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 followingthe 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 waythat 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. INDICE: 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.
- ISBN: 978-981-256-956-1
- Editorial: World Scientific
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 676
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés