AKITO ARIMA MEMORIAL VOLUME

This memorial volume honors the life and work of Akito Arima (1930–2020), a distinguished physicist and educator who made significant contributions to nuclear physics and beyond. Through a series of heartfelt essays, personal recollections, and scientific papers, this book reflects Arima's profound influence on the field and his legacy in shaping global scientific discourse. Arima is best known for his development of the Interacting Boson Model and his pioneering work on nuclear structure, which laid the groundwork for much of today's research in nuclear theory. Additionally, his efforts in improving the educational landscape in Japan and his advocacy for scientific policy made him an instrumental figure in both the scientific community and politics. The contributions in this volume explore a wide range of topics, from the technical aspects of nuclear physics to his role in shaping science policy, with a particular focus on his lasting impact on academia, research, and society. Through tributes from students, colleagues, and friends, the book provides a comprehensive look at a remarkable career and the enduring legacy of a scientist whose influence transcended the laboratory.

Contents:

• Preface (T T S Kuo, T Otsuka, J Vary and K K Phua)
• Memory of Professor Akito Arima (Koichi Yazaki)
• Memorial Episodes of Professor Akito Arima, Related to the RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory Project (Yasushige Yano)
• As a Student of Arima (Nobuaki Yoshida)
• Photos
• Effect of Ground-State Shape Deformation on the Collective Excitations in Even-Mass Nd Isotopes (M Abdullah, D Das, S Bagchi, and M N Harakeh)
• Relations Between Three-Particle Interactions in Nuclear Matter to Observable Quantities (Wolfgang Bentz and Ian C Cloët)
• The Quenching of Spin- and Spin-Isospin-Dependent Operators in Nuclear Structure: Present Microscopic Approach (L Coraggio and N Itaco)
• In Memoriam Akito Arima: The Electron Neutrino Mass by Electron Capture (Amand Faessler)
• Akito Arima and Pseudospin Symmetry (Joseph N Ginocchio)
• Memories of Argonne National Laboratory in 1963 (A M Green, retired)
• The Role of Dynamic Symmetries in Nuclei (Francesco Iachello)
• The Spin–Orbit Interaction in the Interacting Boson Model (P Van Isacker)
• Alpha-clustering Structure of the Light Nuclei and its Impact on Astrophysics and Cosmology (Toshitaka Kajino, Xingqun Yao, Zhenyu He, Motohiko Kusakabe, Yuta Yamazaki, Yudong Luo, and Kanji Mori)
• Arima Sensei's Contribution to Japan's Science and Technology Policies (Minoru Kuniya)
• Effective Operators for Valence Space Calculations from the Ab Initio No-Core Shell Model (Zhen Li, N A Smirnova, A M Shirokov, I J Shin, B R Barrett, P Maris, and J P Vary)
• Akito Arima's Growing Legacy in Numerical Lattice QCD (Shigemi Ohta)
• Spin-Flavor SU(6) Symmetry for Baryon-Baryon Interactions (Makoto Oka)
• Resemblance Between the Quantum Many-Body System and the Many-Human-Being System (Takaharu Otsuka)
• Nuclear Mass Table with the Deformed Relativistic Continuum Density Functional Theory (C Pan, K Y Zhang, S Q Zhang, and J Meng)
• Quests of Spin-Isospin Responses: A Tribute to Akito Arima (Hideyuki Sakai)
• Spin-dependent Modes in Nuclei and Astrophysical Processes (Toshio Suzuki)
• Harmonic Oscillator Wave Functions in the Nuclear Shell Model (Igal Talmi)
• Symmetries in Subatomic Systems — Searching for Six Quark Clusters in Nuclei (J D Vergados and D Strottman)
• Back and Forth with Akito Arima (Larry Zamick and Castaly Fan)
• Simple Relations of Atomic Masses (Zhao)

Readership: Scientists in modern physics.