Nuclear physics

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.

Elementary Particles: Science, Technology, and Society is a comprehensive review of some important developments in science and technology in relation to the study of particle physics.

The XV Workshop on Nuclear Physics was devoted to the study of nucleon models, nuclear structure, nuclear reactions as well as exotic forms of nuclear matter.

'Dorigo provides an engaging and insightful perspective on the pursuit of physics discoveries at CDF .

Sustainable Nuclear Power provides non-nuclear engineers, scientists and energy planners with the necessary information to understand and utilize the major advances in the field.

Nuclear power offers an abundant energy supply for the long term and at reasonable costs.

Computation is essential to our modern understanding of nuclear systems.

Reflecting on the explosion of research activities in this field over the last decade, this edition has been substantially expanded.

The Asia-Pacific Conferences on Few-Body Problems in Physics tackle cover the various aspects of few-body systems in physics, with high caliber contributions from internationally renowned researchers.

Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials in Construction (COST Action NORM4Building) discusses the depletion of energy resources and raw materials and its huge impact not only on the building market, but also in the development of new synthetic building materials, whereby the reuse of various (waste) residue streams becomes a necessity.

This volume contains the lectures of invited speakers on the following topics: Collective excitations at zero and finite temperature; Algebraic and geometric symmetric nuclear models; Fundamental symmetries in nuclear physics; Fast rotating nuclei; Nuclei far from stability; Nuclear multifragmentation; Nuclear astrophysics; Subnucleonic degrees of freedom; Relativistic effects in nuclear physics; Quark-gluon plasma physics; Order and chaos in nuclear physics; Nuclear physics and atomic aggregates; Applied nuclear physics.

The frontiers of beam research point to increasingly high energy, greater brightness and lower emittance beams with ever-increasing particle species.

This is a review monograph on quark-gluon plasma (QGP).

This book presents the latest advances and future trends in electron and phonon spectrometrics, focusing on combined techniques using electron emissions, electron diffraction, and phonon absorption and reflection spectrometrics from a substance under various perturbations to obtain new information on bond-electron-phonon dynamics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the fifth in a series of meetings dealing with the nuclear fission process, mainly at low excitation energy.

A timely presentation of new results, challenges, and opportunities in the quickly developing field of nuclear cluster physics, presented by an international group of eminent theoretical and experimental scientists active in the field.

This second volume of three on relativistic quantum theories of interacting charged particles discusses quantum theories of systems with variable numbers of particles.

This book constitutes the proceedings of a workshop on 'Exclusive and Semi-exclusive Processes at High Momentum Transfer', sponsored by the Institute for Nuclear Theory (Seattle) and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Laboratory).

Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is a state of matter predicted by the theory of strong interactions - Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).

The Second International Conference on Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei continued the emphasis on fission models, fission processes, properties of neutron-rich nuclei and new directions.

This book presents the foundations of nuclear physics, covering several themes that range from subatomic particles to stars.

The first textbook on this important topic, for graduate students and researchers in particle and condensed matter physics.

Nuclear chemistry is the study of the chemical and physical properties of elements as influenced by changes in the structure of the atomic nucleus.

More than 50 years ago, in 1934, Chadwick and Goldhaber (ChG 34) published a paper entitled "e;A 'Nuclear Photo-effect': Disintegration of the Diplon by -y-Rays.

These proceedings cover the latest results in low energy antiproton physics.

The work provides an overview on modern nuclear astrophysics by summarizing recent achievements in studies of light nuclei and thermonuclear processes at low and ultralow energies in the Universe.

The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century.

Fusion Energy Technology R&D Priorities examines the current landscape of fusion technology.

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

It was no accident that the Holocaust and the Atomic Bomb happened at the same time.

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Julian Schwinger had plans to write a textbook on quantum mechanics since the 1950s when he was teaching the subject at Harvard University regularly.

From Nuclei to Stars

Brillouin-Wigner Methods for Many-Body Systems gives an introduction to many-body methods in electronic structure theory for the graduate student and post-doctoral researcher.

Techniques of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy are constantly being extended to a more diverse range of materials, pressing into service an ever-expanding range of nuclides including some previously considered too intractable to provide usable results.

The science of magnetically confined plasmas covers the entire spectrum of physics from classical and relativistic electrodynamics to quantum mechanics.

The concepts and techniques of nuclear physics are not elementary in the sense that they are easily mastered.

This book discusses the development of Fano-based techniques and reveals the characteristic properties of various wave processes by studying interference phenomena.

This carefully researched book presents facts and arguments showing, beyond a doubt, that nuclear fusion power will not be technically feasible in time to satisfy the world's urgent need for climate-neutral energy.

'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"e;Trinity"e; was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945.

This volume provides a survey of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the rapidly expanding field of heavy ion physics.

Physics is one of the most basic of the sciences: not only is it a fruitful research discipline in it's own right, but it's ideas and techniques underpin developments in many other areas of science, technology and medicine.

Atom was considered an indivisible particle of matter until some decades back, But incessant efforts of scientists have proved it wrong.

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

This textbook forms the basis for an advanced undergraduate or graduate level quantum chemistry course, and can also serve as a reference for researchers in physical chemistry and chemical physics.