The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner. part A, The scientific papers, volume II : Nuclear physics

Eugene Wigner was undoubtedly one of the pioneers of nuclear physics. He contributed to nuclear engineering (Volume 5 of his Collected Works) all the way to basic theoretical work. This volume collects his articles devoted to the latter. It has been edited by Arthur Wightman and Herman Feshbach who also wrote the annotation to Wigner's path-breaking scientific accomplishments in this field of modern physics. Wigner E.P.The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner Part A,The Scientific Papers,vol.II,Nuclear Physics(Springer,1996)(ISBN 3540569723)(600dpi) ......Page 4 Copyright ......Page 7 Editors’ Preface viii ......Page 8 Contents ix ......Page 9 Annotation by Herman Feshbach 1 ......Page 11 On the Mass Defect of Helium 15 ......Page 25 On the Scattering of Neutrons on Protons / Uber die Streuung von Neutronen an Protonen 21 ......Page 31 Note on Majorana’s Exchange Energy (with G. Breit) 27 ......Page 37 Capture of Slow Neutrons (with G. Breit) 29 ......Page 39 On the Saturation of Exchange Forces 42 ......Page 52 The Disintegration of Li8 (with G. Breit) 47 ......Page 57 On the Structure of the Nuclei Between Helium and Oxygen (with E. Feenberg) 48 ......Page 58 On the Consequences of the Symmetry of the Nuclear Hamiltonian on the Spectroscopy of Nuclei 60 ......Page 70 On the Structure of Nuclei Beyond Oxygen 74 ......Page 84 The b-Ray Spectrum of Li8 (with G. Breit) 86 ......Page 96 The Saturation Requirements for Nuclear Forces (with G. Breit) 87 ......Page 97 On the Saturation of Forces Derived from the Meson Theory (with L. Eisenbud) 93 ......Page 103 On Coupling Conditions in Light Nuclei and the Lifetimes of b-Radioactivities 94 ......Page 104 The Electron-Positron Field Theory of Nuclear Forces (with C.L. Critchfield and E. Teller) 103 ......Page 113 Magnetic Moments of Odd Nuclei (with H. Margenau) 113 ......Page 123 Nuclear Masses and Binding Energies 121 ......Page 131 Invariant Forms of Interaction Between Nuclear Particles (with L. Eisenbud) 133 ......Page 143 The Antisymmetrical Interaction in Beta-Decay Theory (with C.L. Critchfield) 142 ......Page 152 Symmetry Properties of Nuclear Levels (with E. Feenberg) 144 ......Page 154 Resonance Reactions and Anomalous Scattering 188 ......Page 198 Reaction and Scattering Cross-Sections 207 ......Page 217 Resonance Reactions 212 ......Page 222 Higher Angular Momenta and Long Range Interaction in Resonance Reactions (with L. Eisenbud) 225 ......Page 235 On the Behavior of Cross Sections Near Thresholds 238 ......Page 248 Nuclear Reactions and Level Widths 246 ......Page 256 On the Statistical Distribution of the Widths and Spacings of Nuclear Resonance Levels 257 ......Page 267 Sum Rules in the Dispersion Theory of Nuclear Reactions (with T. Teichmann) 266 ......Page 276 On the Shell Model for Nuclei 279 ......Page 289 Note on the Beta-Decay 296 ......Page 306 A b-Decay Matrix Element for a Deformed Core Model (with M.G. Redlich) 301 ......Page 311 On the Origin and the Effects of Spin-Orbit Coupling in Nuclei 306 ......Page 316 The Interpretation of Racah’s Coefficients 315 ......Page 325 Giant Resonance Interpretation of the Nucleon-Nucleus Interaction (with A.M. Lane and R.G. Thomas) 316 ......Page 326 Results and Theory of Resonance Absorption 325 ......Page 335 Distribution of Neutron Resonance Level Spacing 337 ......Page 347 On the Distribution of the Roots of Certain Symmetric Matrices 339 ......Page 349 Isotopic Spin - A Quantum Number for Nuclei 342 ......Page 352 Statistical Properties of Real Symmetric Matrices with Many Dimensions 367 ......Page 377 Approximation Method in Collision Theory Based on R-Matrix Theory (with C.B. Duke) 378 ......Page 388 Causality, ii-Matrix, and Collision Matrix 384 ......Page 394 Distribution Laws for the Roots of a Random Hermitean Matrix 412 ......Page 422 Remarks 428 ......Page 438 Random Matrices in Physics 433 ......Page 443 General Principles of Nuclear Structure (with L. Eisenbud and G.T. Garvey) 456 ......Page 466 Some General Consequences of the Short-Range Nature of Nuclear Forces 517 ......Page 527 Extension of the ii-Matrix Theory (with F. Narcowich) 566 ......Page 576 Papers Reprinted in Volume II 567 ......Page 577 Related Papers Reprinted in Other Volumes of The Collected Works 571 ......Page 581 Related Papers Not Reprinted in The Collected Works 573 ......Page 583 cover......Page 1 Eugene Paul Wigner (Jenö Pál Wigner) was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 17 November 1902.