THEORETICAL NUCLEAR AND SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS
Second Edition
by John Dirk Walecka (College of William and Mary, USA)
Professor Walecka is Governor's Distinguished CEBAF Professor of Physics, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary. He was the Scientific Director of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) in its initial stage (from 1986 to 1992). He was awarded the Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics by the American Physical Society and was a Distinguished Schiff Lecturer and Primakoff Lecturer. For his many contributions to research, administration, and teaching, he was awarded the Virginia Lifetime Achievement in Science.
This book is a revised and updated version of the most comprehensive text on nuclear and subnuclear physics, first published in 1995. It maintains the original goal of providing a clear, logical, in-depth, and unifying treatment of modern nuclear theory, ranging from the nonrelativistic many-body problem to the standard model of the strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions. In addition, new chapters on the theoretical and experimental advances made in nuclear and subnuclear physics in the past decade have been incorporated.
Four key topics are emphasized: basic nuclear structure, the relativistic nuclear many-body problem, strong-coupling QCD, and electroweak interactions with nuclei. New chapters have been added on the many-particle shell model, effective field theory, density functional theory, heavy-ion reactions and quark-gluon plasma, neutrinos, and electron scattering.
This book is designed to provide graduate students with a basic understanding of modern nuclear and hadronic physics needed to explore the frontiers of the field. Researchers will benefit from the updates on developments and the bibliography.
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