
Nuclear Structure from a Simple Perspective
Richard F. Casten(Author)
Oxford University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 15. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
478 pages
978-0-19-850724-6 (ISBN)
Description
The present textbook on nuclear structure takes a unique and complementary approach compared to existing texts on the topic. Avoiding complicated calculations and complex mathematical formalism, it explains nuclear structure by building on a few elementary physical ideas. Even such apparently intricate topics as shell model residual interactions, the Nilsson model, and the RPA analysis of collective vibrations are explained in a simple, intuitive way so that predictions can usually be made without calculations, essentially by inspection. Frequent comparison with data allows the relevance of theoretical approaches to be immediately evident. This edition includes new chapters on exotic nuclei and radioactive beams, and on correlations of collective observables. Completely new discussions are given of isospin, the shell model, nature of collective vibrations, multi-phonon states, superdeformation, bandmixing, geometric collective model, fermi gas model, basic properties of simple nuclear potentials, the deuteron, etc. With the amount of new material this new edition is essentially a new book.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
numerous line figures
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
736 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-850724-6 (9780198507246)
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R. F. Casten
Nuclear Structure from a Simple Perspective
Book
07/1990
Oxford University Press Inc
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Person
Richard F. Casten, Professor of Physics, Yale University and Director, Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory
Author
Professor of Physics, and Director, A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure LaboratoryProfessor of Physics, and Director, A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, USA
Content
PART I: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The Nuclear Landscape ; PART II: SHELL MODEL AND RESIDUAL INTERACTIONS ; 3. The Independent Particle Model ; 4. The Shell Model: Two-Particle Configurations ; 5. Multiparticle Configurations ; PART III: COLLECTIVITY, PHASE TRANSITIONS, DEFORMATION ; 6. Collective Excitations in even-even Nuclei: Vibrational and Rotational Motion ; 7. Evolution of Collectivity ; 8. The deformed Shell Model or Nilsson Model ; 9. Nilsson Model: Applications and Refinements ; 10. Microscopic Treatment of Collective Vibrations ; PART IV: EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES ; 11. Exotic Nuclei and Radioactive Beams ; References ; Index