Description
Book SynopsisThis textbook is a unique and ambitious primer of nuclear physics, which introduces recent theoretical and experimental progresses starting from basics in fundamental quantum mechanics. The highlight is to offer an overview of nuclear structure phenomena relevant to recent key findings such as unstable halo nuclei, superheavy elements, neutron stars, nucleosynthesis, the standard model, lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD), and chiral effective theory. An additional attraction is that general properties of nuclei are comprehensively explained from both the theoretical and experimental viewpoints. The book begins with the conceptual and mathematical basics of quantum mechanics, and goes into the main point of nuclear physics – nuclear structure, radioactive ion beam physics, and nuclear reactions. The last chapters devote interdisciplinary topics in association with astrophysics and particle physics. A number of illustrations and exercises with complete solutions are given. Each chapter is comprehensively written starting from fundamentals to gradually reach modern aspects of nuclear physics with the objective to provide an effective description of the cutting edge in the field.
Table of ContentsTentative Table of Contents [ asterisk (*) for graduate level]
1. Concepts of quantum mechanics from the nuclear viewpoint
1.1 Genesis of quantum physics
1.2 Spin and Isospin
1.3 Quantum entanglement
1.4 Schrödinger equation
1.5 Quantum Tunneling in one dimension
1.6 Uncertainty relation
1.7 Symmetries and symmetry breaking
1.8 Dirac equation *)
1.9 Lagrangian and Path integral *)
1.10 Second quantization *)
2. Nuclear forces
2.1 Fundamental interactions
2.2 Nuclear force and symmetry constraints
2.3 Meson theory of nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction
2.4 Phase shifts and nuclear potentials
2.5 Three-body forces
2.6 Chiral Effective Field Theory (ChEFT)*)
3. Nuclear Structure theory
3.0 Bird’s eye view of nuclear models
3.1 Nuclear mean field
3.2 Random phase approximation
3.2 Energy density f
unctionals
3.2.1 Pairing interactions and BCS/Bogolyubov approximation
3.3 Beyond the mean field approaches*)
3.3.1 Generator coordinate method (GCM)
3.3.2 Anti-symmetrized molecular dynamics (AMD)
3.4 The Monte Carlo shell models*)
3.5 Ab-initio approaches*)
3.5.1 No core shell model (NCSM)
3.5.2 Variational (VMC) and Green’s function Monte Carlo (GFMC) approaches
3.5.3 Fermionic molecular dynamics (FMD)
4. Nuclear Structure phenomena and observables
4.1 Spectroscopic observables for shell structure
4.2 Collective oscillations
4.3 Short-range correlations
4.4 Superheavy elements
4.5 Hypernuclei
5. Radioactive ion beam physics
5.1 Radioactive ion beam accelerators
5.2 In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy and inverse kinematics
5.3 Neutron-rich nuclei –halo and skin
5.4 Evolutio
n of nuclear shells with Isospin – island of inversion-
5.5 Di-neutron correlations and nuclear superfluidity *)
5.6 Clusters in nuclei *)
6. Deformation and Rotation
6.1 Deformation of Molecules and Nuclei
6.2 Nuclear deformation and observables
6.3 Microscopic origin for nuclear deformations and prolate dominance
6.4 Measuring shapes
6.4.1 Hyperfine atomic structure from laser spectroscopy
6.4.2 Magnetic and Quadrupole Nuclear Resonance
6.4.3 Coulomb excitation
6.5 Shape and shape coexistence*)
6.6 Superdeformation and Hyperdeformation*)
6.7 Advances in gamma spectroscopy*)
7. Nuclear reactions
7.1 Overview of reaction mechanics
7.2 Elastic scattering
7.3 Direct reactions
7.1.1 Spectroscopic factors
7.1.2 Transfer rections
7.1.3 Quasifree scatterin
g
7.1.4 Heavy-ion induced nucleon removal
7.4 Nuclear fusion
7.4.1 Solar energies , and p-p chain reaction and CNO cycle
7.4.2 Magnetic confinement and the ITER project *)
7.4.3 Inertial confinement *)
7.5 Nuclear fission
7.5.1 Macroscopic models
7.5.2 Microscopic models *)
7.5.3 Principle of a nuclear power plant *)
8. Celestial observables and terrestrial experiments
8.1 Nuclear Equation-of-States constrained by terrestrial observables
8.2 Neutron stars
8.3 Nucleosynthesis
8.4 Supernovae explosion *)
9. Nuclear physics and the standard model of elementary particle
9.1 Standard model
9.2 Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics for Nuclei *)
9.3 CKM matrix and superallowe
d b decay*)
9.4 Neutrino oscillations and search for a 4 th neutrino*)
9.5 Double beta decay and neutrino mass*)
9.6 Appendix for LQCD*)
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