Preface , Fundamental Properties of Nuclei , The Constituents of Nuclei , Internucleon Forces: I , Nuclear Moments and Nuclear Shapes , Sizes of Nuclei , Internucleon Forces: II , Nuclear Binding Energies , Nuclear Models , Single-Particle Model , Correlations in Nuclear Matter , Collective Nuclear Motion , Hartree-Fock and Particle-Hole Calculations , Alpha Disintegration and Fission of Nuclei , Alpha Radioactivity , Fission , Angular Momentum, Spherical Tensors, and Dirac Matrices , Some Results Used in Scattering Theory , The Notation of Second Quantization , The WKB Approximation , Electromagnetic Transitions

A graduate-level one-volume textbook and reference work on the structure and physics of atomic nuclei. Throughout this book the underlying emphasis is on how a nucleus is constituted through the interaction between the nucleons. The book is structured into three parts: the first part contains a detailed treatment of the two-nucleon force and of basic model-independent nuclear properties; the second part discusses the experimental results of nuclear models and their bases in fundamental theory; the third part deals in some detail with alpha-decay and fission.