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Nuclear physics / Nuclear Physics Panel, Physics Survey Committee, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Physics through the 1990s.
- Physics through the 1990s
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Research Council (U.S.). Nuclear Physics Panel.
- National Research Council (U.S.).
- Nuclear physics.
- Nuclear physics--Research--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Nuclear Physics
- Copyright
- PREFACE
- Contents
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- NUCLEAR PHYSICS TODAY
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS
- The Planned Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
- The Next Major Initiative: the Relativistic Nuclear Collider
- Additional Facility Opportunities
- Nuclear Instrumentation
- Nuclear Theory
- Accelerator Research and Development
- Training New Scientists
- Enriched Stable Isotopes
- Nuclear-Data Compilation
- 1 Introduction to Nuclear Physics
- THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS
- THE NUCLEAR MANY-BODY PROBLEM
- THE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES
- THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
- Leptons
- Quarks
- Elementary Vector Bosons
- CONSERVATION LAWS AND SYMMETRIES
- ACCELERATORS AND DETECTORS
- Projectiles and Targets
- Energies
- Nuclear Interactions
- Particle Detectors
- I MAJOR ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS
- 2 Nuclear Structure and Dynamics
- ELEMENTARY MODES OF EXCITATION
- Giant Electric Resonances
- Giant Spin Vibrations
- Deltas in Nuclei
- Electron-Scattering Results
- The Interacting Boson Model
- MACROSCOPIC NUCLEAR DYNAMICS
- Resonances in Heavy-Ion Systems
- Deep-Inelastic Collisions
- The Three-Nucleon Nucleus and Infinite Nuclear Matter
- Properties of Finite Nuclei
- The Effective NN Interaction at Intermediate Energies
- Expanding the Traditional Many-Body Theory
- 3 Fundamental Forces in the Nucleus
- NONNUCLEONIC CONSTITUENTS OF NUCLEI
- Probing Quark Structure with Leptons
- The Physics of Hypernuclei
- Quantum Chromodynamics at Low Energies
- THE NUCLEUS AS A LABORATORY FOR FUNDAMENTAL SYMMETRIES
- Right-Handed Bosons in Beta Decay
- The Mass of the Neutrino
- Neutrino Oscillations
- Double Beta Decay
- Parity Violation in Nuclei
- 4 Nuclei Under Extreme Conditions
- NUCLEI AT HIGH TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY.
- High Nuclear Temperatures
- High Nuclear Densities
- Nuclear-Matter Equation of State
- THE HEAVIEST ELEMENTS
- New Transfermium Elements
- The Search for Superheavy Elements
- HIGHLY UNSTABLE NUCLEI
- Exotic Radioactivities
- Long Isotopic Sequences
- Nuclei with Extremely High Spin
- II IMPACTS OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS
- 5 Nuclear Astrophysics
- NUCLEI UNDER EXTREME ASTROPHYSICAL CONDITIONS
- Nucleosynthesis of Light Elements
- Supernova Explosions and Neutron-Star Formation
- Weak-Interaction Processes in Supernovas
- NUCLEAR REACTIONS IN STARS
- The Solar-Neutrino Problem
- Stellar Evolution
- 6 Scientific and Societal Benefits
- CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS
- ATOMIC PHYSICS
- GEOLOGY AND COSMOLOGY
- NUCLEAR AND RADIATION MEDICINE
- MATERIALS MODIFICATION AND ANALYSIS
- ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
- THE FINE ARTS
- III CURRENT FRONTIERS OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS
- 7 Approaching the Quark-Gluon Plasma
- STATES OF NUCLEAR MATTER
- ACHIEVING QUARK DECONFINEMENT
- DETECTING THE QUARK-GLUON PLASMA
- ADDITIONAL RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION PHYSICS
- 8 Changing Descriptions of Nuclear Matter
- QUARKS IN NUCLEI
- MESONS AND BARYON RESONANCES IN NUCLEI
- NUCLEAR PROPERTIES UNDER EXTREME CONDITIONS
- 9 The Electroweak Synthesis and Beyond
- THE STANDARD MODEL
- PHYSICS WITH NEUTRINO BEAMS
- TESTING THE GRAND UNIFIED THEORIES
- Time-Reversal-Invariance Violation
- The Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron
- RARE MUON AND KAON DECAYS
- 10 Recommended Priorities for Nuclear Physics
- ACCELERATORS IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS
- Existing Facilities
- THE NEXT MAJOR INITIATIVE: THE RELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLIDER
- Recommendations from the NSAC 1983 Long Range Plan
- Complementary Aspects of CEBAF and the RNC
- FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS
- Additional Facility Opportunities.
- Nuclear Instrumentation
- Nuclear Data Compilation
- APPENDIXES
- A National and Dedicated University Accelerator Facilities
- B Advisors and Reviewers
- Participants in the DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee's Long Range Plan Workshop, Wells...
- Agency Representatives
- Chairmen of Working Groups
- Participants In Working Groups Who Did Not Attend Workshop
- Readers of The Nuclear Physics Panel Report (February-March 1984)
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ARTICLES FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
- BOOKS
- GLOSSARY
- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
- TECHNICAL TERMS
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-202).
- ISBN:
- 9786610222353
- 9781280222351
- 1280222352
- 9780309554725
- 0309554721
- 9780585144634
- 058514463X
- OCLC:
- 427374950
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