The Nuclear Many-Body Problem 2001

In this proceedings volume, international researchers describe recent developments in the field of nuclear many-body theory. Coverage includes QCD-based theories, ab-initio theories of light nuclei, the nuclear shell model, mean-field theories, and symmetry-dictated approaches. Particular attention has been paid to the theoretical aspects of the field of radioactive nuclear beam physics and its interface with nuclear astrophysics, as well as on nuclear spectroscopy. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Preface. I: Nuclear Many-Body Problem: Building Blocks. Role of Chiral Symmetry in the Nuclear Many-Body Problem; N. Kaiser, W. Weise. Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of p-shell Nuclei; S.C. Pieper. Electron Scattering and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem; T.W. Donnelly. Relativistic Effects in Quasielastic Electron Scattering; M.B. Barbaro. II: Nuclear Shell Model. Effective Interactions for Finite Nuclei; M. Hjorth-Jensen. Magic Numbers in Exotic Nuclei and Spin-Isospin Properties of NN Interaction; T. Otsuka, et al. Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for the Nuclear Many Body Problem at Finite Temperature; Y. Alhassid. Quadrupole Collective States in the Monte-Carlo Shell Model; N. Shimizu, et al. Variational Approach to Medium Mass N=Z Nuclei; A. Petrovici. Description of Exotic Nuclei using Continuum Shell Model; N. Michel, et al. III: Relativistic Models. Relativistic Field Theories and the Microscopic Description of the Nuclear System; P. Ring. Relativistic Mean Field Approach with Density and Momentum-Dependent Coupling Vertices; S. Typel, H.H. Wolter. Effects of New Couplings from Relativistic Effective Field Theory Models; M. Centelles, et al. Rotating Nuclei in the Relativistic Mean Field Theory: Microscopic nature of nuclear magnetism; A.V. Afanaesjev, et al. Nuclear Fission Described in the Framework of the Relativistic Mean Field Theory: The Strutinsky type approach; V.V. Pashkevich, P. Ring. Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry in Nuclei; J.N. Ginocchio, A. Leviatan. Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry and the Structure of Nuclear States; A. Leviatan, J.N. Ginocchio. The Pseudospin Symmetry in Finite Nuclei: Dirac Phenomenology; S. Marcos, et al. IV: Symmetry Dictated Approaches. Microscopic Description of Heavy Deformed Nuclei; J.G. Hirsch, et al. Electromagnetic Transition Strengths in 104Cd and 101Ag and their Interpretation within the Interacting Boson (Fermion) plus Broken Pair Model; A. Jungclaus, et al. Investigation of Properties of Mixed Symmetry States in 94Mo and 96Ru; P. von Brentano, et al. V: Pairing in Nuclei. Sources of Pairing in Nuclei; R.A. Broglia. Relativistic Theory of Pairing in Finite Nuclei; M. Serra, P. Ring. Pairing Properties in Relativistic Mean Field Models Based on Effective Field Theory; M. Del Estal, et al. Contact Pairing Interaction for the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Calculations; J. Dobaczewski, et al. Size Dependence of Pairing in Finite Fermi Systems; M. Farine, P. Schuck. Pairing Correlations along the Fission Path; H.J. Krappe, S. Fadeev. VI: Nuclear Collective Motion. Multi-Phonon States in Spherical Nuclei; V.Y. Ponomarev. Collective Properties of the Low Energy Dipole Response in the Relativistic RPA; N. Paar, et al. Extensions of the Perturbed SPA: Decay Rates of Damped Systems and Improvement for Small Temperatures; C. Rummel, et al. High-Spin Structure of Neutron-rich Dy Isotopes; A. Ansari, H.L. Yadav. VII: Nuclei Far From Stability. The Challenges of Understanding Exotic Nuclei; R.F. Casten. Quadrupole Collectivity in Theories Beyond Mean Field with Effective Forces; R. Rodriguez-Guzmán, et al. Mean-field Treatment of Isobaric Excitations in N-Z Nuclei. Search for the Isoscalar Pairing Collectivity; W. Satula. Particle-Unstable Nuclei: Mean Field Description; A.T. Kruppa, et al. Proton Emission from Gamow Resonance; T. Vertse, et al. Nucleon Distributions in Loosely Bound Nuclei; Y.K. Gambhir. Alpha Cluster Condensation in Threshold States of Self-conjugate 4n Nuclei; P. Schuck, et al. VIII: Superheavy Nuclei. Superheavy Elements &endash; Discoveries and Challenges; G. Münzenberg. Towards the Structure of the Heaviest Nuclei; P.A. Butler. A Liquid Drop Model (LDM) for Nuclear Semi-Bubbles or, more generally, Systems Consisting of Domains with Different Constant Density; J.-F. Berger, et al. Synthesis of Superheavy Elements; V.Yu. Denisov. Recent Investigations of Superheavy Elements; R. Smolańczuk. IX: Weak Interactions and Astrophysics. Weak-Interaction Processes in Nuclear Astrophysics; K. Langanke. Hartree-Fock-BCS Calculations of Beta-decay Half-lives; I.N. Borzov. Neutrino Propagation in Neutron Matter and the Nuclear Equation of State; J. Margueron, et al. Properties of Nuclei in the Neutron Star Crust; P. Magierski, et al. X: Intersections. Shell Model with Random Interactions; V. Zelevinsky, et al. Kohn-Sham Approximation with Finite Range Forces; X. Viñas, et al. Thermal Phase Transitions in Finite Quantum Systems; D.J. Dean. Fractality for the Nuclear Line of Stability, Atomic Weights and Molecular Weights; V. Paar, et al. Index.