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Theoretical Aspects of Science with Radioactive Nuclear Beams
Physics of radioactive nuclear beams is one of the main frontiers of nuclear
science today. Experimentally, thanks to technological developments, we are on
the verge of invading the territory of extreme N/Z ratios in an unprecedented
way. Theoretically, nuclear exotica represent a formidable challenge for the
nuclear many-body theories and their power to predict nuclear properties in
nuclear terra incognita. It is important to remember that the lesson learned by
going to the limits of the nuclear binding is also important for normal nuclei
from the neighborhood of the beta stability valley. And, of course, radioactive
nuclei are crucial astrophysically; they pave the highway along which the
nuclear material is transported up in the proton and neutron numbers during the
complicated synthesis process in stars.Comment: 26 ReVTeX pages, 11 Postscript figures, uses epsf.sty, to be
published in: Theme Issue on Science with Beams of Radioactive Nuclei,
Philosophical Transactions, ed. by W. Gelletl