Elements of Nuclei : Many-Body Physics with the Strong Interaction

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Content: Cover Title Page Copyright page Editorâ#x80 #x99 s Foreword Preface Table of Contents Introduction 1: Origins of Nuclei 1.1 The First Nanosecond 1.2 The First Microsecond 1.3 The First Second 1.4 The First Quarter Hour 1.5 The First Million Years 1.6 The First Billion Years 1.7 Conservation Laws and Nuclear Forces Problems 2: Nuclear Forces 2.1 The Ground State of the Deuteron 2.2 Continuum States. Effective Range Theory 2.3 Spin and Isospin 2.4 Effective Interactions and the Matrix 2.5 Pion Exchange Force 2.6 Phenomenological Forces Between Nucleons. 2.7 Scattering of Pions by Nucleons2.8 Scattering of Electrons by Nucleons Problems 3: Scattering by Nuclei 3.1 The Black Sphere 3.2 Nuclear Sizes and the Saturation of Nuclear Forces 3.3 The Optical Model 3.4 Nuclear Matter 3.5 Electromagnetic Forces Scattering of Electrons and Protons by Nuclei 3.6 Scattering of Pions by Nuclei Problems 4: Bound Nucleons 4.1 Bound States in the Nuclear Potential 4.2 Mean Field Theory 4.3 The Liquid-Drop Model 4.4 The Optical Model Beyond the Mean Field 4.5 Translational Symmetry and the Limitations of the Mean Field Problems. 5: Static Deformations5.1 The Independent-Particle Model as an Approximation to the Mean Field 5.2 Self-Consistency in the Spherical Independent-Particle Model 5.3 The Deformed Independent-Particle Model 5.4 Deformation Energy in the Oscillator Model 5.5 Liquid-Drop Deformation Energy 5.6 Strutinsky Unification of the Liquid-Drop and Independent-Particle Models Problems 6: Pairing 6.1 Interactions Beyond the Mean Field 6.2 The Î ́Force 6.3 The Degenerate Pairing Model 6.4 General Pairing Theory 6.5 The Uniform Model 6.6 Relation to Experimental Information Problems. 7: The Ground State: Stability and Decay7.1 Angular Momentum and Parity 7.2 Magnetic Dipole Moments 7.3 Isospin of a Nucleus 7.4 Isospin Potential and Symmetry Energy 7.5 Beta Stability 7.6 Drip Lines 7.7 Fission Problems 8: Nuclear Collective Motion 8.1 Polarization and Response 8.2 Nuclear Response in the Independent-Particle Model 8.3 Vibrations of the Nuclear Shape in the Independent-Particle Model 8.4 Harmonic Vibrations in the Random Phase Approximation 8.5 Phenomenology of Nuclear Vibrations 8.6 Slow, Large-Amplitude Collective Motion Problems 9: Rotational Motion. 9.1 Classical Picture of Rotational Motion for Deformed Nuclei9.2 Cranking Picture of Rotational Motionfor Deformed Nuclei 9.3 Generator-Coordinate Picture of Spin-Zero Nuclei 9.4 Rotational Bands with Intrinsic Angular Momentum 9.5 Departures from the Ideal Rotor 9.6 Matrix Elements of Rotational Bands 9.7 High-Spin States and the Yrast Line 9.8 Transition from Spherical to Deformed Nuclei in the Interacting Boson Approximation Problems 10: Decay of Excited States 10.1 Compound Nucleus 10.2 Strong Interaction Decay Modes 10.3 Gamma Decay 10.4 Beta Decay Problems.