The Physics of Warm Nuclei: With Analogies to Mesoscopic Systems

ISBN-13: 9780198504016 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 624 str.

Helmut Hofmann

Opis

This book offers a comprehensive survey of basic elements of nuclear dynamics at low energies and discusses similarities to mesoscopic systems. It addresses systems with finite excitations of their internal degrees of freedom, so that their collective motion exhibits features typical for transport processes in small and isolated systems. The importance of quantum aspects is examined with respect to both the microscopic damping mechanism and the nature of the transport equations. The latter must account for the fact that the collective motion is self-sustained. This implies highly nonlinear couplings between internal and collective degrees of freedom --- different to assumptions made in treatments known in the literature. A critical discussion of the use of thermal concepts is presented. The book can be considered self-contained. It presents existing models, theories and theoretical tools, both from nuclear physics and other fields, which are relevant to an understanding of the observed physical phenomena.

Recenzje

The book is considerably self-contained and presents existing models, theories and theoretical tools, from both nuclear physics and other fields, which are relevant to an understanding of the observed physical phenomena.

O autorze

Professor Dr. Helmut Hofmann (retired) Department of Physics Technical University of Munich Diploma (Universität Heidelberg, 1968) Dr. rer.nat. (Universität Heidelberg, 1971) Dr. rer.nat. habil. (Technische Universität München, 1979) Privatdozent (Technische Universität München, 1993) apl Professor (Technische Universität München, 2001)