Fundamentals of Nuclear Models

Foundational Models

David J Rowe, John L Wood;;;

• Publisher: WSPC
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9789813101722
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Nuclear Physics

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.

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