An Advanced Course in Modern Nuclear Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics, 581)

✍ Scribed by J.M. Arias (editor), M. Lozano (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 342
• Edition: 2001
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The ?eld of nuclear physics is entering the 21st century in an interesting and exciting way. On the one hand, it is changing qualitatively since new experim- tal developments allow us to direct radioactive and other exotic probes to target nuclei as well as to sparko? extremely energetic nuclear collisions. In parallel, detector systems are of an impressive sophistication. It is di?cult to envisage all the discoveries that will be made in the near future. On the other hand, the app- cations of nuclear science and technology are broadening the limits in medicine, industry, art, archaeology, and the environmental sciences, etc. This implies that the public perception of our ?eld is changing, smoothly but drastically, in c- trast to former times where nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants were the dominant applications perceived by citizens. Both aspects, scienti?c dynamism and popular recognition, should lead the ?eld to an unexpected revival. One of the consequences of the former could be that many brilliant students consider nuclear physics as an excellent ?eld in which to acquire professional expertise. Therefore, one of the challenges of the international nuclear physics community is to try to make the ?eld attractive. That means simply being pedagogic and enthusiastic. Thus, as organisers of an already established summer school, our contribution was to put an emphasis in this session on pedagogy and enthusiasm.

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1
1 Introduction
2 Conventional low energy hadron physics
2.1 Meson degrees of freedom
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 + meson exchanges) model
4 Topological solitons and effective lagrangians for non perturbative QCD and the NN forces
4.1 The physics of Skyrme solitons
4.2 Beyond the Skyrme model
5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 2
1 Introduction
2 Leptonic tensor
3 Unpolarized single-arm scattering
4 Single-arm scattering with nuclear polarizations
5 Two-arm coincidence reactions
5.1 Hadronic tensor/no uclear polarizations
5.2 General form of the cross section for exclusive-1 scattering
5.3 Kinematics of exclusive-1 electron scattering
5.4 Polarized electrons and the .fth response function
5.5 Polarized electrons and polarized targets
6 Summary
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 3
1 Introduction
2 Basic notions of the spherical shell model
3 The interaction
3.1 The interaction in second quantization
3.2 Which effective interaction?
3.3 The structure of the hamiltonian
3.4 The monopole hamiltonian
3.5 The multipole hamiltonian
4 The solution of the secular problem
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
6 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 4
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
5 Nuclear deformations
5.1 Nuclear Jahn-Teller effect
5.2 Level crossing
5.3 Vibronic coupling
5.4 Static nuclear deformations
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
Chapter 5
1 Introduction
2 The interacting boson model (IBM-1)
2.1 Building blocks
2.2 Physical operators
2.3 Lie algebra
2.4 Racah form
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)
3.1 Building blocks
3.2 Physical operators
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
Aknowledgments
References
Chapter 6
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
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
Chapter 7
1 Introduction
2 Relativistic mean field theory
3 Relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory
4 Quenching of the spin-orbit splitting
5 The neutron drip-line and halo phenomena
6 The proton drip-line
7 Relativistic mean field theory in the rotating frame
7.1 Superdeformed rotational bands in the Hg region
7.2 Moments of inertia at the ground state
8 Time dependent RMF theory
9 Conclusion and outlook
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 8
1 Introduction
2 The WKB metho in one dimension
3 Feynman path integral
3.1 The time dependent propagator
3.2 The stationary phase approximation
3.3 Historical notes on the stationary phase method
4 The energy representation
4.1 The parabolic potential barrier
4.2 Fusion excitation functions
5 Bremsstrahlung in alpha-decay
6 The Gutzwiller trace formula
7 The Thomas-Fermi and Hartree-Fock approximations
8 Time dependent theory
8.1 Response function of a Fermi fluid
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 9
1 Introduction
1.1 One-neutron halo nuclei
2 Nuclear reaction theory
2.1 Few-body models
2.2 Two-body scattering
3 Formal methods
3.1 The 2-body case
3.2 Target with internal degrees of freedom
3.3 Formal theory of the multi-channel case
3.4 Inelastic scattering and the DWBA
3.5 Practical evaluation of DW matrix elements
4 Scattering of halo nuclei
4.1 Adiabatic approximation
4.2 Special cases
4.3 Applications of the adiabatic 'recoil model'
5 Other applications of the 'recoil model'
5.1 Coulomb break-up of neutron halo nuclei
5.2 Break-up transition amplitude
5.3 Deuteron stripping and pick-up on halo nuclei
6 Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 10
1 Introduction
2 Production of exotic nuclei
2.1 Production reactions
2.2 Production of radioactive beams
2.3 ISOLDE facility at CERN
2.4 Fast beams of radioactive nuclei
3 Spectroscopic investigations of neutron-rich nuclei at magic neutron numbers
3.1 Shell structure
3.2 In-beam experiments with radioactive beams in the N=20 region

4 Heavy ion spectroscopy
4.1 Decay studies
4.2 Recoil decay taggin technique
5 Ion traps.New tools in precision measurements of exotic nuclei
5.1 General
5.2 Mass measurements by Penning traps
5.3 Cooling and bunching of low-energy ion beams
References
Chapter 11
1 From superheavies via hypermatter to antimatter
Acknowledgments
References