An Advanced Course in Modern Nuclear Physics

✍ Scribed by Robert Vinh Mau (auth.), José M. Arias, Manuel Lozano (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 342
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 581
• Edition: 1
• 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 set of extended lectures on basic and new topics, that gives a tutorial introduction to the field of modern nuclear physics. It is ideally suited to bridging the gap between the standard textbook material and the research literature, and provides the necessary foundation for acting as those who intend to work in any of the many 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....Pages 1-38
The atomic nucleus observed with electromagnetic probes....Pages 39-69
The nuclear shell model....Pages 70-101
The nuclear collective motion....Pages 102-140
The interacting boson model....Pages 141-154
The limits of the mean field....Pages 155-194
The microscopic treatment of the nuclear system....Pages 195-232
Semi-classical methods in nuclear physics....Pages 233-258
Scattering and reactions of halo nuclei....Pages 259-291
Nuclear physics away from the valley of stability....Pages 292-315
Structure of vacuum and elementary matter: from superheavies via hypermatter to antimatter....Pages 316-342

✦ Subjects

Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons;Nuclear Fusion;Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics