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All of my lecture notes and PowerPoint presentations are posted in the "Lecture materials" section of this Website. The lecture material has been assembled from a variety of textbooks, review articles, journal articles, and Websites on low-energy nuclear structure and reaction theory which are referenced below.
1) K. Heyde, "Basic Ideas and Concepts in Nuclear Physics", 3rd edition (2006)
2) W. Greiner and J.A. Maruhn, "Nuclear Models", Springer Verlag (1996)
1) P. Ring and P. Schuck, "The Nuclear Many-Body Problem", Springer Verlag
2) A. deShalit and H. Feshbach, "Theoretical Nuclear Physics", Vol. 1 and 2
3) J.P. Blaizot and G. Ripka, "Quantum Theory of Finite Systems", MIT Press
4) A. L. Fetter and J.D. Walecka, "Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems", Dover
1) "Self-consistent mean-field models for nuclear structure",
M. Bender, P.-H. Heenen, and P.-G. Reinhard,
Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 75, No.1 (2003), pages 121-180
(PDF file, 2.5MB)
2) "Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of excited states in A=6-8 nuclei",
S. C. Pieper, R. B. Wiringa and J. Carlson, Phys. Rev. C 70, 054325 (2004)
(PDF file, 200 kB)
3) "Benchmark calculations for 3H, 4He, 16O, and 40Ca with ab initio coupled-cluster theory",
G. Hagen, D. J. Dean, M. Hjorth-Jensen, T. Papenbrock, and A. Schwenk,
Phys. Rev. C 76, 044305 (2007)
(PDF file, 600 kB)
Here is a list of some of the most important Nuclear Physics journals which
are available in the VU Science Library; even better, you may download
articles from the electronic journals section:
Physical Review C, and Physical Review Letters
The European Physical Journal A
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Physics Letters B
Nuclear Physics A
Reviews of Modern Physics (excellent review articles on all areas of physics)
1. National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC) at Brookhaven Nat. Lab.
Here you can find lots of experimental data on low-energy nuclear structure and reactions.
For example, to get information about a nuclear isotope such as "tin-120", click on "Chart of Nuclides"
and enter on the right side in the "Nucleus" entry the mass number and chemical symbol
of the isotope (120Sn in this case) and push the "go" button. To get the measured
binding energy per nucleon, push the "BE/A" button at the top left. To get info about
nuclear energy levels, click either "list of levels" or "level scheme" at the bottom.
1. Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB)
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) will be a new national user facility
for nuclear science, funded by the Department of Energy and operated by Michigan
State University (MSU). FRIB will cost approximately $600 million to establish and
take about a decade for MSU to design and build. As a national user facility, FRIB
will provide intense beams of rare isotopes (that is, short-lived nuclei not normally
found on Earth). FRIB will enable scientists to make discoveries about the properties
of these rare isotopes in order to better understand the physics of nuclei, nuclear
astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and applications for society.
2.
FRIB Theory Group Website
The primary purpose of the FRIB Theory Group is to
organize the nuclear theory community interested in FRIB physics.
3.
RIA Theory Bluebook: a road map
Excellent overview of nuclear theory issues related to FRIB, including
nuclear structure, nuclear reactions, nuclear matter equation of state, and
nuclear astrophysics.
This 44-page report (PDF file, 1.3 MB) has been produced in September 2005
by the RIA (Rare Isotope Accelerator) Theory Group, the precursor of the current FRIB
Theory Group.
4. ORNL astrophysics program
In particular, the utilization of radioactive ion beams for nuclear astrophysics is discussed
in the review article
"Nuclear Astrophysics Measurements with Radioactive Beams"
by
M.S. Smith and K.E. Rehm, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 51, 91 (2001).