The Nuclear Many-Body Problem 2001

by Witold Nazarewicz (Editor), Dario Vretenar (Editor)

Overview

An expert and illuminating review of the leading models of nuclear structure: effective field theories based on quantum chromodynamics; ab initio models based on Monte Carlo methods employing effective nucleon-nucleon interactions; diagonalization and the Monto Carlo shell model; non-relativistic and relativistic mean-field theory and its extensions; and symmetry-dictated approaches. Theoretical advances in major areas of nuclear structure are discussed: nuclei far from stability and radioactive ion beams; gamma ray spectroscopy; nuclear astrophysics and electroweak interactions in nuclei; electron scattering; nuclear superconductivity; superheavy elements. The interdisciplinary aspects of the many-body problem are also discussed. Recent experimental data are examined in light of state-of-the-art calculations.
Readership: Researchers and students familiar with basic theoretical concepts of low-energy nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics. Recent advances in several broad areas of theoretical structure are covered, making the book ideal as a supplementary textbook.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402004629
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	02/28/2002
Series:	NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Series , #53
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.54(w) x 9.46(h) x 1.05(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
I	Nuclear Many-Body Problem: Building Blocks
	Role of Chiral Symmetry in the Nuclear Many-Body Problem	3
	Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of p-shell Nuclei	11
	Electron Scattering and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem	19
	Relativistic Effects in Quasielastic Electron Scattering	27
II	Nuclear Shell Model
	Effective Interactions for Finite Nuclei	35
	Magic Numbers in Exotic Nuclei and Spin-Isospin Properties of NN Interaction	41
	Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for the Nuclear Many Body Problem at Finite Temperature	49
	Quadrupole Collective States in the Monte-Carlo Shell Model	57
	Variational Approach to Medium Mass N=Z Nuclei	63
	Description of Exotic Nuclei using Continuum Shell Model	69
III	Relativistic Models
	Relativistic Field Theories and the Microscopic Description of the Nuclear System	79
	Relativistic Mean Field Approach with Density and Momentum-Dependent Coupling Vertices	89
	Effects of New Couplings from Relativistic Effective Field Theory Models	97
	Rotating Nuclei in the Relativistic Mean Field Theory: Microscopic nature of nuclear magnetism	103
	Nuclear Fission Described in the Framework of the Relativistic Mean Field Theory: The Strutinsky type approach	111
	Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry in Nuclei	117
	Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry and the Structure of Nuclear States	125
	The Pseudospin Symmetry in Finite Nuclei: Dirac Phenomenology	131
IV	Symmetry Dictated Approaches
	Microscopic Description of Heavy Deformed Nuclei	139
	Electromagnetic Transition Strengths in [superscript 104]Cd and [superscript 101]Ag and their Interpretation within the Interacting Boson (Fermion) plus Broken Pair Model
	Investigation of Properties of Mixed Symmetry States in [superscript 94]Mo and [superscript 96]Ru	151
V	Pairing in Nuclei
	Sources of Pairing in Nuclei	161
	Relativistic Theory of Pairing in Finite Nuclei	169
	Pairing Properties in Relativistic Mean Field Models Based on Effective Field Theory	175
	Contact Pairing Interaction for the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Calculations	181
	Size Dependence of Pairing in Finite Fermi Systems	189
	Pairing Correlations along the Fission Path	195
VI	Nuclear Collective Motion
	Multi-Phonon States in Spherical Nuclei	203
	Collective Properties of the Low Energy Dipole Response in the Relativistic RPA	209
	Extensions of the Perturbed SPA: Decay Rates of Damped Systems and Improvement for Small Temperatures	215
	High-Spin Structure of Neutron-rich Dy Isotopes	223
VII	Nuclei Far from Stability
	The Challenges of Understanding Exotic Nuclei	231
	Quadrupole Collectivity in Theories Beyond Mean Field with Effective Forces	239
	Mean-field Treatment of Isobaric Excitations in N=Z Nuclei. Search for the Isoscalar Pairing Collectivity	247
	Particle-Unstable Nuclei: Mean-Field Description	253
	Proton Emission from Gamow Resonance	259
	Nucleon Distributions in Loosely Bound Nuclei	265
	Alpha Cluster Condensation in Threshold States of Self-conjugate 4n Nuclei	271
VIII	Superheavy Nuclei
	Superheavy Elements--Discoveries and Challenges	281
	Towards the Structure of the Heaviest Nuclei	289
	A Liquid Drop Model (LDM) for Nuclear Semi-Bubbles or, more generally Systems Consisting of Domains with Different Constant Density	297
	Synthesis of Superheavy Elements	305
	Recent Investigations of Superheavy Elements	311
IX	Weak Interactions and Astrophysics
	Weak-Interaction Processes in Nuclear Astrophysics	315
	Hartree-Fock-BCS Calculations of Beta-decay Half-lives	323
	Neutrino Propagation in Neutron Matter and the Nuclear Equation of State	329
	Properties of Nuclei in the Neutron Star Crust	337
X	Intersections
	Shell Model with Random Interactions	345
	Kohn-Sham Approximation with Finite Range Forces	353
	Thermal Phase Transitions in Finite Quantum Systems	359
	Fractality for the Nuclear Line of Stability, Atomic Weights and Molecular Weights	367
	Index	375