This book is based on Valery Zagrebaev's original papers and lecture materials on nuclear physics with heavy ions, which he prepared and extended through many years for the students of nuclear physics specialties. Thе book outlines the main experimental facts on nuclear reactions involving heavy ions at low energies. It focuses on discussions of nuclear physics processes that are a subject of active, modern research and it gives illustrative explanations of these phenomena in the framework of up-to-date theoretical concepts. This textbook is intended for students in physics who have completed a standard course of quantum mechanics and have basic ideas of nuclear physics processes. It is designed as a kind of lifeboat that, at the end of the course, will allow students to navigate the modern scientific literature and to understand the goals and objectives of current, on-going research.

Combining elastic and inelastic processes with transfer reactions, this two-part volume explores how these events affect heavy ion collisions. Special attention is given to processes involving the transfer of two nucleons, which are specific for probing pairing correlations in nuclei. This novel treatment provides, together with the description of surface vibration and rotations, a unified picture of heavy ion reactions in terms of the elementary modes of nuclear excitation. Heavy Ion Reactions is essential reading for beginning graduate students as well as experienced researchers.

Heavy ion reaction is a fast growing subject of nuclear physics. Heavy ions are the nuclei equal to or heavier than the alpha-particle. In this book, heavy ion reactions study within the dynamical cluster-decay model (DCM) and its simplified version -summed extended-Wong model of Gupta and collaborators, with deformation and orientations effects included and nuclear proximity potential derived from semi-classical extended Thomas Fermi model based on Skyrme energy density formalism, from different mass regions of Periodic Table are presented. The main aim of this work is to examine the fusion hindrance phenomenon via the modification of barrier in terms of, orientations of nuclei, the defining parameters of the Fermi density, or the Skyrme force parameters themselves. This book further advances the dynamics of heavy ion reaction. This work will be of interest to the nuclear physicists all over the globe.