![]() FUNDAMENTALS OF NUCLEAR MODELS
Foundational Models
by David J Rowe (University of Toronto, Canada) & John
L Wood (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
676pp
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Table
of Contents (148k)
Preface
(100k)
Chapter
1: Elements of Nuclear Structure (606k)
This book reviews the basic models and theories of nuclear
structure and gives an in-depth analysis of their experimental and
mathematical foundations. It shows the relationships between the models
and exhibits the value of following the strategy of: looking for
patterns in all the data available, developing phenomenological models
to explain them, and finally giving the models a foundation in a
fundamental microscopic theory of interacting neutrons and protons.
This unique book takes a newcomer from an introduction to
nuclear structure physics to the frontiers of the subject along a
painless path. It provides both the experimental and mathematical
foundations of the essential models in a way that is accessible to a
broad range of experimental and theoretical physicists. Thus, the book
provides a unique resource and an exposition of the essential
principles, mathematical structures, assumptions, and observational
data on which the models and theories are based. It avoids discussion
of many non-essential variations and technical details of the models.
Contents:
- Elements of Nuclear Structure
- The Bohr Collective Model
- Symmetry, Dynamical Groups and Spectrum
Generating Algebras
- The Algebraic Collective Model
- The Shell Model
- Pair-Coupling Models
- Mean-Field Approximations
- Time-Dependent Mean-Field Theory; A Classical
Approximation
- Concluding Remarks
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