Physics of Strong Fields

1. Front Matter

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2. Strong Fields in Perspective

   • Walter Greiner

   Pages 1-15

3. Status of Precision QED in Light and Heavy Atoms

   • Peter J. Mohr

   Pages 17-41

4. The Many Facets of the Dirac Vacuum

   • Berndt Müller

   Pages 43-57

5. Are the Positron Peaks Caused by Internal Electron-Positron Pair Conversion?

   • G. Soff, P. Schlüter, W. Greiner

   Pages 59-80

6. Atomic Clock Phenomena in Collisions of Very Heavy Ions

   • G. Soff, T. de Reus, U. Müller, J. Reinhardt, B. Müller, W. Greiner

   Pages 81-110

7. Narrow Correlated Positron-Electron Peaks from Superheavy Collision Systems

   • Thomas E. Cowan, Jack S. Greenberg

   Pages 111-194

8. Investigation of Positron Line Emission in Heavy Ion Collisions with the EPOS-Spectrometer

   • H. Bokemeyer

   Pages 195-251

9. Special Aspects of the EPOS Experiments on Positron Emission from Superheavy Collision Systems

   • K. E. Stiebing

   Pages 253-264

10. Spectroscopy of Positrons from Heavy Ion — Atom Collisions

    • C. Kozhuharov

    Pages 265-280

11. Positron Emission from Subcritical Systems

    • E. Berdermann, F. Bosch, M. Clemente, M. Franosch, S. Huchler, J. Kemmer et al.

    Pages 281-304

12. The Consequences of Sudden Rearrangements of Electronic Shells

    • T. de Reus, G. Soff, O. Graf, W. Greiner

    Pages 305-314

13. Are the GSI Events Caused by Particle Decay?

    • Joachim Reinhardt, Berndt Müller, Walter Greiner, Andreas Schäfer

    Pages 315-347

14. On the Possibility of New Particle Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions

    • A. B. Balantekin

    Pages 349-357

15. Quasiatomic Spectroscopy as a Tool for Deep Inelastic Collisions

    • Egbert Kankeleit

    Pages 359-371

16. Positrons and Electrons Emitted in Elastic and Dissipative Heavy Ion Collisions

    • H. Oeschler, B. Blank, E. Bożek, U. Gollerthan, H. Jäger, E. Kankeleit et al.

    Pages 373-391

17. Do Nucleons Dissolve in Giant Nuclei?

    • D. Vasak, Ch. Derreth, Q. Zhang, A. Schäffer, M. Grabiak, S. Schramm et al.

    Pages 393-404

18. Vacuum Vibrations

    • R. H. Lemmer, Walter Greiner

    Pages 405-409

19. Quantum Mechanical Treatment of Heavy-Ion Collisions

    • S. Schramm, J. Reinhardt, U. Müller, B. Müller, W. Greiner

    Pages 411-421

20. Nuclear Contact Times in Dissipative Heavy Ion Collsions Measured Via γ-Ray Spectroscopy

    • P. Senger, H. Backe, M. Begemann-Blaich, H. Bokemeyer, P. Glässel, D. v. Harrach et al.

    Pages 423-439

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on Physios of St~ong Fields was held at Maratea/Italy from 1-14 June, 1986. The school was devoted to the advances, theoretical and experimental, in physics of strong fields made during the past five years. The topic of the first week was almost exclusively quantum electrodynamics, with dis­ cussions of symmetry breaking in the ground state, of the physics of strong fields in heavy ion collisions and of precision tests of perturba­ tive quantum electrodynamics. The famous positron lines found at GSI (Darmstadt) and the related question "new particle versus vacuum decay" - (yes or no or both) - constituted the center of experimental advances. This was followed in the second week by the presentation of a broad range of other areas where strong fields occur, reaching from nuclear physics over quantum chromodynamics to gravitation theory and astrophysics. We were fortunate to be able to calIon a body of lecturers who not only made considerable personal contributions to this research but who are also noted for their lecturing skills. Their enthusiasm and dedication for their work was readily transmitted to the students resulting in a very suc­ cessful school.

• Antimatter
• Baryon
• Potential
• Quark
• hadron

• Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany

  Walter Greiner

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