Theoretical Nuclear And Subnuclear Physics (Second Edition)

by John Dirk Walecka

Overview

This book is a revised and updated version of the most comprehensive text on nuclear and subnuclear physics, first published in 1995. It maintains the original goal of providing a clear, logical, in-depth, and unifying treatment of modern nuclear theory, ranging from the nonrelativistic many-body problem to the standard model of the strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions. In addition, new chapters on the theoretical and experimental advances made in nuclear and subnuclear physics in the past decade have been incorporated.Four key topics are emphasized: basic nuclear structure, the relativistic nuclear many-body problem, strong-coupling QCD, and electroweak interactions with nuclei. New chapters have been added on the many-particle shell model, effective field theory, density functional theory, heavy-ion reactions and quark-gluon plasma, neutrinos, and electron scattering.This book is designed to provide graduate students with a basic understanding of modern nuclear and hadronic physics needed to explore the frontiers of the field. Researchers will benefit from the updates on developments and the bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789812388988
Publisher:	World Scientific / Imperial College Press
Publication date:	09/30/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	628
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

College of William and Mary

Table of Contents

PART I: Basic Nuclear Structure
1. Nuclear Forces: A Review
2. Nuclear Matter
3. The Independent-Particle Fermi Gas Model
4. The Independent-Pair Approximation
5. Nuclear Matter with a "Realistic Interaction"
6. The Shell Model
7. Electromagnetic Interactions
8. Electromagnetism and the Shell Game
9. Excited States-Equations of Motion
10. Collected Modes—A Simple Model with -gb(3)(r)
11. Applications to a Real Nucleus—16O
12. CEBAF's Role
PART II: The Relativistic Nuclear Many Body Problem
13. Introduction
14. A Simple Model with (o,w) and Mean Field Theory
15. Extensions of Mean Field Theory
16. Quantum Hadrodynamics (QHD-I)
17. Applications
18. Some Thermodynamics
19. QCD and a Phase Transition
20. Pions
21. Chiral Invariance
22. The o-Model
23. The Chiral Transformation
24. Dynamical Resonances
25. A Model with (o, w, n, p)-QHD-II
26. CEBAF's Role
PART III: Strong Coupling QCD
27. QCD—A Review
28. Path Integrals
29. Lattice Gauge Theory
30. Mean Field Theory
31. Non-Abelian Theory—SU(2)
32. Mean Field Theory—SU(n)
33. Observables in LGT
34. Strong Coupling Limit
35. Monte Carlo Calculations
36. Include Fermions
37. QCD Inspired Models
38. More Models
39. Deep-Inelastic Scattering
40. Evolution Equations
41. CEBAF's Role
PART IV: Electroweak Interactions with Nuclei
42. Weak Interaction Phenomenology
43. Introduction to the Standard Model
44. Quarks in the Standard Model
45. Weak Interactions with Nuclei
46. Semi-Leptonic Weak Processes
47. Some Applications
48. Electroweak Radiative Corrections
49. Full Quark Sector of the Standard Model
50. Parity Violation