Common Problems in Low- and Medium-Energy Nuclear Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. The Weak Interaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Weak Neutral Currents in Nuclear Processes

      • H. Primakoff

      Pages 3-32

   3. Novel Topics in π Nuclear Physics

      • T. E. O. Ericson

      Pages 33-78

   4. The Mysterious Muon

      • Pierre Depommier

      Pages 79-103

   5. Axial Currents and Pionic Modes in Nuclei

      • Mannque Rho

      Pages 105-127

   6. Microscopic Calculations of the Quenching of gA and of the Gamow-Teller Matrix Elements in A = 15, 17, 39 and 41 Systems

      • I. S. Towner, F. C. Khanna

      Pages 129-147

   7. Correlations and Total Muon Capture Rates

      • Aram Mekjian

      Pages 149-163

   8. Observation of Two-Photon Emission in Nuclear Pion-Capture: Pion-Pion Annihilation in Nuclei

      • J. P. Deutsch

      Pages 165-170

3. Quarks and Nuclear Structure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. A Quasi-Nuclear Coloured Quark Model for Hadrons

      • H. J. Lipkin

      Pages 173-212

   3. Pion Fields and Quarks in Nuclear Matter

      • Gordon Baym

      Pages 213-239

   4. Baryon-Antibaryon Systems

      • S. H. Kahana

      Pages 241-262

4. Physics of Electrons, Protons, and Kaons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263

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   2. Theoretical Investigations of the Optical Model for Nucleons at Negative, Low and Intermediate Energies

      • C. Mahaux

      Pages 265-349

   3. Nuclear Studies Involving Intermediate Energy Projectiles

      • G. E. Walker

      Pages 351-395

   4. Examples Where We Actually Learn Something about Nuclear Structure from Medium Energy Experiments

      • Larry Zamick

      Pages 397-416

   5. The New Giant Resonances — An Experimental Review

      • Fred E. Bertrand

      Pages 417-451

   6. Microscopic Theories of Giant Resonances

      • K. Goeke

      Pages 453-473

   7. Giant Monopole Resonances in Nuclei and Compressibility of Nuclear Matter

      • J. P. Blaizot

      Pages 475-483

The 1978 Advanced Study Institute in Nuclear Theory devoted to common problems in Low and Intermediate Energy Nuclear Physics was held at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada from August 21 through September 1, 1978. The present volume contains the text of 25 lectures and seminars given at the Institute and illustrates the directions that nuclear physicists are taking in the evolution toward a unified picture of low, medium and high energy phenomena. Recent attempts at unifying the weak and electromagnetic inter­ action in particle physics have led naturally to question their role in nuclei. The success of the quark model at interpreting the new resonances in high energy physics makes it imperative to consider their role in dealing with nuclear physics problems at the microscopic level. Is our present knowledge of the nuclear potential consistent' with recent experimental evidence at low and medium energy and can it correlate meaningfully nuclear and pion physics phenomena? These are some of the fundamental questions debated in this book attempting to offer a consistent picture of the nuclear system as it emerges using the electromagnetic, weak and strong interaction probe. The lectures and seminars forming the present volume have been divided into four sections dealing with a) the weak interaction, b) quarks and nuclear structure, c) physics of electrons, protons and kaons, and finally d) pion physics.

• electron
• electrons
• energy
• fields
• hadron
• high energy physics
• kinematics
• nuclear physics
• particle physics
• photon
• physics
• quark
• scattering
• strong interaction
• weak interaction

• Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

  B. Castel

• University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

  B. Goulard

• Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River, Canada

  F. C. Khanna

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