This book provides an overview of the current understanding of clustering phenomena in nuclear structure and nuclear dynamics. The topics covered include: fundamental aspects of nuclear clustering, models of nucleon clusterization, clustering aspects of nuclear structure, selected topics on clustering aspects in medium- and high-energy nucleus–nucleus collisions.

Contents:

• Structure of Vacuum and Elementary Matter (W Greiner)
• 30 Years of Clusters in Nuclear Physics (W von Oertzen)
• Discrete Ambiguities in the Cluster-Cluster Interaction and Supersymmetry (D Baye & J-M Sparenberg)
• Forty Years of Nuclear Molecules (R R Betts)
• The Six-Alpha Chain State Story from Strasbourg to Rab (B R Fulton)
• The Utility of a Microscopic Cluster Description in Light Halo and Hypernuclei (Y Suzuki)
• Cluster Formation Dynamics in Medium-Energy Nuclear Collisions (A Ono)
• Statistical Exploration of Fragmentation Phase Space in Nuclear Multifragmentation (L G Moretto et al.)
• Clusters and Nuclear Flow (W Reisdorf)
• Theory of Nuclear Reactions Leading to Superheavy Elements (Y Abe)
• Nuclear Clusters on the Equilibration and Phase Transition in Spectator Reactions (W Trautmann)
• Discovering Superheavy Elements (G Münzenberg)
• Supershort Mode in the Fission of Superheavy Nuclei in Subbarrier Fusion Reactions (M G Itkis et al.)
• Nuclear Clusters on the Eve of the Third Millennium (H Horiuchi)
• and other papers