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Transition-Edge Sensors
In recent years, superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) have emerged as powerful, energy-resolving detectors of single photons from the near...
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Survey of Current Theoretical Schemes
With a view to the growing interest in heavy-ion stop**, theoretical schemes have been developed over the past few years aiming at calculating...
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Statistics of Particle Penetration
The importance of statistical considerations in the physics of particle penetration has been emphasized in particular by Bohr (1948). An extensive...
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In-Flight Separation of Projectile Fragments
The in-flight or direct production of secondary beams of radioactive ions is discussed. Two reaction mechanisms, fragmentation and fission of fast...
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Nuclear Reactions with Exotic Beams
We review different aspects of the physics involved in reactions induced by exotic nuclear beams. These include, in particular, effects associated...
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Methods and Instrumentation
On the basis of the given brilliances of present-day synchrotron radiation sources one easily estimates that they should be ideally suited for...
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Medical Applications of Accelerated Ions
Accelerated ions have significant advantages for radiotherapy. From the physical side these are the inverse depth dose profile (the increase of the...
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Weak Interaction Studies by Precision Experiments in Nuclear Beta Decay
The framework and formalism related to the study of symmetries and the structure of the weak interaction in nuclear β-decay are presented and...
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Experiments with Radioactive Nuclear Beams
These lectures concern experiments with radioactive ion beams. After a brief historical overview, the different production methods for radioactive...
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Coherent Elastic Nuclear Resonant Scattering
In the field of x-ray diffraction, the intensity and the direction of scattered waves are determined by the properties of the individual scatterers...
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The Why and Howof Radioactive-Beam Research
Research with radioactive ion beams has entered in the last decade a new era with the advent of energetic beams of radioactive nuclei which can...
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Traps for Rare Isotopes
Ion traps are widely used in fundamental and applied research. Over the past decade they have also gained significance as tools in experimental...
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Equation of State of Hypernuclear Matter and Neutron Stars
These lectures contain a pedagogical introduction to the equation of state of nuclear matter and to the structure of neutron stars. Particular...
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Nuclear Astrophysics: Selected Topics
The lectures try to summarize a few of the recent developments in nuclear astrophysics. Among those are the confirmation of the solar model and their...
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Introduction
The scattering of x-rays is a very powerful tool to investigate the structure and dynamics of condensed matter. The research in this field can be...
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Outlook and Perspectives
Nuclear resonant scattering has significantly benefitted from the development of third-generation synchrotron radiation sources. This trend will...
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General Aspects of Nuclear Resonant Scattering
Nuclear resonant scattering (NRS) unites a number of different scattering processes that can be used to investigate properties of condensed matter....
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Nuclear Stop**
Nuclear stop**, i.e., energy transfer to recoiling nuclei, accounts for less than 0.05 % of all energy loss at projectile speeds above the orbital...
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Introduction
Quantitative information on the penetration of swift ions through matter, in particular the systematics of energy loss, is of considerable interest...
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Beyond the Proton Drip-Line
Recent advances in the process of delimiting the proton drip-line are discussed. Special emphasis is given to the phenomena of proton radioactivity...