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Advances in Nuclear Physics

By Dan Olof Riska (auth.) , J. W. Negele , Erich Vogt (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer US
Year
2002
ISBN
978-0-306-45157-7, 978-0-306-47065-3
DOI
10.1007/b115016
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2032272 bytes)
Series
Advances in Nuclear Physics 22
Edition
1
Pages
271\285
Topic
Physics
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Hadrons;AtomicHeavy IonsMathematical and Computational PhysicsMolecularNuclear PhysicsOptical and Plasma Physics;Theoretical

Description

This volume presents five pedagogical articles spanning frontier developments in contemporary nuclear physics ranging from the physics of a single nucleon to nucleosynthesis in the Big Bang. Although the objectives of Advances in Nuclear Physics have been and will continue to be quite distinct from those of conventional conference proceedings, the articles in this volume are carefully edited and expanded manuscripts based on an outstanding series of lectures delivered at the VI J. A. Swieca Summer School in Brazil. Starting at the smallest scale, the first article by Dan Olof Riska addresses realistic chiral symmetric models of the nucleon. Since the analytic tools are not yet developed to solve nonperturbative QCD directly, significant effort has been devoted in recent years to the development of models which incorporate and are constrained by the approximate chiral symmetry manifested in QCD. This article provides a clear introduction to chiral symmetry and the Skyrme model, and discusses the Skyrme model’s relation to the chiral bag model, its extensions, and its application to nucleons and hyperons.

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