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Nuclear Physics (Physics Through the 1990s: A Series): Nuclear Physics Panel, Physics Survey Committee, Board on Physics and Astronomy
National Academies Press | ISBN: 0309035473 | 1986-01-01 | PDF / djvu (ocr) | 240 pages | 7.77 / 4.32 Mb

This volume is the report of the Panel on Nuclear Physics of the Physics Survey Committee, established by the National Research Council in 1983. The report presents many of the major advances in nuclear physics during the past decade, sketches the impacts of nuclear physics on other sciences and on society, and describes the current frontiers of the field. It concludes with a chapter on the recommended priorities for this discipline.

NUCLEAR PHYSICS TODAY
Nuclear physics deals with the properties of atomic nuclei, their structure and interactions, and the laws governing the forces between their constituents. The interactions in nuclei have their roots in the interactions of elementary particles, the quarks and gluons that together constitute nuclear matter. But additional dynamical forces, long known to exist in nuclei, cannot be understood with elementary particles alone, just as new cooperative interactions, not recognizable in nuclei or atoms, are known to exist in macroscopic materials.

The basic questions facing nuclear physics today span a broad range, including strong and electroweak interactions, and cover the properties of the physical world from the microscopic scale of nuclear forces to the large-scale structure of the universe. Nuclear physics deals with many-body aspects of the strong interaction. It also deals with tests of fundamental theories and symmetries. Furthermore, nuclear physics plays an important role in the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. Our understanding of nuclear structure and nuclear dynamics continues to evolve. New simple modes of excitation have emerged, new symmetries are appearing, and some completely new phenomena are being discovered.


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