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Nuclear Models / by Walter Greiner, Joachim A. Maruhn.

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Theoretical physics has become a many-faceted science. For the young student it is difficult enough to cope with the overwhelming amount of new scientific material that has to be learned, let alone to obtain an overview of the entire field, which ranges from mechanics through electrodynamics, quantu...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Greiner, Walter, 1935-2016
Other Authors: Maruhn, Joachim A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1996.
Subjects:
Physics.
Nuclear physics.
Nuclear fusion.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Nuclear Structure Physics
  • 1.2 The Basic Equation
  • 1.3 Microscopic versus Collective Models
  • 1.4 The Role of Symmetries
  • 2. Symmetries
  • 2.1 General Remarks
  • 2.2 Translation
  • 2.3 Rotation
  • 2.4 Isospin
  • 2.5 Parity
  • 2.6 Time Reversal
  • 3. Second Quantization
  • 3.1 General Formalism
  • 3.2 Representation of Operators
  • 3.3 Evaluation of Matrix Element for Fermions
  • 3.4 The Particle-Hole Picture
  • 4. Group Theory in Nuclear Physics
  • 4.1 Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
  • 4.2 Group Chains
  • 4.3 Lie Algebras in Second Quantization
  • 5. Electromagnetic Moments and Transitions
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 The Quantized Electromagnetic Field
  • 5.3 Radiation Fields of Good Angular Momentum
  • 5.4 Coupling of Radiation and Matter
  • 6. Collective Models
  • 6.1 Nuclear Matter
  • 6.2 Nuclear Surface Deformations
  • 6.3 Surface Vibrations
  • 6.4 Rotating Nuclei
  • 6.5 The Rotation-Vibration Model
  • 6.6?-Unstable Nuclei
  • 6.7 More General Collective Models for Surface Vibrations
  • 6.8 The Interacting Boson Model
  • 6.9 Giant Resonances
  • 7. Microscopic Models
  • 7.1 The Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction
  • 7.2 The Hartree
  • Fock Approximation
  • 7.3 Phenomenological Single-Particle Models
  • 7.4 The Relativistic Mean-Field Model
  • 7.5 Pairing
  • 8. Interplay of Collective and Single-Particle Motion
  • 8.1 The Core-plus-Particle Models
  • 8.2 Collective Vibrations in Microscopic Models
  • 9. Large-Amplitude Collective Motion
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 The Macroscopic-Microscopic Method
  • 9.3 Mass Parameters and the Cranking Model
  • 9.4 Time-Dependent Hartree
  • Fock
  • 9.5 The Generator-Coordinate Method
  • 9.6 High-Spin States
  • Appendix: Some Formulas from Angular-Momentum Theory
  • References.

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