English

From the liquid drop model to lattice QCD

Nuclear Theory 2018-11-12 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The present article aims to give a concise account of the main developments in nuclear structure theory, from its origin in the 1930s to date, taking the modelling of inter-nucleon interactions as guideline.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1811.03978,
  title  = {From the liquid drop model to lattice QCD},
  author = {V. Somà},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03978},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

18 pages, 25 figures, contribution to Focus Point on "Rewriting Nuclear Physics Textbooks: Basic Nuclear Interactions and Their Link to Nuclear Processes in the Cosmos and on Earth"

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