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 PROBLEMTHE 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 DYNAMICSResonances in Heavy-Ion Systems -- Deep-Inelastic Collisions -- THE NUCLEAR MANY-BODY PROBLEM -- 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 DecayThe 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
