Japanese physicists associated with the Research Center for Nuclear Physics at Osaka University where they have access to a medium-to-high energy cyclotron, provide a broad overview of nuclear physics in terms of both hadron-meson dynamics and quark-lepton dynamics at a level accessible to graduate students and professionals. They consider such topics as elastic and inelastic scattering, spin-isospin responses and charge exchange reactions, giant resonances, nuclear clusters, and nuclear physics with a strange flavor. Each begins with an introduction to the topic, briefly reviews the history, and explains the theoretical background and experimental techniques before exploring the achievements leading to the current status and the questions that remain to be explored. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A well-designed introduction to experimental and theoretical nuclear physics that will help graduate students and researchers alike bridge the gap between what is known about nucleon-meson nuclear physics and what will be learned from future research in quark-lepton nuclear physics. The book describes nuclear physics in terms of hadron-meson dynamics and then in terms of quark-lepton dynamics. Chapters cover such topics as elastic and inelastic scattering; spin-isospin responses and charge exchange reactions; giant resonances; nuclear clusters; and nuclear physics with strange flavor.
The book covers each subject from the experimental and theoretical point of view and each chapter, written by a leaders in the field, includes enough prerequisite material to make the subject matter easily accessible to graduate-level students as well as researchers changing fields.
List of contributors ix Figure acknowledgements xii Introduction 1(17) H. Ejiri H. Toki Elastic and inelastic scattering 18(32) H. Sakaguchi Spin--iospin responses and charge-exchange reactions 50(27) M. Fujiwara Giant resonances and highly excited states 77(49) Y. Fujita Breakup processes and cluster structures of light composite projectiles 126(24) Y. Sakuragi Nuclear clusters 150(40) S. Ohkubo T. Yamaya P. E. Hodgson Physics of snowballs---impurity ions in superfluid helium 190(20) N. Takahashi T. Shimoda Deeply bound pionic atoms 210(16) H. Toki S. Hirenzaki N. Matsuoka Atomic physics with cyclotron beams 226(24) I. Katayama Nuclear physics with strange flavour 250(42) T. Kishimoto T. Motoba Quark nuclear physics 292(21) H. Toki H. Suganuma Lepton nuclear physics 313(24) H. Ejiri Index 337
Professor Hiroyasu Ejiri, Director of Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, JAPAN Tel +81 6 879 8900; fax: +81 6 879 8899; email: ejiri@rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp Professor Hiroshi Toki, Professor of Physics, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, JAPAN Tel +81 6 879 8941; fax: +81 6 879 8898; email: toki@rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp
