Interacting Boson Models of Nuclear Structure

by D. Bonatsos

Overview

This text is designed to provide physicists with an accessible introduction to the interacting boson model, an approach to nuclear structure that was first proposed in 1974, with several important extensions and generalizations appearing over the last decade. The value of this model lies in the fact that the traditional shell model of nuclear structure is limited in its application to light nuclei or heavier nuclei with only a few valence nucleons outside closed shells. Beyond these limits, the model requires prohibitively large-scale calculations. For this reason, the introduction of collective models has been necessary, including the approach described here. Algebraic descriptions for the effects of clustering, permanent octupole deformation, and giant resonances are included. And, for the description of odd nuclei, the interacting boson-fermion model has been introduced, and nuclear supersymmetries associated with it have been analyzed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198517276
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/22/1988
Series:	Oxford Studies in Nuclear Physics , #10
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

University of Tubingen

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. The Interacting Boson Model-13. The s-d-g Interacting Boson Model4. The Interacting Boson Model-25. The Interacting Boson Models 3 and 46. The Nuclear Vibron Model7. Algebraic Description of Asymmetric Shapes in Nuclei8. Algebraic Description of Giant Dipole Resonances9. The Interacting Boson-Fermion Model10. Nuclear Supersymmetries