Books in the Oxford Studies in Nuclear Physics series

This textbook aims at a simple, intuitive approach to the resurgent field of nuclear structure physics. The approach is based on physics ideas and themes that allow a systematic development of the subject with a minimum of formulas and with the idea that most results of nuclear models can be obtained or motivated without detailed calculations.

Resonances are a common feature of many systems in nature. This book provides a comprehensive account of a similar phenomenon in atomic nuclei, the giant resonances. It describes experimental facts, how these are obtained, and how they fit into theoretical models. It also includes a short history and an overview of the main achievements.

The purpose of the handbook is to provide a reference for a large readership (researchers, practitioners, and students) interested in the modern theoretical and experimental aspects of the most important nuclear properties such as masses, deformations, spins and parities, half-lives, nuclear and particle decay modes, as well as fundamental constants, and energy conversion factors.

This text on the theory of non-relativistic nuclear reactions emphasizes basic notions and their expression in mathematical language. Topics treated include potential scattering, formal reaction theory, the theory of the optical model, direct and compound reactions, fusion, deep-inelastic collisions, and induced fission. The examples give some emphasis to current interest in heavy-ion physics.

A summary of the material accumulated in the field of nuclear density functional theory over the last few decades. The authors develop the mathematical framework on which the theory is based and consider the associated approaches used to analyse experimental data in a variety of nuclei and nuclear processes with widely differing properties.

One of the major topics of nuclear reaction studies concerns the pre-equilibrium nuclear reactions that take place after the initial impact but before the attainment of statistical equilibrium. In this book the theories are described and compared with experimental results.

The study of the low energy collective and single particle excitations of medium and heavy nuclei has undergone a rapid development. This book aims to survey and assess this development, from both the experimental and theoretical perspectives. It is intended for graduate students in this area.

This text presents the understanding of the structure and dynamics of atomic nuclei in terms of nucleons, pions, and quarks within a unified treatment of the nuclear response to an electromagnetic probe. With reference to a wide bibliography, the most relevant data and models are reviewed.

An introduction to the algebraic description of nuclear collective motion in terms of the Interacting Boson Model (IBM) and its various extensions. This model allows for detailed calculations of the properties of even, medium and heavy nuclei which cannot be reached by the shell model yet.

The book, which has grown out of a course given over the past ten years, provides an introduction to group theory and its application in subnuclear physics, particularly in multi-quark systems and hadron spectroscopy. A number of exercises, with solutions, are included.

All elementary particles are made up of even more elementary constituents called quarks. Even the physical vacuum has a quark structure. This book is an introduction to the models used to describe the observed particles and the restoration of chiral symmetry at high temperatures and densities, and provides a useful overview of the modern techniques used in this area of particle physics.

The book describes in detail modern developments in theories of small many body systems like nuclear complexes in accelerator experiments or metal clusters. To make the book self-contained, topics of general nature are included such as Equilibrium- and non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Linear Response Theory, and Functional Integrals.

The study of nuclear moments parallels the development of nuclear physics as a whole. This book is designed to show to what extent nuclear moments can be used as a stringent test of current nuclear models and of their predictive power.

The aim of this book is to provide a broad overview of nuclear physics in terms of both hadron-meson dynamics and quark-lepton dynamics. All subjects are presented from the experimental point of view and the reader is led through discussions of the important questions of research.