Latest advances in atomic cluster collisions structure and dynamics from the nuclear to the biological scale (Imperial College Press, 2008)
"The Second International Symposium 'Atomic Cluster Collisions: Structure and dynamics from the nuclear to the biological scale' (ISACC 2007) was organized as a satellite meeting of the XXVth International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC 2007, Freiburg, Germany) by the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) and was held on July 19-23, 2007 at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany. ISACC was recognized by the European Physical Society (EPS) as a Europhysics Conference"--P. v
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Pt. A. Clustering phenomena at nuclear and subnuclear scales. Heaviest nuclei from [symbol]Ca-induced reactions. Production and decay of superheavy nuclei. clustering phenomena in fission and fusion processes of heavy nuclei. Nuclear molecules. Properties of heavy and superheavy nuclei in supernova environments -- Pt. B. Structure and properties of atomic clusters. Clusters, quantum confinement and energy storage. Site-specific analysis of response properties of sodium clusters. Magnetism in clusters. Strontium clusters: electronic and geometry shell effects. New deformed single-particle shell model --
- Pt. C. Electron, photon and ion cluster collisions. Top rotors in electric fields: influence of the asymmetry, the flexibility and the structure of the molecules. Electron scattering on neon droplets: singly and multiply charged neon clusters. Dynamical screening of an atom confined within a finite-width fullerene. Photoionization and fragmentation of fullerene ions. Collision of transition metal cluster ions with simple molecules -- Pt. D. Clusters on a surface. Infrared spectroscopy and thermal desorption study of vanadium-Mesitylene 1:2 sandwich clusters soft-landed onto a long-chain N-alkanethiolate self-assembled monolayer. Simulation of the nanoindentation procedure on pure nickel on the smallest length scale: a simple atomistic level model --
- Pt. E. Phase transitions, fusion, fission and fragmentation in finite systems. Quantum Structuring of [symbol]He atoms around ionic dopants: energetics of Li[symbol], Na[symbol] and K[symbol] from stochastic calculations. On the theory of phase transitions in polypeptides. Translational kinetic energy released in the dissociative cascade of charged rare-gas clusters: hints for finite size phase transitions? -- Pt. F. Clusters in laser fields. Dynamics of metal clusters: free, embedded and deposited. Phase, amplitude, and polarization shaping by interferometric pulse generation -- Pt. G. Clustering phenomenon in system of various degrees of complexity. Electron-positron clusters: structure and stability. Spectroscopy of neutral retinal and GFP chromophores in the gas phase. The energy landscape as a computational tool --