Theoretical Nuclear Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. General Properties of the Nucléus

   • John M. Blatt, Victor F. Weisskopf

   Pages 1-47

3. Two-Body Problems at Low Energies

   • John M. Blatt, Victor F. Weisskopf

   Pages 48-118

4. Nuclear Forces

   • John M. Blatt, Victor F. Weisskopf

   Pages 119-167

5. Two-Body Problems at High Energies

   • John M. Blatt, Victor F. Weisskopf

   Pages 168-190

6. Three- and Four-Body Problems

   • John M. Blatt, Victor F. Weisskopf

   Pages 191-210

7. Nuclear Spectroscopy I. General Theory

   • John M. Blatt, Victor F. Weisskopf

   Pages 211-265

8. Nuclear Spectroscopy II. Special Models

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   Pages 266-310

9. Nuclear Reactions: General Theory

   • John M. Blatt, Victor F. Weisskopf

   Pages 311-457

10. Nuclear Reactions; Application of the Theory to Experiments

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    Pages 458-516

11. Formal Theory of Nuclear Reactions

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    Pages 517-564

12. Spontaneous Decay of Nuclei

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    Pages 565-582

13. Interaction of Nuclei with Electromagnetic Radiation

    • John M. Blatt, Victor F. Weisskopf

    Pages 583-669

14. Beta-Decay

    • John M. Blatt, Victor F. Weisskopf

    Pages 670-760

15. Nuclear Shell Structure

    • John M. Blatt, Victor F. Weisskopf

    Pages 761-780

16. Back Matter

    Pages 781-864

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The last twenty years have witnessed an enormous development of nuclear physics. A large number of data have accumulated and many experimental facts are known. As the experimental techniques have achieved greater and greater perfection, the theoretical analysis and interpretation of these data have become correspondingly more accurate and detailed. The development of nuclear physics has depended on the development of physics as a whole. While there were interesting speculations about nuclear constitution as early as 1922, it was impossible to make any quantitative theory of even the simplest nucleus until the discovery of quantum mechanics on the one hand, and the development of experimental methods sufficiently sensitive to detect the presence of a neutral particle (the neutron) on the other hand. The further development of our understanding of the nucleus has depended, and still depends, on the development of ever more powerful experimental techniques for measuring nuclear properties and more powerful theoretical techniques for correlating these properties. Practically every "simple," "reasonable," and "plausible" assumption made in theoretical nuclear physics has turned out to be in need of refinement; and the numerous attempts to derive nuclear forces and the properties of nuclei from a more" fundamental" approach than the analysis of the data have proved unsuccessful so far. Nuclear physics is by no means a finished edifice.

• Cross section
• Kernphysik
• Nuclear
• Physics
• electron
• electron capture
• element
• fission
• mechanics
• neutron
• nuclear physics
• nuclear reaction
• quantum mechanics
• radiation
• scattering

• Department of Applied Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

  John M. Blatt

• Department of Physics, Massachesets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  Victor F. Weisskopf

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