Latest advances in atomic cluster collisions : structure and dynamics from the nuclear to the biological scale / editors, Jean-Patrick Connerade, Andrey Solov'yov.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- pt. H. Structure and dynamics of biomolecules. Theoretical framework for the interpretation of NMR residual dipolar couplings of unfolded proteins. Computational simulations of antibody: antigen unbinding. Iron mineral based magnetoreception mechanism in birds. Biophysical modeling of fragment distributions of DNA plasmids after heavy ion irradiation -- pt. I. From biomolecules to cells and system biology. Towards Monte Carlo calculations of biological dose in heavy-ion therapy: modeling of nuclear fragmentation reactions. Mechanisms of radiation damage of biomolecules. On modeling of gene expression patterns in the Drosophila embryo by the gene circuit method.

This book presents a "snapshot" of the most recent and significant advances in the field of cluster physics. It is a comprehensive review based on contributions by the participants of the 2nd International Symposium on Atomic Cluster Collisions (ISACC 2007) held in July 19-23, 2007 at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany. The purpose of the Symposium is to promote the growth and exhange of scientific information on the structure and properties of nuclear, atomic, molecular, biological and complex cluster systems studied by means of photonic, electronic, heavy particle and atomic collisions. Particular attention is devoted to dynamic phenomena, many-body effects taking place in cluster systems of a different nature - these include problems of fusion and fission, fragmentation, collective electron excitations, phase transitions, etc. Both the experimental and theoretical aspects of cluster physics, uniquely placed between nuclear physics on the one hand and atomic, molecular and solid state physics on the other, are discussed.

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