The Hispalensis Lectures on Nuclear Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics, 652)

✍ Scribed by Jose Miguel Arias (editor), Manuel Lozano (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 298
• Edition: 2004
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Powerful new techniques, including heavy ion and exotic beams, are pushing the frontiers of nuclear physics and opening up a wealth of new fields of research. After introductory chapters on theoretical and experimental aspects of nuclear collisions and beams, ``Exotic Nuclear Physics'' offers articles by experienced lecturers on forefront topics in nuclear physics, such as the conquest of the neutron and the proton drip-lines, nuclear astrophysics, the equation of state of hypernuclear matter, nuclear supersymmetry and chaotic motion in nuclei. This volume continues the successful tradition of published lecture notes from the Hispalensis International Summer School. It will benefit graduate students and lecturers in search of advanced material for self-study and courses as will as researchers in search of a modern and comprehensive source of reference.

✦ Table of Contents

front-matter
Chapter 1
1 Introduction
2 High-Energy Scattering: Hadronic Picture
2.1 General Framework
2.2 The Eikonal and Glauber Models
2.3 Shadowing Corrections in the Inclusive Cross-Section
2.4 Space-Time Development of the Interaction: Absence of Intra-nuclear Cascade
2.5 Regge Poles: The Pomeron
3 Microscopic String Models
3.1 Hadron-Hadron Interactions
3.2 Nucleus-Nucleus Interactions
3.3 Charged Particle Multiplicities
4 Nuclear Stopping
5 Hyperon and Antihyperon Production

7 Conclusions
Appendix A
Chapter 2
1 Introduction
2 Theoretical Background
3 Experimental Program and Global Observables
4 Particle Yields and Their Statistical Description
5 Charmonium and Charmed Hadrons
6 Outlook
Chapter 3
1 Introduction: Physics of Nuclear Binding and Stability
2 Exploring the Nuclear Many-Body System: Learning from the Past
3 Theoretical Approaches for Describing Atomic Nuclei near Stability
3.1 The Study of Very Light Systems
3.2 The Nuclear Shell-Model Approximation
3.3 Mean-Field Methods
3.4 Nuclear Symmetries
3.5 What Have We Learned
4 How Far Can One Extrapolate the Nuclear Shell-Model?
5 Exploring the Nuclear Many-Body System: Recent Experimental Results

5.2 Halo Structure: Back to Good Old Quantum Mechanics
5.3 Proton-Rich Nuclei: Proton Radioactivity and Other Phenomena
5.4 Nuclear Masses: State-of-the-Art Results
5.5 Nuclear Astrophysics
5.6 The Heaviest Nuclei and Beyond
5.7 Weak Interactions and Symmetries in the Basic Laws of Physics
6 Outlook
Chapter 4
1 Introduction
2 Production and Acceleration of Exotic Nuclei
2.1 The Early Years
2.2 The Main Methods for Production of Exotic Nuclei
3 Experimental Studies of Halo States
4 Nuclei at and Beyond the Driplines
4.1 The 5He Case
4.2 The 10Li Case
5 Beta-Decay of Exotic Nuclei
5.1 Beta-Decay Theory
5.2 Beta-Delayed Particles
5.3 Beta Decay of 11Li
6 Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 5
1 Introduction
2 The Proton Drip-Line
2.1 Experimental Observations
3 Proton Radioactivity from Spherical Nuclei
4 Proton Radioactivity from Deformed Nuclei
4.1 Nilsson Resonances
4.2 Adiabatic Approach: The Strong Coupling Limit
4.3 The Non-adiabatic Quasi-particle Approach: Contributions from Coriolis Mixing and Pairing Residual Interaction
5 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Chapter 6
1 Introduction
2 Heavy-Ion Reactions and Optical Potentials in Systems Far from the Stability Line. E.ects Associated with the Presence of Skins and Haloes
3 Consequences of a Neutron Skin on the Properties of the Nuclear Excitation States. Giant Resonances and Novel Collective Modes
4 Low-Lying Strength (Mainly Dipole) for Weakly Bound Systems at the Drip Lines. E.ect of Halo Distribution and Break-Up Processes
5 Sub-barrier Fusion Processes with Weakly-Bound Nuclei. E.ect of Coupling to the Continuum
Chapter 7
1 Introduction
2 The Nuclear Physics Input
2.1 Rate Equations and Reaction Rates
2.2 Neutron-Induced Reactions
2.3 Nonresonant Charged-Particle Reactions
2.4 Resonant Reactions of Charged Particles
2.5 The General Case
2.6 Plasma Screening
2.7 Electron Screening in Laboratory Nuclear Reactions
3 Hydrostatic Burning Stages
3.1 Hydrogen Burning
3.2 Helium Burning
3.3 Carbon, Neon, Oxygen Burning
3.4 Silicon Burning
4 Core Collapse Supernovae

4.2 Weak-Interaction Rates and Presupernova Evolution
4.3 The Role of Electron Capture During Collapse
4.4 Neutrino-Induced Processes During a Supernova Collapse
5 Nucleosynthesis Beyond Iron
5.1 The s-Process
5.2 R-Process – Model and Site
5.3 R-Process – Nuclear Input
Nuclear Masses
Halflives
Neutron Capture Cross Sections
Chapter 8
1 Introduction
2 The Baryon-Baryon Interaction and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem


3.2 Hyperonic Degrees of Freedom
4 Neutron Star Structure
5 Summary and Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Chapter 9
1 Introduction
2 Symmetries and Group Theory
2.1 Some De.nitions
2.2 Symmetry Transformations
2.3 Constants of the Motion and State Labeling
2.4 Eigenfunctions and Representations
2.5 The Algebraic Approach
2.6 Superalgebras
3 Nuclear Supersymmetry
3.1 Dynamical Symmetries in Even-Even Nuclei
3.2 Dynamical Symmetries in Odd-A Nuclei
3.3 Dynamical Supersymmetries
3.4 Dynamical Neutron-Proton Supersymmetries
3.5 One-Nucleon Transfer Reactions
3.6 New Experiments
3.7 SUSY Without Dynamical Symmetry
4 Summary and Conclusions
Acknowledgments
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