PHASE TRANSITIONS IN LIQUID CRYSTALS

By RICHARD WILLIAMS

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART A KNOWING THE NUCLEUS: THE NUCLEAR CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS CHAPTER 1 NUCLEAR GLOBAL PROPERTIES CHAPTER 2 GENERAL NUCLEAR RADIOACTIVE DECAY PROPERTIES AND TRANSMUTATIONS PART B NUCLEAR INTERACTIONS: STRONG, WEAK AND ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES CHAPTER GENERAL METHODS ALPHA-DECAY: THE STRONG INTERACTION AT WORK BETA-DECAY: THE WEAK INTERACTION AT WORK GAMMA DECAY: THE ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTION AT WORK PART C NUCLEAR STRUCTURE: AN INTRODUCTION THE LIQUID DROP MODEL APPROACH: A SEMI-EMPIRICAL METHOD THE SIMPLEST INDEPENDENT PARTICLE MODEL: THE FERMI-GAS MODEL THE NUCLEAR SHELL MODEL PART D NUCLEAR STRUCTURE: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS THE NUCLEAR MEAN-FIELD: SINGLE-PARTICLE EXCITATIONS AND GLOBAL NUCLEAR PROPERTIES THE NUCLEAR SHELL M ODEL: INCLUDING THE RESIDUAL INTERACTIONS NUCLEAR PHYSICS OF VERY LIGHT NUCLEI COLLECTIVE M ODES OF MOTION DEFORMATION IN NUCLEI: SHAPES AND RAPID ROTATION NUCLEAR PHYSICS AT THE EXTREMES OF STABILITY: WEAKLY BOUND QUANTUM SYSTEMS AND EXOTIC NUCLEI DEEP INSIDE THE NUCLEUS: SUBNUCLEAR DEGREES OF FREEDOM AND BEYOND OUTLOOK: THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS AS PART OF A LARGER STRUCTURE