The Nuclear Many-Body Problem 2001

✍ Scribed by N. Kaiser, W. Weise (auth.), Witold Nazarewicz, Dario Vretenar (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 378
• Series: NATO Science Series 53
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An expert and illuminating review of the leading models of nuclear structure: effective field theories based on quantum chromodynamics; ab initio models based on Monte Carlo methods employing effective nucleon-nucleon interactions; diagonalization and the Monto Carlo shell model; non-relativistic and relativistic mean-field theory and its extensions; and symmetry-dictated approaches. Theoretical advances in major areas of nuclear structure are discussed: nuclei far from stability and radioactive ion beams; gamma ray spectroscopy; nuclear astrophysics and electroweak interactions in nuclei; electron scattering; nuclear superconductivity; superheavy elements. The interdisciplinary aspects of the many-body problem are also discussed. Recent experimental data are examined in light of state-of-the-art calculations.
Recent advances in several broad areas of theoretical structure are covered, making the book ideal as a supplementary textbook.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Role of Chiral Symmetry in the Nuclear Many-Body Problem....Pages 3-10
Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of P-Shell Nuclei....Pages 11-18
Electron Scattering and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem....Pages 19-26
Relativistic Effects in Quasielastic Electron Scattering....Pages 27-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Effective Interactions for Finite Nuclei....Pages 35-40
Magic Numbers in Exotic Nuclei and Spin-Isospin properties of NN Interaction....Pages 41-48
Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for the Nuclear Many Body Problem at Finite Temperature....Pages 49-56
Quadrupole Collective States in the Monte-Carlo Shell Model....Pages 57-62
Variational Approach to Medium Mass N=Z Nuclei....Pages 63-68
Description of Exotic Nuclei using Continuum Shell Model....Pages 69-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Relativistic Field Theories and the Microscopic Description of the Nuclear System....Pages 79-88
Relativistic Mean Field Approach with Density and Momentum-Dependent Coupling Vertices....Pages 89-96
Effects of New Couplings from Relativistic Effective Field Theory Models....Pages 97-102
Rotating Nuclei in the Relativistic Mean Field Theory....Pages 103-110
Nuclear Fission Described in the Framework of the Relativistic Mean Field Theory....Pages 111-116
Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry in Nuclei....Pages 117-124
Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry and the Structure of Nuclear States....Pages 125-130
The Pseudospin Symmetry in Finite Nuclei: Dirac Phenomenology....Pages 131-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Microscopic Description of Heavy Deformed Nuclei....Pages 139-144
Electromagnetic Transition Strengths in 104 CD and 101 AG and Their Interpretation within the Interacting Boson (Fermion) Plus Broken Pair Model....Pages 145-150
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Investigation of Properties of Mixed Symmetry States in 94 MO and 96 RU....Pages 151-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Sources of Pairing in Nuclei....Pages 161-168
Relativistic Theory of Pairing in Finite Nuclei....Pages 169-174
Pairing Properties in Relativistic Mean Field Models Based on Effective Field Theory....Pages 175-180
Contact Pairing Interaction for the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Calculations....Pages 181-188
Size Dependence of Pairing in Finite Fermi Systems....Pages 189-194
Pairing Correlations along the Fission Path....Pages 195-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Multi-Phonon States in Spherical Nuclei....Pages 203-208
Collective Properties of the Low Energy Dipole Response in the Relativistic RPA....Pages 209-214
Extensions of the Perturbed SPA....Pages 215-222
High-Spin Structure of Neutron-Rich Dy Isotopes....Pages 223-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
The Challenges of Understanding Exotic Nuclei....Pages 231-238
Quadrupole Collectivity in Theories Beyond Mean Field with Effective Forces....Pages 239-246
Mean-Field Treatment of Isobaric Excitations in N=Z Nuclei....Pages 247-252
Particle-Unstable Nuclei: Mean-Field Description....Pages 253-258
Proton Emission from Gamow Resonance....Pages 259-264
Nucleon Distributions in Loosely Bound Nuclei....Pages 265-270
Alpha Cluster Condensation in Threshold States of Self-Conjugate 4 n Nuclei....Pages 271-278
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
Superheavy Elements — Discoveries and Challenges....Pages 281-288
Towards the Structure of the Heaviest Nuclei....Pages 289-296
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
A Liquid Drop Model (LDM) for Nuclear Semi-Bubbles or, more Generally, Systems Consisting of Domains with Different Constant Density....Pages 297-304
Synthesis of Superheavy Elements....Pages 305-310
Recent Investigations of Superheavy Elements....Pages 311-312
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Weak-Interaction Processes in Nuclear Astrophysics....Pages 315-322
Hartree-Fock-BCS Calculations of Beta-Decay Half-Lives....Pages 323-328
Neutrino Propagation in Neutron Matter and the Nuclear Equation of State....Pages 329-336
Properties of Nuclei in the Neutron Star Crust....Pages 337-342
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Shell Model with Random Interactions....Pages 345-352
Kohn-Sham Approximation with Finite Range Forces....Pages 353-358
Thermal Phase Transitions in Finite Quantum Systems....Pages 359-366
Fractality for the Nuclear Line of Stability, Atomic Weights and Molecular Weights....Pages 367-374
Back Matter....Pages 375-377

✦ Subjects

Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons;Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics;Astronomy, Observations and Techniques