Nuclear Physics Concepts in the Study of Atomic Cluster Physics, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Proceedings of the 88th WE-Heraeus-Seminar Held at Bad Honnef, FRG, 26-29 November 1991
Lecture Notes in Physics Series, Vol. 404

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.

Clusters in nuclear physics: From nuclear molecules to cluster radioactivities.- Balian-Bloch supershells for pedestrians.- Selfconsistent calculation of electronic supershells in metal clusters.- Supershells in laser-warmed Na-clusters.- Coexistence of electronic shells and shells of atoms in microclusters.- Magic numbers of Coulomb and Lennard-Jones crystals and quasicrystals.- Clusters as solitons on the nuclear surface.- Fission versus metastable decay series of rare gas cluster ions.- Applications of the liquid drop model to metal clusters.- The dynamical model of the atomic cluster fraqmentation.- Fission of metallic clusters.- Dissociation of doubly-charged alkali-metal clusters.- Projectile break-up in heavy ion collisions: Molecular dynamics for clusters of alpha particles.- Nuclear heavy-ion and atomic cluster-cluster collisions.- Molecular dynamics simulations of cluster-cluster collisions.- Collision-induced reactions of size-selected cluster ions of Ar.- Reactions and fission of clusters.- Molecule-cluster collisions: Reaction of D2 with Ni13.- Vibrational dynamics of large clusters from high resolution He atom scattering.- Collision experiments with C60.- Ion trap studies of ternary and radiative association processes.- Chemical reactions of trapped metal clusters.- Electron scattering and electromagnetic response properties of metal clusters.- Statistical fragmentation of clusters into clusters — in the example of nuclear fragmentation.- Shell effects in cluster-cluster collisions.- Snowballs: Micro-clusters in liquid helium as tools in nuclear and condensed-matter physics.- Collective excitations in silver cluster anions and kations.- RPA in nuclei and metal clusters.- Optical response of doped S1-electron metal clusters.- Collective excitations in large metal clusters.- Quantum molecular interpretation of optical response properties of simple metal clusters.- Photoelectron spectroscopy of alkali metal cluster anions.- Structure and bonding in aluminium and gallium clusters.- Electronic shell structures in aluminum and noble metal clusters.- Correlated electron pairs in metal clusters.- Electronic and atomic structure of simple-metal clusters: Beyond the spherical jellium model.- Shell-model and projected mean-field approach to electronic excitations of atomic clusters.- Dipole excitations of closed-shell alkali-metal clusters.- Some considerations on “isoarithmic” and isoelectronic clusters.- Magnetic properties of transition- and rare-earth metal clusters.