Statistical multifragmentation of nuclei: (I). Formulation of the model

A statistical formulation of the multifragmentation of finite nuclei is given. The approach considers the generalization of the liquid-drop model for hot nuclei and allows one to calculate thermodynamic quantities characterizing the nuclear ensemble at the disassembly stage. It is shown how to determine probabilities of definite partitions of finite nuclei and how to apply a Monte Carlo method. The importance of including finite-size effects is shown by comparison with infinite-like systems.     

Evolution of nuclear spectra with nuclear forces

We first define a series of NN interaction models ranging from very simple to fully realistic. We then present Green's function Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei to show how nuclear spectra evolve as the nuclear forces are made increasingly sophisticated. We find that the absence of stable five- and eight-body nuclei depends crucially on the spin, isospin, and tensor components of the nuclear force.     

Nuclear Physics Programs for the Future RIBs Facility in Korea

We present nuclear physics programs based on the planned experiments using rare isotope beams (RIBs) for the future Korean Rare Isotope Beams Accelerator facility(KRIA). This ambitious facility has both an Isotope Separation On Line (ISOL) and fragmentation capability for producing RIBs and accelerating beams of wide range mass of nuclides with energies of a few to hundreds MeV per nucleon. Low energy RIBs at Elab = 5 to 20 MeV per nucleon are for the study of nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics toward and beyond the drip lines while higher energy RIBs produced by inflight fragmentation with the reaccelerated ions from the ISOL enable to explore the neutron drip lines in intermediate mass regions. The planned programs have goals for investigating internal structures of the exotic nuclei toward and beyond the nucleon drip lines by addressing the following issues: how the shell structure evolves in areas of extreme proton to neutron imbalance; whether the isospin symmetry maintains in isobaric mirror nuclei at and beyond the drip lines; how two-proton radioactivity affects abundances of the elements; what the role of the continuum states including resonant states above protondecay threshold in exotic nuclei is in astrophysical nuclear reaction processes, and how the nuclear reaction rates triggered by unbound proton-rich nuclei make an effect on rapid proton capture processes in a very hot stellar plasma.     

Neutral current effects in nuclei

We review the effects of weak neutral currents is nuclei and show how different nuclear processes can sensitively test gauge theory models of the weak and electromagnetic interactions. Our attention is focused principally on neutral current neutrino interactions in nuclei, although one chapter of our review is devoted to weak neutral current effects in polarized electron scattering off nuclei.     

Prospects for using the (e,e′γ) reaction to explore nuclear structure

The (e, e′γ) coincidence reaction is considered in detail. The formalism is developed in a way which emphasizes the connection between this reaction and studies of the scattering of (possibly polarized) electrons from polarized nuclei. A wide variety of examples is given to demonstrate the usefulness of the (e, e′γ) reaction for nuclear structure studies and to demonstrate how this reaction serves as both a complement and a supplement to electron scattering from polarized nuclei. Finally, a few cases of special interest are discussed.     

核物理中的π介子

在强子层次上,原子核或强子物质的基本组元是核子和介子.弄清这些强子的结构,并由基本原理出发研究它们的性质,是当代核物理的重要课题.在各种介子中,π介子是最轻且最重要的介子.关于自由空间中π介子的结构与性质、核介质内π介子的性质、π 核子相互作用与π 核相互作用等问题,始终受到相当多的关注.π介子在核物理中的作用直接联系着手征对称性,汤川秀树关于π介子的最初概念已经大大发展了.有清楚的实验证据表明,核内存在π介子的集体模式,这种集体模式与以前观测到的所有核集体运动模式截然不同.拟对π 核物理的研究现状及值得进一步研究的主要问题予以简要评述. At the hadronic level, nucleons and mesons are constituents of nuclei and hadronic matter. Understanding the structures of hadrons, finding the physics of how the properties of these particles arise from the first principle, are major interests in modern nuclear physics. Among mesons, the lightest and most important one is certainly the pion, thus it is no accident that its structure, properties (both in free space and in nuclear matter) and interactions with nucleons and nuclei have gotten considerable ...     

On the shell model and its application to the deformation energy of heavy nuclei

The technical realisation of the shell model with arbitrary fields is presented in detail, with special emphasis of the unusual and large deformations of the nuclear shape as they may occur in the fission process. We discuss how realistic parametrisations of the nuclear shape and the potential well can be developed and how the parameters of the average fields can be determined. We restrict ourselves to wells with a Woods-Saxon distribution in the radial coordinate. By means of Strutinsky's shell correction approach, the single particle energies deserve to calculate the potential part of a collective Hamiltonian. Its behaviour with varying deformation is discussed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Considered are the deformation types of elongation (1), necking (2), reflection (3) and axial (4) asymmetry of the nuclear shape. Evidence is given for geometrical symmetries which can be correlated to normal modes in finite nuclei. The transition from spherical to deformed nuclei is presented in detail for the radium isotopes, revealing the importance of hexadecapole deformations. Finally, we give an extensive and systematic presentation of the energies and of the deformations at the various stationary points of the deformation energy for the nuclei in the actinide region and for the hypothetical superheavy nuclei.     

Reaction mechanisms for light halo nuclei

Current nuclear physics focuses on exploring nucleon matter under extreme conditions, such as those that can be created in modern accelerator laboratories. On the neutron-rich side of stability, radioactive beams have already led to the discovery of halos in nuclei with neutron distributions extending to large distances. Halo nuclei are composite systems with prominent features of few-body correlations, which reveal themselves in various reactions involving these systems. We will discuss experiments that probe a halo structure through studying various reactions involving halo nuclei, with special emphasis on how, from the theoretical point of view, such reactions contribute to our knowledge of the structure and dynamics of the nuclear halo.     

