Response of the Nuclear System to External Forces: Proceedings of the V La Rábida International Summer School on Nuclear Physics Held at La Rábida, Huelva, Spain 19 June – 1 July 1994

John Dirk Walecka (auth.), Jose Miguel Arias, María Isabel Gallardo, Manuel Lozano (eds.)3540590072, 9783540590071

Written in a pedagogical way, the articles in this book address graduate students as well as researchers and are well suited for seminar work. Subjects at the forefront of nuclear research, bordering other areas of many-particle physics, such as electron scattering at different energy scales, new physics with radioactive beams, multifragmentation, relativistic nuclear physics, high spin nuclear problems, chaos, the role of the continuum in nuclear physics or recent calculations with the shell model are presented. It is felt that the topics treated in this book address the main future lines of development of nuclear physics.

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Table of contents :
Electron scattering….Pages 1-12
Elementary nuclear excitations studied with electromagnetic and Hadronic probes….Pages 13-59
Probing nucleon and nuclear structure with high-energy electrons….Pages 61-94
Relativistic theory of the structure of finite nuclei….Pages 95-114
Semiclassical description of the relativistic nuclear mean field theory….Pages 115-129
Photonuclear reactions….Pages 131-151
Notes on scaling and critical behaviour in nuclear fragmentation….Pages 153-179
The continuum in nuclei….Pages 181-194
Spherical shell model, a renewed view….Pages 195-209
High spins and exotic shapes….Pages 211-229
Heavy ion scattering problems; regular and chaotic regimes….Pages 231-249
Deterministic chaos in heavy-ion reactions….Pages 251-262
Nuclear level repulsion, order vs. chaos and conserved quantum numbers….Pages 263-271
Nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics with radioactive nuclear beams….Pages 273-288