Advances in Nuclear Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Nucleon Models

   • Dan Olof Riska

   Pages 1-36

3. Aspects of Electromagnetic Nuclear Physics and Electroweak Interactions

   • T. W. Donnelly

   Pages 37-100

4. Color Transparency and Cross-Section Fluctuations in Hadronic Collisions

   • Gordon Baym

   Pages 101-121

5. Many-Body Methods at Finite Temperature

   • D. Vautherin

   Pages 123-172

6. Nucleosynthesis in the Big Bang and in Stars

   • K. Langanke, C. A. Barnes

   Pages 173-263

7. Back Matter

   Pages 265-271

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This volume presents five pedagogical articles spanning frontier developments in contemporary nuclear physics ranging from the physics of a single nucleon to nucleosynthesis in the Big Bang. Although the objectives of Advances in Nuclear Physics have been and will continue to be quite distinct from those of conventional conference proceedings, the articles in this volume are carefully edited and expanded manuscripts based on an outstanding series of lectures delivered at the VI J. A. Swieca Summer School in Brazil. Starting at the smallest scale, the first article by Dan Olof Riska addresses realistic chiral symmetric models of the nucleon. Since the analytic tools are not yet developed to solve nonperturbative QCD directly, significant effort has been devoted in recent years to the development of models which incorporate and are constrained by the approximate chiral symmetry manifested in QCD. This article provides a clear introduction to chiral symmetry and the Skyrme model, and discusses the Skyrme model’s relation to the chiral bag model, its extensions, and its application to nucleons and hyperons.

• collision
• hadron
• nuclear physics
• nucleon
• weak interaction

from a review of a previous volume
`The editors of this series are known for the clarity and completeness of their own research contributions....it may be that soon the best way to enter research in some area of nuclear physics will be to study the pertinent articles of this series.'
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• Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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• Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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