THE PROJECT PHYSICS COURSE, TEXT & HANDBOOK: NUCLEUS
Chapter 1 NUCLEON MODELS 1 Introduction 2 3 5 2 Chiral Symmetry 3 The Chiral Bag Model 4 Chiral Meson Theory 6 5 The Skyrme Model 8 6 The Skyrmion 10 7 Currents and Form Factors 12 8 The Skyrme Model and the Chiral Bag Model 15 16 10 Explicit Vector Meson Fields 19 11 The Hyperons 22 12 The Hyperon Spectrum 26 13 The Hyperon Magnetic Moments 29 14 Exotics 30 15 The Limits of the Bound State Model 16 The End of the Nucleon Models 9 Extensions of the Model 31 33 1 References 35 Chapter 2 ASPECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND ELECTROWEAK INTERACTIONS 1 Introduction 37 2 Leptonic Tensor 40 21 Unpolarized Electron Scattering 41 22 Polarized Incident Electrons 41 23 Polarized Incident and Scattered Electrons 44 47 31 Inclusive Electron Scattering 47 51 52 56 32 The Reaction A(e, e´): Leptonic Polarization Transfer 33 Exclusive-1 Electron Scattering, No Hadronic Polarizations 34 Exclusive-n Electron Scattering, No Hadronic Polarizations 35 General Coincidence Electron Scattering Including Hadronic Polarizations 57 36 Relationships Involving the Reactions A(e, e? x) and A(??, x) 63 4 The Plane-Wave Impulse Approximation 65 41 Introduction; General Kinematics of Exclusive-1 Electron Scattering 65 42 Specification of the Model 70 43 Half-Off-Shell Single-Nucleon Responses 74 44 The Unpolarized CC1(0) and CC2(0) Responses 75 45 Inclusive Scattering in the PWIA: y-Scaling 76 46 The Polarized CC1(0) and CC2(0) Responses 78 5 Parity-Violating Electron Scattering 81 51 Introduction 81 52 Elastic Scattering from 0+ Nuclei 84 53 Elastic Scattering from the Proton 87 54 Parity-Violating Quasi-Elastic Scattering 91 55 Experimental Scenario 98 3 Hardronic Response Functions 37 References 99 Chapter 3 COLOR TRANSPARENCY AND CROSS-SECTION FLUCTUATIONS IN HADRONIC COLLISIONS 1 Introduction 101 2 Positronium Passing through a Foil 102 4 Cross-Section Fluctuations 106 5 Extracting Cross-section Fluctuations from Experiment 108 51 Inelastic Shadowing in Hadron-Deuteron Scattering 108 52 Diffractive Scattering 111 53 Model Cross-Section Distributions 114 6 Proton-Nucleus Collisions 116 7 Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions 118 References 120 3 Hadron-Nucleus Interactions 105 Chapter 4 MANY-BODY METHODS AT FINITE TEMPERATURE 1 Nuclear Partition Functions 123 11 Introduction 123 12 Partition Functions in Astrophysics 125 13 Grand Canonical Formalism for Independent Nucleons 127 14 Variational Method and Mean-Field Approximation 129 2 Thermodynamic Perturbation Theory 135 101 123 21 Dyson’s Expansion 135 22 Diagrams 142 23 Thermal Green’s Functions 145 24 The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) 147 25 The Time-Dependent Mean-Field Approximation and RPA 151 26 Linear Response Theory in Hot Nuclear Matter 154 3 Giant Resonances in Hot Nuclei 157 31 Photoabsorption by Hot Nuclei 157 32 Sum Rules at Finite Temperature 160 33 Observation of Giant Resonances in Hot Nuclei 162 34 The Schematic Model at Finite Temperature 162 35 Numerical Solution of the Thermal RPA Equations 165 36 The Level Density Parameter in Excited Nuclei 167 References 171 Chapter 5 NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN THE BIG BANG AND IN STARS 1 Introduction 173 2 The Nuclear Physics Input 178 21 Rate Equations and Reaction Rates 178 22 Neutron-Induced Reactions 180 23 Nonresonant Charged-Particle Reactions 181 24 Resonant Reactions of Charged Particles 184 26 Plasma Screening 187 27 Electron Screening in Laboratory Nuclear Reactions 3 Nucleosynthesis in the Big Bang 191 25 The General Case 186 189 31 Gamow’s Hypothesis 191 193 33 The Inhomogeneous Big Bang Model 198 32 Nucleosynthesis in the Standard Big Bang Model 34 Nucleosynthesis in Inhomogeneous Big Bang Models 201 173 4 The Sun 206 41 The Standard Solar Model 207 42 Hydrogen Burning 208 43 Solar Neutrinos 211 Solutions to the Solar Neutrino Problem 220 5 Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars 229 51 Hydrostatic Burning Phases 230 52 Pre-Supernova Nucleosynthesis 240 53 The Core Collapse 245 54 Explosive Burning 251 References 259