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THE NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTION AND THE
NUCLEAR MANY-BODY PROBLEM
Selected Papers of Gerald E Brown and T T S Kuo
edited by Gerald E Brown (Stony Brook University NY, USA)Thomas
T S Kuo (Stony Brook University NY, USA), Jeremy
William Holt (Technische Universität Munchen, Germany)
& Sabine Lee (University of Birmingham, UK)
608pp
978-981-4289-28-3: US$140 / £87 US$105
/ £65.25
This book provides a comprehensive overview of some key
developments in the understanding of the nucleon-nucleon interaction
and nuclear many-body theory. The main problems at the level of meson
exchange physics have been solved, and we have an effective field
theory using a phenomenological interaction pioneered by Achim Schwenk
and Scott Bogner, which is nearly universally accepted as a unique
low-momentum interaction that includes all experimental data to date.
This understanding is based on a multi-step development in
which different scientific insights and a wide range of physical and
mathematical methodologies fed into each other. It is best appreciated
by looking at the different 'steps along the way', starting with the
pioneering work of Brueckner and his collaborators that was just as
necessary and important as the insightful masterly improvements to
Brueckner's theory by Hans Bethe and his students. Moving on from
there, the off-shell effects that bedeviled Bethe's work — which had
resulted in the 1963 Reference Spectrum Method — were treated
relatively accurately by introducing an energy gap between initial
bound states and an intermediate state. With their influential 1967
paper, Brown and Kuo prepared the effective field theory. Later, the
introduction of 'Brown-Rho scaling' deepened understanding of
saturation in the many-body system and fed directly into recent work on
carbon-14 dating.
Contents:
- Nuclear Matter: A Brief Overview
- Development of the Kuo-Brown Interaction
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