From Nucleons to Nucleus

Concepts of Microscopic Nuclear Theory
2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-48859-0
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, 648 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1162 g

Reihe: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

From Nucleons to Nucleus deals with single-particle and collective features of spherical nuclei. Each nuclear model is introduced and derived in detail. The formalism is then applied to light and medium-heavy nuclei in worked-out examples, and finally the acquired skills are strengthened by a wide selection of exercises, many relating the models to experimental data. For consistency, the surface delta interaction is used in all applications requiring configuration mixing. Nuclear properties are discussed using particles, holes and quasiparticles. A large number of matrix elements of standard operators have been tabulated for reference. From Nucleons to Nucleus is based on lectures on nuclear physics given by the author. It's main scope is thus to serve as a textbook for advanced students. But also researchers will appreciate it as well-balanced reference to theoretical nuclear physics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suhonen, Jouni

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Kernphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Teilchenphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Particles and Holes.- Angular Momentum Coupling.- Tensor Operators and the Wigner-Eckart Theorem.- The Nuclear Mean Field and Many-Nucleon Configurations.- Occupation Number Representation.- The Mean-Field Shell Model.- Electromagnetic Multipole Moments and Transitions.- Beta Decay.- Nuclear Two-Body Interaction and Configuration Mixing.- Particle-Hole Excitations and the Tamm-Dancoff Approximation.- Charge-Changing Particle-Hole Excitations and the pnTDA.- The Random-Phase Approximation.- Quasiparticles.- Nucleon Pairing and Seniority.- BCS Theory.- Quasiparticle Mean Field: BCS and Beyond.- Transitions in the Quasiparticle Picture.- Mixing of Two-Quasiparticle Configurations.- Two-Quasiparticle Mixing in Odd-Odd Nuclei.- Two-Quasiparticle Mixing by the QRPA.- Proton-Neutron QRPA.