Nuclear Shapes and Nuclear Structure at Low Excitation Energies: NATO Science Series B:, cartea 289

I- Introduction.- Introductory Remarks.- Panoramic New Vistas of Nuclei in and near Their Ground States.- Nuclear Shapes and Nuclear Structure at Low Excitation Energies: Theoretical Aspects.- Atomic Physics and Nuclear Properties.- II - Atomic Methods in Nuclear Spectroscopy.- Progress in Atomic Physics Experiments on Nuclear Properties.- Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy of Rare-Earth Elements at Iris Facility.- Atomic Spectroscopy as a Probe of Parity Non-Conserving Effects in the Nucleus.- Isotope Shifts and Hyperfine Structure in Polonium Isotopes by Atomic Beam Laser Spectroscopy.- III- Single Particles Aspect.- Single-Particle Response Function:Complementary Aspects of (e,e’p) and Transfer Reactions.- Intruder States and Low Energy Nuclear Spectroscopy.- Rotational Structures and Residual Interactions in Doubly Odd Nuclei.- Collective and Quasi-Particle Degrees of Freedom in178Hf.- Diabatic Effects and Shape Coexistence in Neutron Deficient Pb Isotopes.- IV - Multiphonon States.- Low-Energy Multiphonon States in Deformed Nuclei.- Low-Lying Vibrational States in Deformed Nuclei.- V - Shapes and Coexistence.- Algebraic Approaches to Nuclear Structure.- Shape Coexistence in the Pb Region.- Population of the Oblate and Prolate Systems in 187Au Produced at Various Beam Energies in Two Different Reactions.- The Shell Model Distribution of Nuclear Shapes.- Magnetic Dipole Excitations of Heavy Nonspherical Nuclei.- VI - Octupoles.- Reflection-Asymmetric Shapes in Atomic Nuclei.- Electric Transition Strengths in Octupole Nuclei Measured by Coulomb Excitation.- Open Questions on the Low-Energy Negative-Parity Excitations.- VII - Superdeformation.- Microscopic Description of Superdeformation at Low Spin.- Superdeformation:An Experimental Review.- Thallium Isotopes:A Setof “Identical” Superdeformed Bands.- Microscopic Description of Quadrupole and Octupole Modes in the Superdeformation Region of 192Hg.- VIII - Exotic Nuclei.- Isospin Forbidden ? Transitions to Low-Lying 0+ States and the Effect on Superallowed Decay Rates.- Nuclei Far from Stability and the R-Process Waiting-Point Concept.- Emission of Neutrons and the Neutron Halo of 11Li.- Search for New Radioactivities at the Proton Drip-Line.- Internal Conversion Anomaly around A=187.- Exploration of the Neutron-Rich Mass Surface from 11Li to 66Fe.- IX - Chaos.- Statistical Properties of Complete Level Schemes.- X - Experimental Techniques.- Nuclear Moments by Orientation Methods.- High-Accuracy Mass Determination of Unstable Rb, Sr, Cs, Ba, Fr and Ra Isotopes with a Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer.- ?-Ray Spectroscopy of Relativistic Fragments:A Novel Technique.- Lifetime Measurements in Medium Heavy Nuclei Using the Gamma Ray Induced Doppler Broadening (GRID) Technique.- Post Acceleration of Radioactive Beams:A New Tool for Nuclear Physics Studies.- In Beam Nuclear Polarization of Radioactive Ion Beams.- XI - Conclusion.- Concluding Remarks.- Participants.