A Study of the Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonance
A Study of the Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonance: The Role of Symmetry Energy in Nuclear Incompressibility in the Open-Shell Nuclei
Springer | Particle and Nuclear Physics | January 25, 2016 | ISBN-10: 3319222066 | 102 pages | pdf | 5.43 mb
Springer | Particle and Nuclear Physics | January 25, 2016 | ISBN-10: 3319222066 | 102 pages | pdf | 5.43 mb
Authors: Patel, Darshana Chandrakant
Nominated as an outstanding PhD Thesis by the University of Notre Dame
Reports on investigations of a specific collective mode of nuclear vibration, the isoscalar giant monopole resonance
Presents results of experiments critical to answering some fundamental questions about nuclear incompressibility and the symmetry energy
This thesis reports on investigations of a specific collective mode of nuclear vibration, the isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR), the nuclear "breathing mode", the energy of which is directly related to a fundamental property of nuclei—the nuclear incompressibility. The alpha inelastic scattering experiments reported in this thesis have been critical to answering some fundamental questions about nuclear incompressibility and the symmetry energy, quantities that are crucial to our understanding of a number of phenomena in nuclear physics and astrophysics, including collective excitations in nuclei, radii of neutron stars, and the nature of stellar collapse and supernova explosions. The work described included three sets of experiments and subsequent sophisticated data analysis, both leading to results that have been welcomed by the community and recognised as important contributions to the field.
Number of Illustrations and Tables
42 illus., 9 in colour
Topics
Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons
Astrophysics and Astroparticles
Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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