Authors: John Dirk Walecka, Walecka John Dirk, T. Ericson
ISBN-13: 9780521018395, ISBN-10: 0521018390
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
John Dirk Walecka obtained his PhD in nuclear theory from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1958. He was Professor of Physics at Stanford University from 1966 to 1987 and then went on to become Scientific Director of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) from 1986 to
1992. He is now Governor's Distinguished CEBAF Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary. His research interests cover theoretical nuclear and sub-nuclear physics, in particular nuclear structure, the relativistic nuclear many-body problem, strong-coupling QCD, and electroweak interactions with nuclei. He has published numerous papers on nuclear physics, and in 1996 the American Physical Society recognized his work with the award of the Bonner Prize. He has lectured on electron scattering throughout the United States and Europe.
Covers motivation for theoretical analysis and present experimental capabilities of electron scattering, with pedagogical examples.
Preface | ||
Pt. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
1 | Motivation | 3 |
2 | Pictures of the nucleus | 6 |
3 | Some optics | 9 |
4 | Why electron scattering? | 14 |
5 | Target response surfaces | 19 |
6 | Why coincidence experiments? | 23 |
7 | Units and conventions | 26 |
Pt. 2 | General analysis | 29 |
8 | Electromagnetic interactions | 31 |
9 | Multipole analysis | 34 |
10 | Dirac equation | 45 |
11 | Covariant analysis | 51 |
12 | Excitation of discrete states in (e,e') | 63 |
13 | Coincidence experiments (e,e'X) | 76 |
14 | Deep-inelastic scattering from the nucleon | 95 |
15 | Polarization in deep-inelastic scattering | 110 |
16 | Parity violation in inclusive electron scattering | 115 |
Pt. 3 | Quantum electrodynamics | 127 |
17 | Basic elements | 129 |
18 | Radiative corrections | 139 |
Pt. 4 | Selected examples | 145 |
19 | Basic nuclear structure | 147 |
20 | Some applications | 157 |
21 | A relativistic model of the nucleus | 169 |
22 | Elastic scattering | 182 |
23 | Quasielastic scattering | 194 |
24 | The quark model | 210 |
25 | Quantum chromodynamics | 221 |
26 | The standard model | 231 |
27 | Parity violation | 247 |
28 | Excitation of nucleon resonances | 251 |
Pt. 5 | Future directions | 261 |
29 | TJNAF(CEBAF) | 263 |
30 | Other facilities | 272 |
31 | Future directions | 278 |
App. A | Long-wavelength reduction | 288 |
App. B | Center of mass (C-M) motion | 294 |
App. C | Weizsacker-Williams approximation | 300 |
App. D | Polarization and spin-1/2 fermions | 304 |
App. E | Symmetry properties of matrix elements | 308 |
App. F | Angular correlations | 312 |
App. G | Relativistic quasielastic scattering | 317 |
App. H | Pion electroproduction | 322 |
App. I | Light-cone variables | 331 |
References | 337 | |
Index | 352 |