Atomic Masses and Fundamental Constants

1 The Fundamental Constants and Metrology.- The Measurement of Fundamental Constants (Metrology) and Its Effect on Scientific and Technical Progress.- Constantes Physiques et Metrologie.- 2 Gamma rays.- Gamma-Ray Energies for Calibration of Ge(Li) spectrometers.- Primary Standards for Gamma Energy Determinations.- Precision Measurements of Relative ?-Ray Energies with a Curved Crystal Diffractometer.- Visible to Gamma-Ray Wavelength Ratio.- Determination of Proton Binding Energies for 89Y, 90Zr, 91Nb and 93Tc from (p, ?) Reaction Q-values.- A New Method for Measurement of Proton Beam Energies.- 3 Alpha and Beta Decays.- Superallowed ?-decay : From Nuclear Masses to the Z Vector Boson.- Masses of TZ = +5/2 Nuclei in the s-d Shell from ?-Decay Measurements.- Mass Differences of Proton-Rich Atoms near A=116 and A=190 Unisor Consortium.- Total ?-Decay Energies of Nuclei Far from Stability: Evidence for the Wigner Symmetry Energy in Rb and Kr Masses.- Total Beta Decay Energies of Neutron-Rich Fission Products.- Far Beta-Unstable Alpha-Particle Emitting Nuclei.- 4 Nuclear Reactions.- Precision Measurement of Q-values by Means of the Munich Time-of-flight System and the Q3D-Spectrograph.- Measurements of Nuclear Masses Far from Stability.- Some (p,n) and (?,n) Reaction Energies Relevant to Superallowed Beta Decay.- Accurate Q-value Measurements and Masses in the Iron Region.- Precision Energy Measurements with the MSU cyclotron.- New Tests of the Isobaric Multiplet Mass Equation.- Isobaric Mass Quartets.- 5 Mass Spectrometry.- This part is dedicated to the memory of L.G. Smith, 1912-1972. The Mass Spectroscopic Work of L.G. Smith.- L.G. Smith's Precision RF Mass Spectrometer Transferred from Princeton to Delft.- Present Status of the Program of Atomic Mass Determinations at the University of Manitoba.- Recent Doublet Results and Measurement Technique Development at the University of Minnesota.- Double Focussing Mass Spectrometers of Second Order.- On a Two-Stage Double-Focussing Mass Spectroscope under Construction at Osaka University.- Atomic Mass Measurement Using Time-of-Flight Mass Spectroscopy.- Mass Spectrometry of Unstable Nuclei.- The Activities of the II Physical Institute of the University of Giesen in the Investigation of Short-Lived Heavy Nuclei.- Attempts to Obtain Highly Resolved Mass Spectra of Short-Lived Fission Products with the Lohengrin Separator.- 6 Theory of Nuclear Binding Energies.- The Mass Determination in Relation to Nuclear Structure and to the Theory of Nuclear Matter.- Self-Consistent Calculations of Nuclear Total Binding Energies.- Shell and Pairing Effects in Spherical Nuclei Close to the Nucleon Drip Lines.- Hartree-Fock Calculation of Nuclear Binding Energy of Sodium Isotopes.- Nuclear Mass Systematics and Exotic Nuclei.- The Validity of the Strutinsky Method for the Determination of Nuclear Masses.- Nucleon Correlation Effects in Mass Systematics.- 7 Atomic Mass Formulae.- Interpolation Mass Formulae.- Nuclidic Mass Relationships and Mass Equations.- The Liquid Drop Mass Formula as a Shell Model Average.- Magic Neutron-Rich Nuclei and a New Semi-Empirical Shell-Correction Term.- Structure of Nuclear Energy Surface and the Atomic Mass Formula.- Atomic Mass Extrapolations.- 8 Time and Frequency Measurements and the Speed of Light.- Time and Frequency.- Applications of Frequency Standards.- Stabilized Lasers and the Speed of Light.- The Realization of the Second.- Stability and Reproducibility of He-Ne Lasers Stabilized by Saturated Absorption in Iodine.- Performance and Limitations of Iodine Stabilized Lasers.- Reproducibility of Methane- and Iodine-Stabilized Optical Frequency Standards.- Some Experimental Factors Affecting the Reproducibility and Stability of Methane-Stabilized Helium-Neon Lasers.- Molecular Beam Stabilized Argon Laser.- Frequency Stabilization of an Ar+ Laser with Molecular Iodine.- Saturated-Absorption-Stabilized N2O Laser for New Frequency Standards.- Optically Pumped Far-Infrared Laser for Infrared Frequency Measurements.- Two-Photon Lasers.- Light-Shifts Precision Measurements of the O-O Transition in a 133Cs Gas Cell.- 9 Wavelength Comparison.- Comparaison de Longueurs d'Onde a l'Aide d'un Interferometre de Michelson.- Wavelength Intercomparison of Laser Radiations Using Servo-Lock Interferometry.- A Field Compensated Interferometer for Wavelength Comparison.- Determination of New Wavelength Standards in the Infrared by Vacuum Fourier Spectroscopy.- Preliminary Wavelength Measurements of a 127I2 Stabilized Laser at IMGC.- Wavelength Measurements in the UV and Vacuum UV.- 10 The Josephson Effects and 2e/h.- Applications of the Josephson Effect.- A Brief Review of the A C Josephson Effect Determination of 2e/h.- Determination of 2e/h at the BIPM.- 2e/h Determination by Josephson Effect in ETL.- Etape d'une Determination absolue du coefficient 2e/h au LCIE.- Cryogenic Voltage Standard at PTB.- 11 Magnetic Moments.- Review of the Measurement of ?p/?n.- Magnetic Moment of the Proton in H2O in Units of the Bohr Magneton.- A Progress Report on the (g-2) Resonance Experiments.- New Electron and Positron (g-2) Experiments at the University of Michigan.- New Measurement of (g-2) of the Muon.- Status of Anomalous Magnetic Moment Calculations for Electron and Muon.- A New Mass-Spectrometric Method for the Measurement of ?p'.- Experiment with Magnetically Isolated Calculable Solenoid for ?p' Determination.- Determination of the Gyromagnetic Ratio of the Proton ?p'.- A Measurement of the Gyromagnetic Ratio of the Proton by the Strong Field Method.- 12 Miscellaneous Constants.- Recent Estimates of the Avogadro Constant.- Re-evaluation of the Rydberg Constant.- Rydberg Constant Measurement Using CW Dye Laser and H* Atomic Beam.- Fast Beam Measurement of Hydrogen Fine Structure.- A New Determination of the Faraday by Means of the Silver Coulometer.- A Value for the Faraday Based on a High-Precision Coulometric Titration of 4-Aminopyridine.- Initial Results from a New Measurement of the Newtonian Gravitational Constant.- Constants of Electric and Magnetic Polarizibilities of Proton.- A New Determination of the Gas Constant by an Acoustic Technique.- A Determination of the Density and Dilatation of Pure Water of Known Isotopic Composition.- 13 Relativity, Time Variation of the Constants, and Philosophical Considerations.- Recent Solar Oblateness Observations : Data, Interpretation and Significance for Experimental Relativity.- A Laboratory Experiment to Measure the Time Variation of Newton's Gravitational Constant.- An Experimental Limit on the Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant.- Bound on the Secular Variation of the Gravitational Interaction.- Understanding the Fundamental Constants.- 14 Evaluation.- Present Status of Atomic Masses.- Present Status of the Fundamental Constants.- 15 Conference Summary.- Summary of the Conference.