"Version: 20220601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to the history of nuclear reactions and motivation for this book -- 1.1. Background -- 1.2. Nuclear atom -- 1.3. The first transmutation reaction -- 1.4. Discovery of neutron -- 1.5. Artificial radioactivity -- 1.6. Strong nuclear force -- 1.7. New isotopes -- 1.8. Discovery of fission -- 1.9. Self-sustain…
"Version: 20190101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Non-relativistic energy density functionals -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Energy density functional kernels -- 1.3. Pairing and Coulomb functionals2. Covariant energy density functionals -- 2.1. Relativistic description of quantum systems -- 2.2. Symmetry properties of QCD -- 2.3. Effective Lagrangians for nuclear syste…
"Version: 20151001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- About the author -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Rutherford and evidence for the nuclear atom -- 1.2. The first true nuclear reaction -- 1.3. The role of accelerators -- 1.4. Detection methods -- 1.5. The neutron and the correct composition of nuclei -- 1.6. Nuclear spectroscopy -- 1.7. Higher energies -- 1.8. Gener…