Nuclear and Particle Physics: The Changing Interface [Paperback]

Nuclear and Particle Physics both have been very distinctsubjects for decades, and are now developing more and moreinterfaces. Thus, hitherto typical methods of particlephysics are adopted by nuclear physics. The authors try tobuild bridges between both fields and give nuclearphysicists a thorough introduction from the fundamentals ofparticle physics to current research in this field.Contents:- Introduction- Preliminaries and Simple Models- Currents, Anomaly, Solitons, and Fractional Fermions- More on Chiral Symmetry- Introduction to Instantons- Relevance of Instantons- Chiral Perturbation Theory- The Topological and Non-Topological Soliton Model- QCD Sum Rules- References Nuclear and Particle Physics both have been very distinctsubjects for decades, and are now developing more and moreinterfaces. Thus, hitherto typical methods of particlephysics are adopted by nuclear physics. The authors try tobuild bridges between both fields and give nuclearphysicists a thorough introduction from the fundamentals ofparticle physics to current research in this field.Contents:- Introduction- Preliminaries and Simple Models- Currents, Anomaly, Solitons, and Fractional Fermions- More on Chiral Symmetry- Introduction to Instantons- Relevance of Instantons- Chiral Perturbation Theory- The Topological and Non-Topological Soliton Model- QCD Sum Rules- References1 Introduction.- 1.1 Quarks.- 1.2 Colour.- 1.3 Flavour.- 1.4 Quark Masses.- 1.5 Medium Effects on Quarks and Their Interactions.- 1.6 Phase Transition and Quark Gluon Plasma.- 2 Preliminaries and Simple Models.- 2.1 SU(2) and SU(3) Symmetry.- 2.2 The SU(3) Group.- 2.3 Non-Abelian Gauge Transformations.- 2.4 SU(3) Flavour Group.- 2.5 The SU(3) Colour and the Multi-Quark Wave Function.- 2.6 The Necessity of Relativistic Models.- 2.7 Fully Relativistic One-Body Potential Models.- 2.8 RlS"