Overview

In many areas of physics, such as astrophysics, solid-state physics, nuclear physics and particle physics, a major outstanding problem is a better understanding of corre- lation phenomena. While in most cases the average properties of a system are rather well understood, the correlations and the resulting clustering are poorly understood. They are reflections of the force mediating the interaction among the constituents and play essential roles in determining the structure of a physical system. At the largest scales, in astrophysics, it has recently been realized that there are huge voids in space and almost all matter is concentrated on filaments, raising interesting questions concerning the origin of this clustering of matter. In nuclear physics corre- lation phenomena are important in all its subfields. It has been realized that so-called fluctuations in the one-particle density, which are a manifestation of nucleon-nucleon correlations, are crucial. These are important for an understanding of heavy-ion reac- tions. This is the subject of modern quantum transport theories. Correlations are also crucial in the description of the high momentum components as observed in quasi-elastic knock-out reactions.

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Author:   M.N. Harakeh ,  J.H. Koch ,  O. Scholten
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   359
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780306456121

ISBN 10:   0306456125
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   31 July 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Nuclear Ground States; V. Pandharipande. Clustering in Nuclear Structure and Collisions; H. Horiuchi. Nucleon-Nucleon Correlations in Photon-Induced Reactions; P. Grabmayr. Nucleon-Nucleon Correlations in the Pionic Double Charge Exchange; H. Clement. Elements of Quantum Transport Theory; R. Malfliet. Multifragmentation in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions; W. Trautmann. Hanbury-Brown/Twiss Interferometry for Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions: Theoretical Aspects; U. Heinz. Chiral Symmetry and its Restoration in Relativistic Heavy Collisions; V. Koch. Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Physics from AGS to LHC; J. Schukraft. Quark Wave Functions within Nucleons and Mesons, and Exclusive Processes in QCD; C. Carlson. Particles, Space and Time; V. Icke. Index.

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