Halo nuclei / Jim Al-Khalili.

Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές.

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 studies

2. 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 structure

3. 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 models

4. 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 reactions

5. 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.