In recent years there have been many advances in the understanding of the nuclear structure and dynamics in the extreme conditions of spin (high angular momentum states), isospin (drip line nuclei) and mass (super heavy elements). There are new challenges in the synthesis and study of nuclei far away from the beta-stability region. This book focuses on the present status and future possibilities in this field and provides the state of the art information on the experimental and theoretical developments.

Foreword / Preface / Physics with radioactive ion beams / Structure of exotic nuclei through nuclear reactions / From halo nuclei to superheavy elements / Breakup reactions of dripline nuclei / Structure of highly excited nuclei and reaction dynamics / Nuclear structure in a non-relativistic mean field approach / Covariant density functional theory and applications for nuclei far from stability / Quest for superheavy nuclei-an overview / Heavy ion fusion-fission reactions near Coulomb- barrier / Fission fragment angular distributions as a probe of fusion-fission dynamics / Structure of light neutron-rich nuclei near and beyond the dripline / Spectroscopy of light unstable nuclei and the change of shells / Disappearance of Z = 82 magicity near proton drip line / Mass model for nuclei in the near and far-off regions of stability and microscopic support from relativistic mean field theory / Group theoretical models for heavy N=Z nuclei / Relativistic mean field plus BCS approach to drip line nuclei/ Microscopic description of superheavies and cluster radioactivity / Contour integral approach to the RPA correlation energy / Nuclear structure studies in relativistic quasiparticle RPA / Signature of quarks in nuclei / Scaling approach to isoscalar giant resonances in relativistic Thomas-Fermi formalism for finite nuclei / Nuclear structure studies from the astrophysical r-processes / The search for hyper deformation in nuclei / Dynamical effects in the decay of the hot rotating nuclei via particle evaporation / Unified description of nucleus-nucleus interaction in decay and scattering / List of Participants.

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