Nuclear Structure from a Simple Perspective

2. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-850724-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 736 g

The present textbook on nuclear structure takes a unique and complementary approach compared to existing texts on the topic. Avoiding complicated calculations and complex mathematical formalism, it explains nuclear structure by building on a few elementary physical ideas. Even such apparently intricate topics as shell model residual interactions, the Nilsson model, and the RPA analysis of collective vibrations are explained in a simple, intuitive way so that
predictions can usually be made without calculations, essentially by inspection. Frequent comparison with data allows the relevance of theoretical approaches to be immediately evident. This edition includes new chapters on exotic nuclei and radioactive beams, and on correlations of collective observables.
Completely new discussions are given of isospin, the shell model, nature of collective vibrations, multi-phonon states, superdeformation, bandmixing, geometric collective model, fermi gas model, basic properties of simple nuclear potentials, the deuteron, etc. With the amount of new material this new edition is essentially a new book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casten, Richard F.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Kernphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Radioaktivität

Über Autor(innen)

Richard F. Casten, Professor of Physics, Yale University and Director, Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory