1. Preface

   • Ryugo S. Hayano

   EditorialNotes Pages: IX - IX

2. How exotic are very-ordinary nuclei?

   • Denys Wilkinson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 32

3. Possible new approaches to superheavy elements — the (HI,αχn) reaction and the neutron-rich beam

   • T. Nomura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 41

4. Fast neutron capture reactions in nuclear astrophysics

   • Y. Nagai
   • T. Shima
   • T. Ohsaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 48

5. On the limit of nuclear stability — The region of double magic¹⁰⁰Sn and bound-state β-decay of¹⁸⁷Re⁷⁵⁺

   • P. Kienle

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 58

6. Nuclear laser spectroscopy with on-line ion traps

   • M. Wada
   • I. Katayama
   • S. Ohtani

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 70

7. Order in very cold confined plasmas

   • J. P. Schiffer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 79

8. Towards exotic nuclear matter

   • S. Nagamiya

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 98

9. The search for cosmic strangelets with the supersonic concorde and with JACEE's circumpolar balloon flight in Antarctica

   • Yoshiyuki Takahashi
   • J. N. Capdevielle
   • E. Zager

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 111

10. Partial restoration of chiral symmetry of vector mesons in hot hadronic matter: a possible signature of quark-gluon plasma

    • Kohsuke Yagi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 120

11. Generation of ultra-slow muons for large-scale future applications

    • Kanetada Nagamine

    OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 135

12. Muon-catalyzed fusion and fundamental physics

    • L. I. Ponomarev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 145

13. Transfer of negative muons from hydrogen to oxygen

    • A. Werthmüller
    • A. Adamczak
    • S. Tresch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 155

14. Muonium

    • G. zu Putlitz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 170