Science with radioactive beams: The alchemist's dream

Nuclear science is being transformed by a new capacity to create beams of radioactive nuclei. Until now all of our knowledge of nuclear physics and the applications which flow from it has been derived from studies of radioactive decay and nuclear reactions induced by beams of the 283 stable or long-lived nuclear species we can find on Earth. Here we describe first how beams of radioactive nuclei can be created. The present status of nuclear physics is then reviewed before potential applications to nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, materials science, bio-medical, and environmental studies are described.     

Nuclear pairing: New perspectives

Nuclear pairing correlations are known to play an important role in various single-particle and collective aspects of nuclear structure. After the first idea by A. Bohr, B. Mottelson, and D. Pines on similarity of nuclear pairing to electron superconductivity, S.T. Belyaev gave a thorough analysis of the manifestations of pairing in complex nuclei. The current revival of interest in nuclear pairing is connected to the shift of modern nuclear physics towards nuclei far from stability; many loosely bound nuclei are particle-stable only due to the pairing. The theoretical methods borrowed from macroscopic superconductivity turn out to be insufficient for finite systems such as nuclei, in particular, for the cases of weak pairing and proximity of continuum states. We suggest a simple numerical procedure of exact solution of the nuclear pairing problem and discuss the physical features of this complete solution. We show also how the continuum states can be naturally included in the consideration bridging the gap between the structure and reactions. The path from coherent pairing to chaos and thermalization and perspectives of new theoretical approaches based on the full solution of pairing are discussed.     

Interacting boson model of collective nuclear states III. The transition from SU(5) to SU(3)

We study the transition from the vibrational, SU(5), to the rotational, SU(3), limit of the interacting boson model. We show how this model can be used to calculate energies, electromagnetic transitions, multipole moments, nuclear radii, and two-nucleon transfer intensities in transitional nuclei.     

美国连续束电子加速器的能量升级到12GeV的科学与实验设备

驱动美国托马斯杰斐逊国家加速器装置(Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility,简称JLab)的能量升级到12GeV的科学是研究胶子激发和色禁闭的起因,研究原子核的构件核子是如何由夸克和胶子构成的,研究原子核的结构及寻找新物理等的一门科学.实验设备是12GeV的加速器、各种超导磁谱仪及极化靶等.在能量为12GeV的加速器中,将采用深度遍举过程和极化实验.     

UNITARY THEORY OF BARYON-SYSTEM

In this paper, how to extend the baryon unitary theory to the baryon system is systematically introduced. Using baryon-system SU(6) theory, the spectroscopy of light nuclei and light nuclei and light Λ hypernuclei is discussed. When the Λ degree of freedom is frozem, this theory is in agreement with Wigner's supermultiplet theory.     

Characterization of crystal growth using a spiral nucleation model

Classical concepts of two-dimensional nucleation and spiral growth are used together with recent findings on the dynamics of dislocation spirals to derive a new crystal growth model. Initial growth nuclei result from the organization of adsorbed molecules in spirals around surface dislocations. The energetic barrier for the activation of the spiral nuclei is considerably lower than the admitted by classical two dimensional nucleation models. Stable nuclei evolve into bigger growth hillocks in supersaturated media through the incorporation of adsorbed units into their steps. The displacement velocity of steps during solution and vapour growth is calculated by different kinetic approaches, taking into consideration the distinct role of surface diffusion in each process, and avoiding known limitations of conventional theories. A generalized expression is obtained relating the crystal growth rate with main variables such as supersaturation, temperature, crystal size, surface topology and interfacial properties. At the end of the paper, the crystallization kinetics of sucrose measured at 40 °C is interpreted in the light of the new perspectives resulting from the proposed model. The application example illustrates how to estimate interfacial and topological properties from the experimental crystal growth results.     

Quantum Monte Carlo studies of bound and unbound states

Over the last fifteen years, there has been tremendous progress in understanding how nuclear structure arises from the nucleon-nucleon interaction. I describe the contribution to this progress made by quantum Monte Carlo computational methods, as well as directions to be taken in future work. Most effort in the past has concentrated on energy spectra, and we have had good success in computing the spectra of systems with A≤12. We are now shifting our attention to off-diagonal and scattering/reaction properties of the light nuclei. I also discuss briefly the relation of quantum Monte Carlo methods to other ab initio methods and their particular relevance for weakly-bound nuclei produced at radioactive-beam facilities.     

Quantum flow and nuclear rotation

It is shown that some insight in how light nuclei rotate can be gained by looking at the flow lines of the quantum mechanical probability.     

Homogeneous bulk, surface, and edge nucleation in crystalline nanodroplets

The birth of a crystal is initiated by a nucleus from which the crystal grows--a dust grain in a snowflake is a familiar example. These nuclei can be heterogeneous defects, like the dust grain, or homogeneous nuclei which are intrinsic to the material. Here we study homogeneous nucleation in nanoscale polymer droplets on a substrate which itself can be crystalline or amorphous. We observe a large difference in the nucleating ability of the substrate. Furthermore, the scaling dependence of nucleation on the size of the droplets proves that the birth of the crystalline state can be directed to originate predominantly within the bulk, at the substrate surface, or at the droplets' edge, depending on how we tune the substrate.