Hans Bethe: The Nuclear Many Body Problem
Nuclear Theory
2016-11-23 v2
Abstract
We discuss the work of Hans Bethe and others in formulating a theoretical foundation for the nuclear shell model. Written for a general audience, this article describes the evolution from Brueckner's reaction matrix theory to the Moszkowski-Scott separation method and ultimately to the Reference Spectrum method of Bethe, Brandow, and Petschek. We also discuss connections with the recently developed low momentum nucleon-nucleon interactions.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0509016,
title = {Hans Bethe: The Nuclear Many Body Problem},
author = {Jeremy W. Holt and Gerald Brown},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0509016},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
25 pages, 15 figures, In "Hans Bethe and His Physics" (World Scientific, Singapore, 2006)