Contents:

• Introduction: Traditional Pictures of Nuclear Structure
• Dirac Phenomenology and Relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock Theory
• Application of Dirac Phenomenology
• The Relativistic Impulse Approximation
• Importance of Scalar Fields in Nuclear and Particle Physics
• The Nucleus as a Relativistic Fermi Liquid: Effective Lagrangians and One-Boson-Exchange Models of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction
• Relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock Theory
• Calculation of the Nucleon Self-Energy in Nuclear Matter
• Binding Energy and Saturation Density of Nuclear Matter
• The Effective Interaction between Nuclear Quasi-Particles-the Migdal Parameterization
• Models of Finite Nuclei
• The Nuclear Optical Model: The Self-Energy of a Continuum Nucleon in Nuclear Matter
• The Relativistic Optical Model for Finite Nuclei
• Relation between Relativistic and Non-Relativistic Optical Models
• Scattering Amplitudes: On-Shell and Off-Shell
• The Relativistic Impulse Approximation
• Applications of the Relativistic Impulse Approximation
• Appendices: Notation and Conventions
• Feynman Diagrams with Nonperturbative Elements
• Rules for the Evaluation of Feynman Diagrams and the Relativistic Impulse Approximation
• The Bethe-Salpeter Equation
• The Boson-Exchange-Model of the Nuclear Force
• Self-Consistent-Field Methods in Relativistic Many-Body Theory
• Scattering Amplitudes, Cross Sections and Spin Observables