Physics Division annual review, 1 April 1978-31 March 1979

A broad review is presented of work in the areas of nuclear physics research (the superconducting linac; medium-energy physics; heavy-ion research at the tandem and superconducting linac accelerators - resonant structures in heavy-ion reactions, fusion cross sections, high-angular-momentum-states in nuclei; charged-particle research; accelerator operations and development; neutron and photonuclear physics; theoretical physics - heavy-ion direct reactions, nuclear shell theory and nuclear structure, nuclear matter, intermediate-energy physics, dense nuclear matter and classical calculations of the high-energy collisions of heavy ions; radiative transitions and nuclear resonance reactions experimental atomic and molecular physics research (dissociation and other interactions of energetic molecular ions in solid and gaseous targets, beam-foil research and collision dynamics of heavy ions, photoionization-photon-electron research, spectroscopy of free atoms, Moessbauer effect research, monochromatic x-ray beam project); and applied physics (interaction of energetic particles with solids scanning secondary-ion microprobe). Most of the reports are quite brief (about a page); 24 pages of references are included. 21 items with significant amounts of information are abstracted individually. (RWR