Contemporary Nuclear Shell Models: Proceedings of an International Workshop Held in Philadelphia, Pa, Usa, 29-30 April 1996 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

This Volume Reports Recent Development In Nuclear Structure Physics And Closely Related Topics. Particularly, It Centers On New Methodologies And Recent Applications Of The Nuclear Shell Model Such As Quantum Monte Carlo Methods, Large-scale Shell Model Calculations And Microscopic Theories Of Effective Interactions. Each Review Focuses On One Fundamental Topic Closely Related To The Nuclear Shell Model. Each Topic Is Covered In Sufficient Depth And Detail To Be Accessible To A Wide Audience Including Nuclear Engineers And Astrophysicists And Those Working In Various Fields Of Scientific Computing And Modelling. From The Contents: Nucleon-nucleon Interactions -- Microscopic Theories Of Effective Interaction With An Application To Halo Nuclei -- Large No-core Basis-space Shell Model Calculations For Light Nuclei -- Order And Disorder In The Nuclear Shell Model -- Large-scale Shell Model Calculations: The Physics In And The Physics Out -- Realistic Shell-model Calculations For Sn Isotopes -- Shell Model Monte Carlo Methods -- Quantum Monte Carlo Diagonalization Method -- Shell-model Applications In Nuclear Astrophysics -- Continuum Shell Model Calculations For Photonuclear Reactions -- Kerman-klein Method: Accomplishments And Opportunities -- Solving The Nuclear Shell Model With An Algebraic Method -- Challenges To Microscopic Theories Of Nuclear Structure -- Projected Shell Model -- Relativistic Mean Field Theory And Applications In Finite Nuclei -- Some Thoughts On The Nuclear Shell Model. Xing-wang Pan, Da Hsuan Feng, Michel Vallières (eds.). The International Workshop On Contemporary Nuclear Shell Models, Held In Philadelphia On April 29-30, 1996--pref. Includes Bibliographical References. Nucleon-nucleon interactions....Pages 1-24 Microscopic theories of effective interaction with an application to halo nuclei....Pages 25-46 Large no-core basis-space shell model calculations for light nuclei....Pages 47-67 Order and disorder in the nuclear shell model....Pages 68-92 Large scale shell model calculations: The physics in and the physics out....Pages 93-121 Realistic shell-model calculations for Sn isotopes....Pages 122-131 Shell model monte carlo methods....Pages 132-132 Shell model for large systems and quantum monte carlo diagonalization method....Pages 133-154 Shell-model applications in nuclear astrophysics....Pages 155-171 Large scale continuum shell model calculations for photonuclear reactions with Δ isobars and exchange currents....Pages 172-200 Kerman-Klein method for nuclear structure: Accomplishments and opportunities....Pages 201-230 Solving the nuclear shell model with an algebraic method....Pages 231-253 Challenges to microscopic theories of nuclear structure....Pages 254-264 Projected shell model....Pages 265-273 Relativistic mean field theory and applications in finite nuclei....Pages 274-288 Some thoughts on the nuclear shell model....Pages 289-291 Conventional shell model: Some issues....Pages 292-309 This volume reports recent developments in nuclear structure physics and closely related topics. Particularly, it centers on methodologies and recent applications of the nuclear shell model such as quantum Monte Carlo methods and large-scale shell model calculations.