附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-516) and index.
pt. A. Knowing the Nucleus: The Nuclear Constituents and Characteristics. 1. Nuclear global properties. 2. General nuclear radioactive decay properties and transmutations -- pt. B. Nuclear Interactions: Strong, Weak and Electromagnetic Forces. 3. General methods. 4. Alpha-decay: the strong interaction at work. 5. Beta-decay: the weak interaction at work. 6. Gamma decay: the electromagnetic interaction at work -- pt. C. Nuclear Structure: An Introduction. 7. The liquid drop model approach: a semi-empirical method. 8. The simplest independent particle model: the Fermi-gas model. 9. The nuclear shell model -- pt. D. Nuclear Structure: Recent Developments. 10. The nuclear mean-field: single-particle excitations and global nuclear properties. 11. The nuclear shell model: including the residual interactions. 12. Collective modes of motion. 13. Deformation in nuclei: shapes and rapid rotation. 14. Nuclear physics at the extremes of stability: weakly bound quantum systems and exotic nuclei. 15. Deep inside the nucleus: subnuclear degrees of freedom and beyond. 16. Outlook: the atomic nucleus as part of a larger structure -- A. Units and conversion between various unit systems -- B. Spherical tensor properties -- C. Second quantization -- an introduction.