Fusion Reactions Below the Coulomb Barrier [electronic resource] : Proceedings of an International Conference Held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, June 13–15, 1984 / edited by S. G. Steadman.

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.