The Nuclear Many-Body Problem 2001, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002 NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Series, Vol. 53

An expert and illuminating review of the leading models of nuclear structure: effective field theories based on quantum chromodynamics; ab initio models based on Monte Carlo methods employing effective nucleon-nucleon interactions; diagonalization and the Monto Carlo shell model; non-relativistic and relativistic mean-field theory and its extensions; and symmetry-dictated approaches. Theoretical advances in major areas of nuclear structure are discussed: nuclei far from stability and radioactive ion beams; gamma ray spectroscopy; nuclear astrophysics and electroweak interactions in nuclei; electron scattering; nuclear superconductivity; superheavy elements. The interdisciplinary aspects of the many-body problem are also discussed. Recent experimental data are examined in light of state-of-the-art calculations. 
Recent advances in several broad areas of theoretical structure are covered, making the book ideal as a supplementary textbook.

Role of Chiral Symmetry in the Nuclear Many-Body Problem.- Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of p-shell Nuclei.- Electron Scattering and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem.- Relativistic Effects in Quasielastic Electron Scattering.- Effective Interactions for Finite Nuclei.- Magic Numbers in Exotic Nuclei and Spin-Isospin Properties of NN Interaction.- Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for the Nuclear Many Body Problem at Finite Temperature.- Quadrupole Collective States in the Monte-Carlo Shell Model.- Variational Approach to Medium Mass N=Z Nuclei.- Description of Exotic Nuclei using Continuum Shell Model.- Relativistic Field Theories and the Microscopic Description of the Nuclear System.- Relativistic Mean Field Approach with Density and Momentum Dependent Coupling Vertices.- Effects of New Couplings from Relativistic Effective Field Theory Models.- Rotating Nuclei in the Relativistic Mean Field Theory: Microscopic nature of nuclear magnetism.- Nuclear Fission Described in the Framework of the Relativistic Mean Field Theory: The Strutinsky type approach.- Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry in Nuclei.- Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry and the Structure of Nuclear States.- The Pseudospin Symmetry in Finite Nuclei: Dirac Phenomenology.- Microscopic Description of Heavy Deformed Nuclei.- Electromagnetic Transition Strengths in 104Cd and 101Ag and their Interpretation within the Interacting Boson (Fermion) plus Broken Pair Model.- Investigation of Properties of Mixed Symmetry States in 94Mo and 96Ru.- Sources of Pairing in Nuclei.- Relativistic Theory of Pairing in Finite Nuclei.- Pairing Properties in Relativistic Mean Field Models Based on Effective Field Theory.- Contact Pairing Interaction for the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Calculations.- Size Dependence of Pairing in Finite Fermi Systems.- Pairing Correlations along the Fission Path.- Multi-Phonon States in Spherical Nuclei.- Collective Properties of the Low Energy Dipole Response in the Relativistic RPA.- Extensions of the Perturbed SPA: Decay Rates of Damped Systems and Improvement for Small Temperatures.- High-Spin Structure of Neutron-rich Dy Isotopes.- The Challenges of Understanding Exotic Nuclei.- Quadrupole Collectivity in Theories Beyond Mean Field with Effective Forces.- Mean-field Treatment of Isobaric Excitations in N=Z Nuclei. Search for the Isoscalar Pairing Collectivity.- Particle-Unstable Nuclei: Mean-Field Description.- Proton Emission from Gamow Resonance.- Nucleon Distributions in Loosely Bound Nuclei.- Alpha Cluster Condensation in Threshold States of Self-conjugate 4n Nuclei.- Superheavy Elements -Discoveries and Challenges.- Towards the Structure of the Heaviest Nuclei.- A Liquid Drop Model (LDM) for Nuclear Semi-Bubbles or, more generally Systems Consisting of Domains with Different Constant Density.- Synthesis of Superheavy Elements.- Recent Investigations of Superheavy Elements.- Weak-Interaction Processes in Nuclear Astrophysics.- Hartree-Fock-BCS Calculations of Beta-decay Half-lives.- Neutrino Propagation in Neutron Matter and the Nuclear Equation of State.- Properties of Nuclei in the Neutron Star Crust.- Shell Model with Random Interactions.- Kohn-Sham Approximation with Finite Range Forces.- Thermal Phase Transitions in Finite Quantum Systems.- Fractality for the Nuclear Line of Stability, Atomic Weights and Molecular Weights.