New Horizons in Fundamental Physics

Part I Nuclear Structure and Superheavy Elements: Intertwining of Greiner's Theoretical Works and our Experimental Studies (J.H. Hamilton et al.).- Eighty years of research on super-heavy nuclei (S. Hofmann).- Perspectives of heavy and superheavy nuclei research (A.V. Karpov et al.).- Superheavy Element Chemistry - New experimental results challenge theoretical understanding (R. Eichler).- 25 Years of FRS Experiments and New Horizons (H. Geissel et al.).- SHE Research with Rare-Isotope Beams, Challenges and Perspectives, and the new Generation of SHE Factories (G. Munzenberg et al.).- Multi-modal Collinear Ternary Fission (W. von Oertzen et al.).- From the stable to the exotic: clustering in light nuclei (C. Beck).- Towards Laser Spectroscopy of Superheavy Elements (H. Backe).- Part II Physics of Heavy-Ion Collisions: Chemical freeze-out conditions in hadron resonance gas (V. Vovchenko et al.).- The QCD Phase Diagram and Hadron Formation in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions (F. Becattini et al.).- Degrees of Freedom of the Quark Gluon Plasma, tested by Heavy Mesons (H. Berrehrah et al.).- Electromagnetic emissivity of hot and dense matter (E.L. Bratkovskaya at al.).- Heavy-Ion Collisions: Status of Chemical Equilibrium (J. Cleymans).- Novel developments of HYDJET++ model for ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions (L. Bravina et al.).- Jet tomography in heavy-ion collisions-Challenges, Results, and Open Problems (B. Betz).- Part III QED - Strong Fields and High Precision: Probing QED Vacuum with Heavy Ions (J. Rafelski et al.).- Laser assisted Breit-Wheeler and Schwinger processes (T. Nousch et al.).- A method to measure vacuum birefringence at FCC-ee (U.I. Uggerhoj et al.).- Unifying Quantum Electro-Dynamics and Many-Body Perturbation Theory (I. Lindgren et al.).- Part IV Astrophysics: Simulations of accretion disks around massive stars (M. Algalan et al.).-Neutron Stars-Possibilities and Limits for Exotic Phases (S. Schramm et al.).- The Case for an Underground Neutrino Facility in South Africa (Z.Z. Vilakazia et al.).- Part IV Special topics: Covariant Hamiltonian representation of Noether's theorem and its application to SU(N) gauge theories (J. Struckmeier et al.).- Infrastructure Estimates for a Highly Renewable Global Electricity Grid (M. Dahl et al.).- Power flow tracing in complex networks (M. Schafer et al.).- Patent protection of high-level research results (T. J. Burvenich).