Halo nuclei /

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"Version: 20171001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is a halo? -- 1.2. Examples of halo nuclei -- 1.3. Experimental evidence for halos -- 1.4. The three phases of halo studies2. The structure of halo nuclei -- 2.1. One-neutron halos -- 2.2. Three-body systems--the Borromeans -- 2.3. Microscopic models -- 2.4. Are there multi-neutron halos? -- 2.5. Changes to shell structure3. Reaction models to study halo nuclei -- 3.1. Few-body model space -- 3.2. The Glauber model -- 3.3. Cross sections in Glauber theory -- 3.4. The binary cluster model -- 3.5. More general few-body reaction models -- 3.6. The CDCC method -- 3.7. The adiabatic model -- 3.8. Other models4. Reaction studies of halos -- 4.1. Experimental considerations -- 4.2. First generation experiments -- 4.3. Reaction cross sections and halo sizes -- 4.4. Elastic and inelastic scattering -- 4.5. Breakup reactions -- 4.6. Knockout reactions -- 4.7. Transfer reactions -- 4.8. Fusion -- 4.9. Charge exchange and photonuclear reactions5. Future Perspectives -- 5.1. Current interests in modelling halo nuclei -- 5.2. Ten future research directions -- 5.3. New physics with electron beams.While neutron halos were discovered 30 years ago, this is the first book written on the subject of this exotic form of nuclei that typically contain many more neutrons than stable isotopes of those elements. It provides an introductory description of the halo and outlines the discovery and evidence for its existence. It also discusses different theoretical models of the halo's structure as well as models and techniques in reaction theory that have allowed us to study the halo. This is written at the graduate student (starting at PhD) level.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Jim Al-Khalili OBE is a professor of theoretical nuclear physics at the University of Surrey where he currently teaches and conducts research. He received his PhD in nuclear reaction theory in 1989 from Surrey before working as an SERC Postdoctoral Fellow at UCL. He returned to Surrey and was awarded a five year EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship in 1994 before being appointed as a permanent member of staff in 1999. He was promoted to a dual chair in both physics and in public engagement in 2005. Despite his profile as a public scientist, as an author and broadcaster, Jim continues to teach undergraduate physics and carry out research. He has published over one hundred papers in nuclear reaction physics, quantum mechanics and quantum biology. He is a recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday medal, the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal and the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication.Title from PDF title page (viewed on November 18, 2017).

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