New Horizons in Fundamental Physics

Part I. Nuclear Structure and Superheavy Elements

1. Intertwining of Greiner’s Theoretical Works and Our Experimental Studies
J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, E. H. Wang

2. Eighty Years of Research on Super-Heavy Nuclei
Sigurd Hofmann

3. Perspectives of Heavy and Superheavy Nuclei Research
A. V. Karpov, V. I. Zagrebaev, W. Greiner

4. Superheavy Element Chemistry—New Experimental Results Challenge TheoreticalUnderstanding
R. Eichler

5. 25 Years of FRS Experiments and New Horizons
H. Geissel, G. Münzenberg, C. Scheidenberger

6. SHE Research with Rare-Isotope Beams, Challenges and Perspectives, and the New Generation of SHE Factories
G. Münzenberg, H. M. Devaraja, T. Dickel, H. Geissel, M. Gupta, S. Heinz, S. Hofmann, W. R. Plass, C. Scheidenberger, J. S. Winfield, M. Winkler

7. Multi-modal Collinear Ternary Fission
W. Oertzen, A. K. Nasirov

8. From the Stable to the Exotic: Clustering in Light Nuclei
C. Beck

9. Towards Laser Spectroscopy of Superheavy Elements
H. Backe

Part II. Physics of Heavy-Ion Collisions

10. Chemical Freeze-Out Conditions in Hadron Resonance Gas
V. Vovchenko, M. I. Gorenstein, L. M. Satarov, H. Stöcker

11. The QCD Phase Diagram and Hadron Formation in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
Francesco Becattini, Marcus Bleicher, Jan Steinheimer, Reinhard Stock

12. Degrees of Freedom of the Quark Gluon Plasma, Tested by Heavy Mesons
H. Berrehrah, M. Nahrgang, T. Song, V. Ozvenchuck, P. B. Gossiaux, K. Werner, E. Bratkovskaya, J. Aichelin

13. Electromagnetic Emissivity of Hot and Dense Matter
E. L. Bratkovskaya, O. Linnyk, W. Cassing

14. Heavy-Ion Collisions: Status of Chemical Equilibrium
J. Cleymans

15. Novel Developments of HYDJET++ Model for Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
L. Bravina, B. H. Brusheim Johansson, J. Crkovská, G. Eyyubova, V. Korotkikh, I. Lokhtin, L. Malinina, E. Nazarova, S. Petrushanko, A. Snigirev, E. Zabrodin

16. Jet Tomography in Heavy-Ion Collisions—Challenges, Results, and Open Problems
Barbara Betz

Part III. QED—Strong Fields and High Precision

17. Probing QED Vacuum with Heavy Ions
Johann Rafelski, Johannes Kirsch, Berndt Müller, Joachim Reinhardt, Walter Greiner

18. Laser Assisted Breit-Wheeler and Schwinger Processes
T. Nousch, A. Otto, D. Seipt, B. Kämpfer, A. I. Titov, D. Blaschke, A. D. Panferov, S. A. Smolyansky

19. A Method to Measure Vacuum Birefringence at FCC-ee
Ulrik I. Uggerhøj, Tobias N. Wistisen

20. Unifying Quantum Electro-Dynamics and Many-Body Perturbation Theory
Ingvar Lindgren, Sten Salomonson, Johan Holmberg

Part IV. Astrophysics

21. Simulations of Accretion Disks Around Massive stars
M. B. Algalán, P. O. Hess, W. Greiner

22. Neutron Stars—Possibilities and Limits for Exotic Phases
S. Schramm, V. Dexheimer, R. Mallick

23. The Case for an Underground Neutrino Facility in South Africa
Z. Z. Vilakazi, S. M. Wyngaardt, R. T. Newman, R. Lindsay, A. Buffler, R. Meijer, P. Maleka, J. Bezuidenhout, R. Nchodu, M. Rooyen, Z. Ndlovu

Part V. Special Topics

24. Covariant Hamiltonian Representation of Noether’s Theorem and Its Application to SU(N) Gauge Theories
Jürgen Struckmeier, Horst Stöcker, David Vasak

25. Infrastructure Estimates for a Highly Renewable Global Electricity Grid
Magnus Dahl, Rolando A. Rodriguez, Anders A. Søndergaard, Timo Zeyer, Gorm B. Andresen, Martin “Walterson” Greiner

26. Power Flow Tracing in Complex Networks
Mirko Schäfer, Sabrina Hempel, Jonas Hörsch, Bo Tranberg, Stefan Schramm, Martin Greiner

27. Patent Protection of High-Level Research Results
Thomas J. Bürvenich

Keywords: Physics, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction, Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks, Astrophysics and Astroparticles