Nuclear methods and the nuclear equation of state

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    • Baldo, Marcello

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Nuclear methods and the nuclear equation of state

edited by Marcello Baldo

(International review of nuclear physics, v. 8)

World Scientific, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The theoretical study of the nuclear equation of state (EOS) is a field of research which deals with most of the fundamental problems of nuclear physics. This book gives an overview of the present status of the microscopic theory of the nuclear EOS. Its aim is essentially twofold: first, to serve as a textbook for students entering the field, by covering the different subjects as exhaustively and didactically as possible; second, to be a reference book for all researchers active in the theory of nuclear matter, by providing a report on the latest developments. Special emphasis is given to the numerous open problems existing at present and the prospects for their possible solutions.The general framework of the different approaches presented in the book is the meson theory of nuclear forces — where no free parameter is introduced — and the many-body treatment of nucleon-nucleon correlations. The ultimate hope of this world-wide effort is the understanding of the structure of nuclear matter, both in the ground state and at finite temperature.The main audience addressed is the community of theoretical nuclear physicists, but nuclear experimentalists and astrophysicists will also find in the book an extensive amount of material of direct interest for their everyday work, particularly for those studying heavy-ion collisions, where the nuclear EOS is of special relevance. Finally, theoretical physicists working on elementary particle theory could find in the book some stimulating ideas and problems directly related to their field.

Table of Contents

  • The Brueckner-Bethe-Goldstone expansion, R. Sartor
  • variational methods, S. Fantoni
  • the Dirac-Brueckner approach, R. Brockmann
  • correlations in the nucleon propagation, W. Dickoff
  • Dirac-Brueckner approach for finite nuclei, H. Muether
  • long range correlations, T.T.S. Kuo
  • non-nucleonic degrees of freedom, L.S. Ferreira and M. Baldo
  • superfluidity, U. Lombardo
  • astrophysical applications, I. Bombaci
  • EOS at finite temperature, M. Baldo.

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