Basic Properties of the Atomic Nucleus
Abstract
In this chapter, four topics are treated. (1) Fundamental constituents and interactions of matter and the properties of nuclear forces (experimental facts and phenomenological and meson-field theoretical potentials). (2) Properties of nuclei (mass, binding energy, spin, moments, size, parity, isospin, and characteristic level schemes). (3) Nuclear states and excitations and individual and collective motion of the nucleons in the nuclei. Description of basic experimental facts and their interpretation in the framework of shell, collective, interacting boson, and cluster models. The recent developments, few nucleon systems, and ab initio calculations are also shortly discussed. (4) In the final section, the α- and β-decays, as well as the special decay modes observed far off the stability region are treated.
- Publication:
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Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry
- Pub Date:
- 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-1-4419-0720-2_2
- Bibcode:
- 2011honc.book...39F