Evidence of non-statistical structures in the elastic and inelastic scattering of58Ni+58Ni and58Ni+62Ni and intermediate dinuclear states

Excitation functions and angular distributions of58Ni+58Ni and58Ni+62Ni scattering at energies just above the Coulomb barrier have been measured aroundθcm=90° in energy stepsΔEcm=0.25 MeV fromEcm ⋍ 110 MeV toEcm ⋍ 120 MeV for58Ni+58Ni and fromEcm ⋍ 110 MeV toEcm ⋍ 118 MeV for58Ni+62Ni. Evidence for structure of non-statistical character has been found in the angle-summed excitation functions; this evidence is corroborated by the analysis of the angular distributions. This is the first time that non-statistical structure in elastic and inelastic scattering is reported with high confidence level for this mass and excitation energy ranges. Attempts are presented to understand the nature of this structure, including the presence of intermediate dinuclear states and virtual states in a potential well

GIUSEPPE DOSSETTI STUDIES ON AN ITALIAN CATHOLIC REFORMER

Giuseppe Dossetti is a name barely known outside Italy. Some may remember his role within the Christian Democratic Party in the early years of the Italian Republic. Readers familiar with the history of the Second Vatican Council may have heard his name as one of its most important ghost writers and theologians. However, to most, his biography remains more or less unknown. One the purposes by the John XXIII Foundation - created by Dossetti in 1953 - was to fill this gap with papers presented to the 2006 Bologna conference, for the decennial of Dossetti's death. Among them the most important for an international readership are gathered in this volume