Table of Contents

Nuclear structure influences in subbarrier fusion of massive nuclei.- Chaos near the coulomb barrier? - nuclear molecules.- Sub-barrier fusion: Search for experimental signatures by a comparative approach.- Towards a microscopic theory of nuclear barrier penetration.- The role of heavy ion reactions in astrophysics.- Microscopic study of radiative fusion reactions 3He(?,?)7Be and 3H(?,?)7Li at astrophysical low ENERGIES.- The effect of shape-isomeric resonances on the 12C+ 12C fusion cross section and its representation by a double-minimum optical potential*.- Heavy-ion potentials for strongly deformed nuclei.- Systematics of the fusion cross sections for the p-shell nuclei.- Inversion of sub-barrier fusion data.- Spin distributions in heavy ion fusion at and below the Coulomb barrier.- Comparison between microscopic and non-microscopic studies of radiative capture reactions.- Subbarrier fusion in terms of the direct reaction theory.- Gamma multiplicity moments of Ni + Ni sub-barrier fusion reactions.- Fusion and fission in heavy systems near the barrier.- The coupled channels approach to subbarrier fusion reactions.- Investigation of the effect of one-neutron transfer reactions on sub-barrier fusion of S-ions with a ? 100 nuclei.- Sub-barrier fusion - barrier penetration and coupling to intrinsic degrees of freedom.- Fingerprints of the nuclear structure in tunnelling processes.- Effects of internal degrees of freedom on the heavy-ion fusion cross section.- What can we learn from heavy-ion sub-barrier fusion excitation functions?.- Radiative fusion induced by massive nuclei.- Fission fragment angular distributions in the capture reactions 50Ti, 56Fe + 208Pb.- Probing sub-barrier fusion and extra-push by measuring fermium evaporation residues in different heavy ion reactions.- Threshold behaviour in the fusion of massive systems.- Sub-barrier fusion of the systems 28,30Si + 58,62,64Ni.- Fusion excitation functions at near- and sub-coulomb barrier for symmetric and asymmetric medium-mass systems.- The generalized critical distance model for systems with mass asymmetry.- A time-dependent mean-field theory for prompt nucleon emission in heavy-ion reactions.- Sub-barrier fusion of 1H and 4He: Empirical and theoretical barriers for fusion and evaporation.- Fusion with polarized heavy ions.- Polarization in sub-barrier fusion reactions.- Calibration and initial experiments with the ORNL-MIT recoil mass spectrometer.- Sub-barrier fusion of o+sn using a new detection system.- Development of polarized targets for subbarrier fusion studies.- Subbarrier fusion measurements for the system 32S + 238U.- Future perspectives - experimental.