A well-designed introduction to experimental and theoretical nuclear physics that will help graduate students and researchers alike bridge the gap between what is known about nucleon-meson nuclear physics and what will be learned from future research in quark-lepton nuclear physics. The book describes nuclear physics in terms of hadron-meson dynamics and then in terms of quark-lepton dynamics. Chapters cover such topics as elastic and inelastic scattering; spin-isospin responses and charge exchange reactions; giant resonances; nuclear clusters; and nuclear physics with strange flavor.
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