Overview
- Teaches students the fundamentals necessary to understand modern nuclear physics
- Describes concisely interdisciplinary connections with elementary particle physics and astrophysics
- Covers various cutting-edge topics in nuclear physics, such as exotic structure of unstable nuclei, effective field theory, and lattice QCD on many body problems in nuclei and technologies of modern experimental facilities
- Includes careful mathematical derivations, illustrations, and exercises with complete solutions
Part of the book series: UNITEXT for Physics (UNITEXTPH)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Theories, Phenomena and Observables of Nuclear Structure
- Superheavy Elements
- Unstable Nuclei
- Halo and Skin Nuclei
- Di-neutron Correlations and Superfluidity
- Yukawa Force
- Lattice Quantum Chromodynamcis
- Chiral Effective Theory
- Astronuclear Physics
- Celestial Observables and Neutron Stars
- Quarks, Gluons and CMK Matrix in Standard Model
- Nuclear Reaction, Nuclear Fusion and Nuclear Fission
- Lattice OCD
- Open shell nuclei
About this book
The book begins with the conceptual and mathematical basics of quantum mechanics, and goes into the main point of nuclear physics – nuclear structure, radioactive ion beam physics, and nuclear reactions. The last chapters devote interdisciplinary topics in association with astrophysics and particle physics.
A number of illustrations and exercises with complete solutions are given. Each chapter is comprehensively written starting from fundamentals to gradually reach modern aspects of nuclear physics with the objective to provide an effective description of the cutting edge in the field.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Alexandre Obertelli received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris XI, France, in 2005. He is Alexander-von-Humboldt professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. He carries experiments on the structure of radioactive nuclei at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory of RIKEN, Japan, at CERN, Switzerland, and GSI/FAIR, Germany.
Hiroyuki Sagawa is a senior visiting scientist at RIKEN, Japan, and a professor emeritus at the University of Aizu, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Tohoku University in 1975. After he worked at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark, Paris-Sud University in France, and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory in USA, he was appointed as a research associate at the University of Tokyo and then moved to the University of Aizu as a full professor. His work mainly involves nuclear structure and reaction theory, and he also actively contributes to book publishing programs.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modern Nuclear Physics
Book Subtitle: From Fundamentals to Frontiers
Authors: Alexandre Obertelli, Hiroyuki Sagawa
Series Title: UNITEXT for Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2289-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2288-5Published: 27 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2291-5Published: 28 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2289-2Published: 25 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2198-7882
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7890
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 727
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations, 256 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Nuclear Fusion, Astrophysics and Astroparticles