This is the fifth volume in a series of Lecture Notes based on the highly successful Euro Summer School on Exotic Beams.

The aim of these notes is to provide a thorough introduction to radioactive ion-beam physics at the level of graduate students and young postdocs starting out in the field.

Each volume covers a range of topics from nuclear theory to experiment and applications. Vol I has been published as LNP 651, Vol II as LNP 700, Vol. III as LNP 764 and Vol. IV as LNP 879.

Provides a state-of-the-art overview on topics related to radioactive ion beams Edited and authored by leading experts in the field Written in a tutorial style and based on course-tested material

Inhalt

Preface.- Applications of 14 C, the most versatile radionuclide to explore our world (Walter Kutschera).- Nuclear structure probed by strong, weak and electro-magnetic interactions (Yoshitaka Fujita).- Alpha decay and beta-delayed fission: tools for nuclear physics studies (Andrei Andreyev and Piet Van Duppen).- Giant Resonances: Fundamental modes and probes of nuclear properties (Muhsin N. Harakeh).- Hypernuclear spectroscopy and hypernuclear physics with heavy ion beams and fixed targets (Takehiko Saito).- Nuclear Structure and Reactions in Fermionic Molecular Dynamics (Thomas Neff).- Laser-ion acceleration (Peter G. Thirolf).