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Title

Theoretical nuclear and subnuclear physics / John Dirk Walecka.

Author

Walecka, John Dirk, 1932-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

xx, 610 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

• This much-needed book - the most comprehensive, up-to-date text available on nuclear physics - expertly details the numerous theoretical techniques central to the discipline. It is based on lecture notes from a three-lecture series given at CEBAF (the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility), where John Dirk Walecka at the time was Scientific Director: Graduate Quantum Mechanics, Advanced Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory, and Special Topics in Nuclear Physics. The primary goal of this text is pedagogical; providing a clear, logical, in-depth, and unifying treatment of many diverse aspects of modern nuclear theory ranging from the non-relativistic many-body problem to the standard model of the strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions. Four key topics are emphasized in this text: basic nuclear structure, the relativistic nuclear many-body problem, strong-coupling QCD, and electroweak interactions with nuclei.
• The text is designed to provide graduate students with a basic level of understanding of modern nuclear physics so that they in turn can explore the scientific frontiers. Written by an eminent authority in the field, Theoretical Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers alike.

Series Statement

Oxford studies in nuclear physics ; 16

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in nuclear physics ; 16.

Subject

• Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
• Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
• Nuclear structure
• Nuclear reactions
• Electroweak interactions
• nuclear reaction
• Electroweak interactions
• Nuclear reactions
• Nuclear structure
• Kernphysik
• Quantum chromodynamics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. I. Basic Nuclear Structure. Ch. 1. Nuclear Forces: A Review. Ch. 2. Nuclear Matter. Ch. 3. The Independent-Particle Fermi-Gas Model. Ch. 4. The Independent-Pair Approximation. Ch. 5. Nuclear Matter with a "Realistic" Interaction. Ch. 6. The Shell Model. Ch. 7. Electromagnetic Interactions. Ch. 8. Electromagnetism and the Shell Model. Ch. 9. Excited States -- Equations of Motion. Ch. 10. Collective Modes -- A Simple Model with [actual symbol not reproducible]. Ch. 11. Application to a Real Nucleus -- [superscript 16]O. Ch. 12. CEBAF's Role -- pt. II. The Relativistic Nuclear Many-Body Problem. Ch. 14. A Simple Model with ([sigma], [omega]) and Mean Field Theory. Ch. 15. Extensions of Mean Field Theory. Ch. 16. Quantum Hadrodynamics (QHD-I). Ch. 17. Applications. Ch. 18. Some Thermodynamics. Ch. 19. QCD and a Phase Transition. Ch. 20. Pions. Ch. 21. Chiral Invariance. Ch. 22. The [sigma]-Model. Ch. 23. The Chiral Transformation. Ch. 24. Dynamic Resonances.

ISBN

• 0195072146
• 9780195072143

LCCN

94013930

OCLC

• ocm30399838
• 30399838
• SCSB-2048084

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library