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Springer Modern Nuclear Physics From Fundamentals To Frontiers by Alexandre Obertelli, Hiroyuki Sagawa
This 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. Tentative Table of Contents [ asterisk (*) for graduate level] 1. Concepts of quantum mechanics from the nuclear viewpoint1.1 Genesis of quantum physics1.2 Spin and Isospin1.3 Quantum entanglement1.4 Schroedinger equation 1.5 Quantum Tunneling in one dimension1.6 Uncertainty relation1.7 Symmetries and symmetry breaking1.8 Dirac equation *)1.9 Lagrangian and Path integral *)1.10 Second quantization *)2. Nuclear forces2.1 Fundamental interactions2.2 Nuclear force and symmetry constraints2.3 Meson theory of nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction2.4 Phase shifts and nuclear potentials2.5 Three-body forces2.6 Chiral Effective Field Theory (ChEFT)*)3. Nuclear Structure theory3.0 Bird's eye view of nuclear models3.1 Nuclear mean field3.2 Random phase approximation3.2 Energy density functionals3.2.1 Pairing interactions and BCS/Bogolyubov approximation3.3 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) approaches3.5.3 Fermionic molecular dynamics (FMD)4. Nuclear Structure phenomena and observables4.1 Spectroscopic observables for shell structure4.2 Collective oscillations4.3 Short-range correlations4.4 Superheavy elements4.5 Hypernuclei5. Radioactive ion beam physics5.1 Radioactive ion beam accelerators5.2 In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy and inverse kinematics5.3 Neutron-rich nuclei -halo and skin5.4 Evolution of nuclear shells with Isospin - island of inversion-5.5 Di-neutron correlations and nuclear superfluidity *)5.6 Clusters in nuclei *)6. Deformation and Rotation6.1 Deformation of Molecules and Nuclei6.2 Nuclear deformation and observables6.3 Microscopic origin for nuclear deformations and prolate dominance6.4 Measuring shapes6.4.1 Hyperfine atomic structure from laser spectroscopy6.4.2 Magnetic and Quadrupole Nuclear Resonance6.4.3 Coulomb excitation6.5 Shape and shape coexistence*)6.6 Superdeformation and Hyperdeformation*)6.7 Advances in gamma spectroscopy*)7. Nuclear reactions7.1 Overview of reaction mechanics7.2 Elastic scattering7.3 Direct reactions7.1.1 Spectroscopic factors7.1.2 Transfer rections7.1.3 Quasifree scattering7.1.4 Heavy-ion induced nucleon removal7.4 Nuclear fusion7.4.1 Solar energies , and p-p chain reaction and CNO cycle7.4.2 Magnetic confinement and the ITER project *)7.4.3 Inertial confinement *)7.5 Nuclear fission7.5.1 Macroscopic models7.5.2 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 observables8.2 Neutron stars8.3 Nucleosynthesis8.4 Supernovae explosion *)9. Nuclear physics and the standard model of elementary particle9.1 Standard model9.2 Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics for Nuclei *)9.3 CKM matrix and superallowed 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*)References Solutions of problems