Simple Models of Complex Nuclei : The Shell Model and Interacting Boson Model Book

	Preface to the Series
	Preface
1	Introduction. Effective Interactions	1
2	Historical Survey	21
3	Single Particle in a Central Potential Well	33
4	Harmonic Oscillator Potential	45
5	Transformation under Rotations	55
6	Infinitesimal Rotations and Angular Momentum	71
7	Coupling of Angular Momenta. 3j-Symbols	91
8	The Wigner-Eckart Theorem	107
9	Two Nucleon Wave Functions. 9j-Symbols	121
10	Matrix Elements of Two Nucleon Interactions. 6j-Symbols	145
11	Short Range Potentials - The [delta]-Interaction	179
12	The Pairing Interaction and the Surface Delta Interaction	205
13	Two Nucleons in a Harmonic Oscillator Potential Well	229
14	Determinantal Many Nucleon Wave Functions	237
15	Nucleons in the Same Orbit. Coefficients of Fractional Parentage	261
16	Examples of Effective Interactions in Nuclei and Atoms	285
17	Second Quantization. Single Nucleon and Two-Body Operators	299
18	Two Nucleon Operators. Particle Hole Interactions	323
19	Nucleon Pairing and Seniority	349
20	Hamiltonians Which Are Diagonal in the Seniority Scheme	377
21	Examples of j[superscript n] Configurations in Nuclei	401
22	The Quasi-Spin Scheme	431
23	Generalized Seniority. Ground States of Semi-Magic Nuclei	447
24	Generalized Seniority. Other States of Semi-Magic Nuclei	473
25	Seniority and the Sp(2j + 1) Group	501
26	Seniority with Isospin. The U(2(2j + 1)) Group and Subgroups	521
27	Applications of Seniority with Isospin. Symmetry Energy	547
28	Seniority in l[superscript n] Configurations with T = n/2. The O(2l + 1) Group	575
29	LS-Coupling of Protons and Neutrons. The SU(4) Scheme	599
30	Special Proton Neutron Mixed Configurations. The SU(3) Scheme	621
31	Valence Protons and Neutrons in Different Orbits	645
32	Configuration Mixing. Effective Operators	681
33	The Interacting Boson Model (IBA-1)	731
34	The U(5) Scheme - The Vibrational Limit	751
35	The O(6) Limit. O(5) Symmetry	777
36	The SU(3) Dynamical Symmetry - Rotational Spectra	797
37	Mapping States of Identical Fermions onto Boson States	817
38	Valence Protons and Neutrons. The S-D Space	847
39	The Proton Neutron Interacting Boson Model (IBA-2)	867
40	Simple IBA-2 Hamiltonians. Some Applications	895
41	Particles Coupled to a Rotating Core	923
	Appendix	951
	Bibliography	1059
	Index	1067