Overview

This volume contains two articles, one providing a historical retrospective of one of the great triumphs of nuclear physics in the 20th century and the other providing a didactic introduction to one of the quantitative tools for understanding strong interactions in the 21st. It is suitable only for advanced graduate courses in nuclear physics.

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Author:   J.W. Negele ,  Erich W. Vogt
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   2003 ed.
Volume:   27
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   2.140kg
ISBN:  

9780306477089

ISBN 10:   0306477084
Pages:   546
Publication Date:   31 January 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Fifty Years of the Shell Model - The Quest for the Effective Interaction. 1. Introduction. 2. The (Re)Emergence of the Shell Model. 3. Early Calculations. 4. Effective Interactions from Experimental Nuclear Energies. 5. Some Schematic Interactions and Applications. 6. Seniority and Generalized Seniority in Semi-Magic Nuclei. 7. Large-Scale Shell Model Calculations. 8. What Have We Learned? Where Do We Stand? References.- 2: Introduction to Chiral Perturbation Theory.- 1. Introduction. 2. QCD and Chiral Symmetry. 3. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Goldstone Theorem. 4. Chiral Perturbation Theory for Mesons. 5. Chiral Perturbation Theory for Baryons. 6. Summary and Concluding Remarks.- Appendix: A.1. Green Functions and Ward Identities. A.2. Dimensional Regularization: Basics. A.3. Loop Integrals. A.4. Different Forms of L4 in SU(2) x SU(2). References.- Index.

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