The Physics of Warm Nuclei

Professor Dr. Helmut Hofmann (retired) Department of Physics Technical University of MunichDiploma (Universität Heidelberg, 1968) Dr. rer.nat. (Universität Heidelberg, 1971) Dr. rer.nat. habil. (Technische Universität München, 1979) Privatdozent (Technische Universität München, 1993) apl Professor (Technische Universität München, 2001)

The book is considerably self-contained and presents existing models, theories and theoretical tools, from both nuclear physics and other fields, which are relevant to an understanding of the observed physical phenomena.

• I BASIC ELEMENTS AND MODELS ; 1. Elementary concepts of nuclear physics ; 2. Nuclear matter as a Fermi liquid ; 3. Independent particles and quasi-particles in finite nuclei ; 4. From the shell model to the compound nucleus ; 5. Shell effects and Strutinsky renormalization ; 6. Average collective motion of small amplitude ; 7. Transport theory of nuclear collective motion ; II COMPLEX NUCLEAR SYSTEMS ; 8. The statistical model for the decay of excited nuclei ; 9. Pre-equilibrium reactions ; 10. Level densities and nuclear thermometry ; 11. Collective motion of large scale at finite thermal excitations ; 12. Dynamics of fission at finite temperature ; 13. Heavy ion collisions at low energies ; 14. Giant dipole excitations ; III MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS ; 15. Metals and quantum wires ; 16. Metal clusters ; 17. Energy transfer to a system of independent Fermions ; IV THEORETICAL TOOLS ; 18. Elements of reaction theory ; 19. Density operators and Wigner functions ; 20. The Hartree-Fock method ; 21. Transport equations for the one-body density ; 22. Nuclear thermostatics ; 23. Linear response theory ; 24. Functional integrals ; 25. Properties of Langevin- and Fokker-Planck equations ; V AUXILIARY INFORMATION ; 26. Formal means ; 27. Natural units in nuclear physics ; References