The proceedings of the symposium on Nuclear Collective Motion and Nuclear Reaction Dynamics is dedicated to three main areas: to survey the present state of studies in nuclear collective motion and nuclear reaction dynamics, to study the possible future directions of these two topics and to commemorate the work of the late Taro Tamura.
The RIKEN Symposium was held in December of 1989 with 3 main goals in mind. The first goal was to survey the present status of studies in nuclear collective motion and nuclear reaction dynamics. The second goal was to look into future directions of the two topics. The third goal of the Symposium was to commemorate the work of the late Professor Taro Tamura.
The two most important developments in nuclear physics were the shell model and the collective model. The former gives the formal framework for a description of nuclei in terms of interacting neutrons and protons. The latter provides a very physical but phenomenological framework for interpreting the observed properties of nuclei. A third approach, based on variational and mean-field methods, brings these two perspectives together in terms of the so-called unified models. Together, these three approaches provide the foundations on which nuclear physics is based. They need to be understood by everyone practicing or teaching nuclear physics, and all those who wish to gain an understanding of the foundations of the models and their relationships to microscopic theory as given by recent developments in terms of dynamical symmetries. This book provides a simple presentation of the models and theory of nuclear collective structure, with an emphasis on the physical content and the ways they are used to interpret data. Part 1 presents the basic phenomenological collective vibrational and rotational models as introduced by Bohr and Mottelson and their many colleagues. It also describes the extensions of these models to parallel unified models in which neutrons and protons move in a mean-field with collective degrees of freedom. Part 2 presents the predominant theories used to describe the collective properties of nuclei in terms of interacting nucleons. These theories, which are shared with other many-body systems, are shown to emerge naturally from the unified models of Part 1.
The aim of the DANF conference was to present and discuss new theoretical and experimental results in the field of nuclear fission dynamics. The conference program was designed to cover a wide range of physical phenomena including spontaneous and induced fission at low and intermediate energies and fragmentation of hot nuclei. Among the topics discussed at the conference were: the development of various theories, experiments on the synthesis of superheavy elements, fusion-fission processes and the decay of complex nuclear systems, binary and ternary fission, nuclear structure of neutron-rich nuclei and the peculiarities of exotic nuclear reactions. Attention was also paid to the recent progress in developing radioactive ion beam facilities. The development of new methods was also on the conference agenda.
This book covers new experimental and theoretical studies that focus on the modern developments of nuclear fission, aiming at various applications in a wide range of fields and bringing together scientists working in different fields related to nuclear fission. The following topics are dealt with: radioactive beam facilities based on nuclear fission; nuclear waste transmutations and the future accelerator-driven system; fission and spallation nuclear data and modeling; experimental and theoretical advances in the study of nuclear fission; fusion reactions and decay modes of superheavy nuclei; stability against fission and many-body systems; superasymmetric and multicluster fission.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: ? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings? (ISTP? / ISI Proceedings)? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)? CC Proceedings ? Engineering & Physical Sciences
Contents:Nuclear Structure:Multiphonon Giant Resonances (C A Bertulani)Relativistic Description of Dripline Nuclei (P Ring)Magnetic Rotations in the Lead Region (R V Ribas)Nucleon–Nucleon Interaction:A Review of the Nucleon–Nucleon Paris Potential (B Loiseau)Nuclear Forces and Nuclear Structure (R Machleidt)Relativity and the Nuclear Interaction (J A Tjon)Nuclear Reactions:Experimental Studies of Exotic Nuclei (A Lépine-Szily)Out of Plane Spectrometry and the Issue of Nucleon Deformation (C N Papanicolas)Applied Nuclear Physics:Large Neutron Tomography (W Treimer)Nuclear Physics and Medicine (C C Robilotta)and other papers Readership:
