for the Decay Out of Superdeformed Bands

Chapter 16. Level Spin and Moments of Inertia in Superdeformed Nuclei near a = 194

Chapter 17. Superdeformed Bands In147gd83, a Possible Test of the Existence of Octupole Correlations in Superdeformed Bands

Session IIIa: Properties of Nuclei at High Spin

Chapter 18. Perturbed and Hidden Bandcrossings

Chapter 19. Double Blocking in Doubly Odd Deformed Nuclei

Chapter 20. Collectively-Rotating Oblate Bands in the A~130 Mass Region

Session IVa: Triaxial Deformation

Chapter 25. What Do We Know about Triaxial Nuclear Shape?

Chapter 26. is theSignature Inersion of Energy Levels Due to the γ-Degree of Freedom?

Chapter 27. K-Selection Or Barrier Penetration?

Session IVb: Octupole Deformation

Chapter 28. Low-Energy Octupole and Dipole Modes in Nuclei

Chapter 29. High-Spin Yrast Isomers in 211rn and 212rn with Enhanced E3 Decays

Chapter 30. Reflection asymmetry in the near Spherical Nucleus, 219fr

Chapter 31. Global Nuclear-Structure Calculations

Session Va: Nuclei Far from Stability

Chapter 32. New Insights into Nuclear Structure from Nuclei Far from Stability

Chapter 33. Mass Measurements of Exotic Fragments

Chapter 34. Neutron Halos and Exotic Modes

Chapter 35. Electric Monopole Transitions and Shape Coexistence in Nuclei

Session Vb: Electromagnetic Properties at High Spin

Chapter 36. Dynamics of Collective Motion

Chapter 37. Lifetime Measurements of High Spin States in Yb Nuclei

Chapter 38. Finite Particle Number Effect in High Spin B(E2)'S

Session VIa: Static and Dynamic Pairing

Chapter 39. How Can We Tell The Transition from the Superconducting to the Normal Phase?

Chapter 40. Pairing Correlations and Two-Nucleon Transfer between Heavy Nuclei

Chapter 41. Chaos in Nuclei

Session VIb: Warm Nuclei . . . T≤1 Mev

Chapter 42. The Population of Superdeformed Bands in the A=150 Region by Compound Reactions

Chapter 43. Fluctuation Analysis of Rotational Motion in Warm Atomic Nuclei

Chapter 44. Study of Spin-Temperature Effects Using Energy-Ordered Continuum Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Technique

Chapter 45. Thermal Shape Fluctuations at Constant Energy

Session VIIa: Nuclei at Higher Temperatures

Chapter 46. Limits of Nuclear Stability at Finite Temperature Explored with Giant Resonances

Chapter 47. Limiting Temperatures for Collective Motion in Nuclei

Session VIIb: Giant Resonances and Their Photon Decay

Chapter 48. Dipole Excitations on the Neutron Drip Line

Chapter 49. Gamma-Decay of Giant Resonances

Chapter 50. Excitation and Photon Decay of Giant Multipole Resonances

Session VIIIa. a Look Forward to the Nineties

Chapter 51. The Gammasphere

Chapter 52. Eurogam - a High Efficiency Escape Suppressed Spectrometer Array

Chapter 53. Development of Composite Ge Detectors for Euroball

Chapter 54. a Survey of Physics to Be Addressed Using Recoil Mass Separators

Session VIIIb: a Look Forward to the Nineties

Chapter 55. New Physics to Be Learned from Radioactive Beams and Nuclear Fragmentation

Chapter 56. Future Physics with a Proposed Radioactive Beam Facility in the United States

Chapter 57. Perspectives in the Study of Nuclear Spectra: Oak Ridge 1990

List of Conference Participants

Author Index