This book offers a comprehensive survey of basic elements of nuclear dynamics at low energies and discusses similarities to mesoscopic systems. It addresses systems with finite excitations of their internal degrees of freedom, so that their collective motion exhibits features typical for transport processes in small and isolated systems. The importance of quantum aspects is examined with respect to both the microscopic damping mechanism and the nature of the
transport equations. The latter must account for the fact that the collective motion is self-sustained. This implies highly nonlinear couplings between internal and collective degrees of freedom -- different to assumptions made in treatments known in the literature. A critical discussion of the use of
thermal concepts is presented. The book can be considered self-contained. It presents existing models, theories and theoretical tools, both from nuclear physics and other fields, which are relevant to an understanding of the observed physical phenomena.
- ISBN10 6612076089
- ISBN13 9786612076084
- Publish Date 17 April 2008 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 648
- Language English