This book is based on Valery Zagrebaev's original papers and lecture materials on nuclear
physics with heavy ions which he prepared and extended through many years for the students of
nuclear physics specialties.Th¿ book outlines the main experimental facts on nuclear reactions
involving heavy ions at low energies. It focuses on discussions of nuclear physics processes
that are a subject of active modern research and it gives illustrative explanations of these
phenomena in the framework of up-to-date theoretical concepts.This textbook is intended for
students in physics who have completed a standard course of quantum mechanics and have basic
ideas of nuclear physics processes.It is designed as a kind of lifeboat that at the end of the
course will allow students to navigate the modern scientific literature and to understand the
goals and objectives of current on-going research.
