Nuclear physics

The book contains the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics held at the University of Guelph from August 28 through September 2, 2011.

This book gives a comprehensive review of the current status of the theory of the pion-two-nucleon systems at intermediate energies.

This volume consists of contributions from some of Japan's most eminent nuclear theorists.

The production and the properties of nuclei in extreme conditions, such as high isospin, temperature, angular momenta, large deformations etc.

Detailed discussions on many of the recent advances in the many-body theory of atomic structure are presented by the leading experts around the world on their respective specialized approaches.

The physics of strongly interacting many-body systems known as nuclear physics is a mature discipline which has achieved a remarkably quantitative success.

This book is devoted to the modern problems of quantum optics.

Successful modeling of quantum chromodynamics with a relativistic quark-soliton field theory has been developed over the past decade.

This book summarizes the considerable progress recently achieved in the understanding of nucleon and nuclear structure by using high energy electrons as a probe.

Professor D Ivanenko is well known for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of the proton-neutron model of nuclei, elaborating the first non-phenomenological theory of nuclear forces.

Written primarily for researchers and graduate students who are new in this emerging field, this book develops the necessary tools so that readers can follow the latest advances in this subject.

This book is an introduction to the role of topology in the quantization of classical systems.

Experimental Techniques in High-Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics is a compilation of outstanding technical papers and reviews of the ingenious methods developed for experimentation in modern nuclear and particle physics.

The contributions in this conference proceeding present an alternative approach to solving the Quantum Field Theory problem using the variational approach.

This review volume on topological and nontopological chiral solitons presents a global view on the current developments of this field in particle and nuclear physics.

The theoretical study of the nuclear equation of state (EOS) is a field of research which deals with most of the fundamental problems of nuclear physics.

This is a sequel to the review volume Quark-Gluon Plasma.

This book covers a new niche in circular accelerator design, motivated by the promising industrial prospects of recent micromanufacturing methods - X-ray lithography, synchrotron radiation-based micromachining and microanalysis techniques.

The most important papers of Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme are collected in this volume which also includes commentaries by G Brown and other articles relating to the life and work of Tony Skryme, R Dalitz, E Witten and others.

This book consists of a collection of carefully selected review papers and lecture notes written by the author on Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (PQCD) and its experimental tests.

The nucleon optical model is widely used to calculate the elastic scattering cross-sections and polarisations for the interaction of neutrons and protons with atomic nuclei.

Nuclear molecules are analogous to ordinary electronic molecules.

Much instrumentation has been developed for imaging the trajectories of elementary particles produced in high energy collisions.

This book shows the usefulness of the nucleus as a laboratory for learning about basic symmetries and fundamental interactions.

One essential characteristic of life is the exchange of matter and energy between organisms and their environment.

Exposure to radon gas, which is present in the environment naturally, constitutes over half the radiation dose received by the general public annually.

This book is a collection of the major scientific papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907-95), including the Peierls-Frisch Memoranda of 1940 on the feasibility, and the predicted human effects, of an atomic bomb made of uranium-235.

This book presents some recent mathematical developments about neutron transport equations.

This book presents and describes a series of unusual and striking strong-field phenomena concerning atoms and free electrons.

The purpose of this book is to give a description of the state of the art in theoretical and experimental work achieved in radiation source development.

The atomic nucleus, despite of being one of the smallest objects found in nature, appears to be large enough to experience phase transitions.

The phase structure of particle physics shows up in matter at extremely high densities and/or temperatures as they were reached in the early universe, shortly after the big bang, or in heavy-ion collisions, as they are performed nowadays in laboratory experiments.

Our journey in search of the origin of matter - and, by extension, the origin of the Universe itself - has taken us deeper and deeper inside atoms.

Recently, accurate ab initio quantum computational chemistry has evolved dramatically.

Nuclear double beta decay is one of the most promising tools for probing beyond-the-standard-model physics on beyond-accelerator energy scales.

This book describes the basic properties of charged beam transport and the theory of accelerators with radiative damping.

UNDER THE SPELL OF THE GAUGE PRINCIPLE - by G 't HooftThe University of Bologna and its Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Italian Physical Society, celebrated in 1998 the bicentenary of a great pioneer in the field of electric phenomena - Luigi Galvani, the father of macroelectricity.

The confinement mechanism of the quarks in QCD is one of the most challenging and open problems in physics.

Quantum many-body theory as a discipline in its own right dates largely from the 1950's.

This book provides an authoritative, up to date, overview of the field of chiral dynamics, and also provides an excellent introduction to the field.

This volume deals mainly with physics related to the RHIC.

This volume is devoted to recent achievements and new challenges in the field of nuclear structure.

The Conference "e;Bologna 2000: Structure of the Nucleus at the Dawn of the Century"e; was devoted to a discipline which has seen a strong revival of research activities in the last decade.

The Conference "e;Bologna 2000: Structure of the Nucleus at the Dawn of the Century"e; was devoted to a discipline which has seen a strong revival of research activities in the last decade.

The Conference "e;Bologna 2000: Structure of the Nucleus at the Dawn of the Century"e; was devoted to a discipline which has seen a strong revival of research activities in the last decade.

Recently there has been much interest in studying events with tagged forward protons at the existing and forthcoming hadronic colliders, the Tevatron and the LHC.

This volume is centered on recent developments in the exploration of hadronic structure through lepton scattering, in the description of hadron physics directly from lattice QCD and non-perturbative QCD models, and in efforts to strengthen the links between these activities.

The study of N*s can provide us with critical insights into the nature of QCD in the confinement domain.

This is a collection of invited talks and oral contributions presented by the leading scientists in their fields, summarizing the most recent progress of, and new prospects for, nuclear physics research.