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| Introduction | |
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| What is Nuclear Physics? | |
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| This Book | |
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| Hadrons | |
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| Nucleons | |
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| Nuclear Forces | |
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| Pions | |
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| Antiparticles | |
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| Inversion and Parity | |
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| Isospin and Baryonic Number | |
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| Isospin Invariance | |
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| Magnetic Moment of the Nucleons | |
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| Strangeness and Hypercharge | |
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| Quantum Chromodynamics | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Two-Nucleon System | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Electrostatic Multipoles | |
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| Magnetic Moment with Spin-orbit Coupling | |
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| Experimental Data for the Deuteron | |
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| A Square-well Model for the Deuteron | |
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| The Deuteron Wavefunction | |
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| Angular momentum coupling | |
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| Two particles of spin [fraction12] | |
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| Total wavefunction | |
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| Particles in the Continuum: Scattering | |
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| Partial Wave Expansion | |
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| Low Energy Scattering | |
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| Effective Range Theory | |
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| Proton-Proton Scattering | |
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| Neutron-Neutron Scattering | |
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| High Energy Scattering | |
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| Laboratory and Center of Mass Systems | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Phenomenological Potentials | |
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| Local Potentials | |
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| Nonlocal potential | |
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| Meson Exchange Potentials | |
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| Yukawa and Van der Waals potentials | |
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| Field theory picture | |
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| Short range part of the NN interaction | |
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| Chiral symmetry | |
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| Generalized boson exchange | |
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| Beyond boson exchange | |
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| Effective Field Theories | |
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| Exercises | |
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| General Properties of Nuclei | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Nuclear Radii | |
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| Binding Energies | |
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| Total Angular Momentum of the Nucleus | |
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| Multipole Moments | |
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| Magnetic Dipole Moment | |
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| Electric Quadrupole Moment | |
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| Excited States of Nuclei | |
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| Nuclear Stability | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Nuclear Models | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Liquid Drop Model | |
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| The Fermi Gas Model | |
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| The Shell Model | |
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| Residual Interaction | |
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| Nuclear Vibrations | |
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| Nuclear Deformation | |
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| The Nilsson Model | |
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| The Rotational Model | |
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| Microscopic Theories | |
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| Hartree-Fock theory | |
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| The Skyrme interaction | |
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| Relativistic mean field theory | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Radioactivity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Multiple Decays-Decay Chain | |
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| Preparation of a Radioactive Sample | |
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| Secular Equilibrium | |
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| Natural Radioactive Series | |
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| Radiation Units | |
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| Radioactive Dating | |
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| Properties of Unstable States-Level Width | |
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| Transition Probability-Golden Rule | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Alpha-Decay | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theory of [alpha]-Decay | |
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| Angular Momentum and Parity in [alpha]-Decay | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Beta-Decay | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Energy Released in [Beta]-Decay | |
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| Fermi Theory | |
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| The Decay Constant-The Log ft Value | |
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| Gamow-Teller Transitions | |
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| Selection Rules | |
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| Parity Nonconservation in [Beta]-Decay | |
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| Double [Beta]-Decay | |
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| Electron Capture | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Gamma-Decay | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Quantization of Electromagnetic Fields | |
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| Fields and gauge invariance | |
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| Normal modes | |
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| Photons | |
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| Interaction of Radiation with Matter | |
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| Radiation probability | |
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| Long wavelength approximation | |
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| Quantum and Classical Transition Rates | |
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| Selection Rules | |
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| Estimate of the Disintegration Constants | |
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| Isomeric States | |
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| Internal Conversion | |
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| Resonant Absorption-The Mossbauer Effect | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Nuclear Reactions-I | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Conservation Laws | |
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| Kinematics of Nuclear Reactions | |
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| Scattering and Reaction Cross Sections | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Compound Nucleus | |
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| Mean Free Path of a Nucleon in Nuclei | |
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| Empirical Optical Potential | |
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| Compound Nucleus Formation | |
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| Compound Nucleus Decay | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Nuclear Reactions-II | |
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| Direct Reactions | |
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| Theory of direct reactions | |
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| Validation of the Shell Model | |
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| Photonuclear Reactions | |
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| Cross sections | |
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| Sum rules | |
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| Giant resonances | |
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| Coulomb Excitation | |
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| Fission | |
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| Mass Distribution of Fission Fragments | |
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| Neutrons Emitted in Fission | |
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| Cross Sections for Fission | |
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| Energy Distribution in Fission | |
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| Isomeric Fission | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Nuclear Astrophysics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Astronomical Observations | |
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| The Milky Way | |
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| Dark matter | |
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| Luminosity and Hubble's law | |
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| The Big Bang | |
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| Stellar Evolution | |
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| Stars burn slowly | |
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| Gamow peak and astrophysical S-factor | |
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| The Sun | |
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| Deuterium formation | |
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| Deuterium burning | |
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| [superscript 3]He burning | |
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| Reactions involving [superscript 7]Be | |
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| The CNO Cycle | |
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| Hot CNO and rp process | |
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| Helium Burning | |
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| Red Giants | |
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| Advanced Burning Stages | |
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| Carbon burning | |
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| Neon burning | |
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| Oxygen burning | |
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| Silicon burning | |
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| Synthesis of Heaviest Elements | |
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| White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars | |
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| Supernova Explosions | |
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| Nuclear Reaction Models | |
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| Microscopic models | |
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| Potential and DWBA models | |
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| Parameter fit | |
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| Statistical models | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Rare Nuclear Isotopes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Light Exotic Nuclei | |
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| Halo nuclei | |
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| Bonomean nuclei | |
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| Superheavy Elements | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Angular Momentum | |
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| Orbital Momentum | |
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| Spherical Functions | |
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| Generation of Rotations | |
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| Orbital Rotations | |
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| Spin | |
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| Ladder Operators | |
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| Angular Momentum Multiplets | |
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| Multiplets as Irreducible Representations | |
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| SU(2) Group and Spin [fraction12] | |
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| Properties of Spherical Harmonics | |
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| Explicit derivation | |
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| Legendre polynomials | |
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| Completeness | |
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| Spherical functions as matrix elements of finite rotations | |
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| Addition theorem | |
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| Angular Momentum Coupling | |
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| Tensor Operators | |
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| Transformation of operators | |
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| Scalars and vectors | |
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| Tensors of rank 2 | |
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| Introduction to selection rules | |
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| Angular Momentum Coupling | |
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| Two subsystems | |
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| Decomposition of reducible representations | |
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| Tensor operators and section rules revisited | |
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| Vector coupling of angular momenta | |
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| Wigner-Eckart theorem | |
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| Vector Model | |
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| Symmetries | |
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| Time Reversal | |
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| Spin Transformation and Kramer's Theorem | |
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| Time-conjugate Orbits | |
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| Two-component Neutrino and Fundamental Symmetries | |
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| Charge Conjugation | |
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| Electric Dipole Moment | |
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| CPT-Invariance | |
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| Relativistic Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Lagrangians | |
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| Covariance | |
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| Electromagnetic Field | |
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| Relativistic Equations | |
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| Particle at rest | |
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| Covariant form: [gamma] matrices | |
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| Probability and Current | |
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| Wavefunction Transformation | |
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| Bilinear Covariants | |
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| Parity | |
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| Plane Waves | |
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| Summary of plane wave spinor properties | |
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| Projection operators | |
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| Plane Wave Expansion | |
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| Electromagnetic Interaction | |
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| Pauli Equation | |
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| Spin-orbit and Darwin terms | |
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| Useful Constants and Conversion Factors | |
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| Constants | |
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| Masses | |
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| Conversion Factors | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |