Models of the Atomic Nucleus: Unification Through a Lattice of Nucleons - Hardcover

Norman D. Cook

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1892925125 ISBN 13: 9781892925121

Publisher: Loose Cannon Press, 2019

Synopsis

Eugene Wigner discovered the quantum mechanical "symmetries" of the atomic nucleus in 1937 and won a Nobel Prize in Physics for that work in 1963. He explicitly stated that the mathematical symmetries are those of a face-centered-cubic crystalline lattice, but the 3D spatial structure was largely ignored as theorists developed many varities of the liquid-drop model, the gaseous-phase shell model and the molecule-like alpha cluster model. It turns out that Wigner's fcc lattice unifies the many mutually-contradictory models of nuclear structure theory. Both surprising and delightful, who would have guessed that nuclear properties can be reproduced within a solid-phase lattice? And, best of all, the lattice is held together by a realistic, short-range nucleus force. This book was written to understand the microreality that is the atomic nucleus. This new third edition, written shortly before the author's death in 2019, will guide the research of those who have a desire to understand one of the most complex objects in the material world.

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About the Author

Dr. Norman D. Cook, a retired Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Informatics at Kansai University (Osaka, Japan), passed away in June 2019, just months after finishing the third edition of his groundbreaking book Models of the Atomic Nucleus. He is the author of numerous other books and scienfitic papers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Loose Cannon Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1892925125
• ISBN 13: 9781892925121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 353