Advanced Course in Modern Nuclear Physics

✍ Scribed by J.M. Arias, M. Lozano

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 343
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The field of nuclear physics is entering the 21st century while experiencing a strong revival. On the one hand it is changing qualitatively through new experimental developments that allow us to direct radioactive and other exotic probes to target nuclei and spark off extremely energetic nuclear collisions. Also, the impressive sophistication of new detector systems leads us to expect a number of new discoveries in the near future. On the other hand many new applications have appeared in fields as diverse as medicine, industry, art, archaeology and the environmental sciences. This book is a tutorial introduction to the field of modern nuclear physics. It can bridge the gap between standard textbook material and research literature for those who intend to work in any of the disciplines where nuclear science and technology is going to play an important role in the future.

✦ Table of Contents

The theory of the nucleon-nucleon interaction
1 Introduction
2 Conventional low energy hadron physics
2.1 Meson degrees of freedom
The One Pion Exchange Potential (OPEP)
The 4th order Two Pion Exchange Potential (TPEP)
The One Boson Exchange Potential (OBEP)
2.2 Isobar degrees of freedom
2.3 The NN potentials from hadronic degrees of freedom
2.4 Recent tests of NN potential models
3 Quark degrees of freedom
3.1 The quark cluster model (QCM) and the NN interaction
3.2 The hybrid (quark -f- meson exchanges) model
4 Topological solitons and effective lagrangians for non perturbative QCD and the TV TV forces
4.1 The physics of Skyrme solitons
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4.1 Lanczos strength functions
4.2 Other approaches
5 Miscellaneous applications
5.1 Quenching of spin operators in the nucleus
5.2 Shell model description of deformation and superdeformation
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6 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
The nuclear collective motion
1 Introduction
2 The territory
3 The nuclear many-body problem:
towards the unified description of the nucleus
4 Nuclear modes and their time scales
Coexistence of collective and noncollective motion
triaxial superdeformed
band Oq o° bands
Energy (MeV)
5 Nuclear deformations
5.1 Nuclear Jahn-Teller effect
5.2 Level crossing
5.3 Vibronic coupling
5.4 Static nuclear deformations
Symmetry breaking
6 Shell structure
6.1 Examples of nuclear deformations
7 Far from stability
8 Nucleus as a finite many-body system
9 Summary
Acknowledgments
References
The interacting boson model
1 Introduction
2 The interacting boson model (IBM-1)
2.1 Building blocks
2.2 Physical operators
2.3 Lie algebra
2.5 Physical operators in Racah form
2.6 Analytic solutions
2.7 Numerical solutions
2.8 Geometrical aspects
2.9 Summary
3 The proton-neutron interacting boson model (IBM-2)
3.3 Coupled Lie algebras
3.4 Analytic solutions
3.5 Numerical solutions
3.6 Mixed symmetry states
3.7 Geometrical aspects
3.8 Summary
4 The interacting boson-fermion model
5 Nuclear structure beyond 2000
6 Conclusions
References
The limits of the mean field
1 Introduction. The n-body problem
2 Self-consistent mean field theory
for particles and quasiparticles
2.1 Hartree—Fock approach
2.2 Hartree—Fock—Bogoliubov approach
2.3 BCS approximation
3 Static HF or HFB solutions
and restoration of symmetries
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4 Collective modes and the adiabatic time dependent Hartree—Fock approach
4.1 ATDHF
4.2 Quantization
4.3 Generator coordinate method
5 Relativistic bound nucleon dynamics probed by quasielastic electron scattering
Acknowledgments
References
The microscopic treatment of the nuclear system
1 Introduction
2 Relativistic mean field theory
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