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About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notations and conventions
- 1. Elements of nuclear structure
- 2. The Bohr collective model
- 3. Symmetry, dynamical groups and spectrum generating algebras
- 4. The algebraic collective model
- 5. The shell model
- 6. Pair-coupling models
- 7. Mean-field approximations
- 8. Time-dependent mean-field theory; a classical approximation
- 9. Concluding remarks
- Appendix A Some basics of angular-momentum theory
- Appendix B Useful relationships for electromagnetic properties of nuclei
- Fundamental physical constants and conversion factors
- Bibliography
- Author index
- Subject index