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Lecture Notes in Nuclear Structure Physics

Lecture Notes in Nuclear Structure Physics

Lecture Notes in Nuclear Structure Physics

This book covers the following topics: Nuclear masses, Rms charge radii, Charge densities and form factors, Overview of nuclear decays, The Fermi gas model, Overview of the nuclear shell model, The one body potential, Woods-Saxon potential, Many Body Wavefunctions, Two-Body Hamiltonian, Configuration mixing, One body transition operators and the OBTD, Electromagnetic transitions and allowed beta decay.

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