Advances in Nuclear Physics

1 Chiral Symmetry and the BAG Model: A New Starting Point for Nuclear Physics.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Basic Bag Model.- 2.1. The MIT Bag Model.- 2.2. The Spectroscopy of Low-Lying States.- 2.3. Attempts to Derive a Bag Model.- 2.4. Relationship to Nonrelativistic Quark Models.- 3. Hadronic Properties in the MIT Bag Model.- 3.1. Charge Radii.- 3.2. Magnetic Moments.- 3.3. The Axial Current.- 3.4. Center of Mass Corrections.- 4. Chiral Symmetry.- 4.1. Lagrangian Formulation of the MIT Bag Model.- 4.2. Conserved Currents in Lagrangian Field Theory.- 4.3. The Axial Current.- 4.4. The ?-Model and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.- 5. Bag Models with Chiral Symmetry.- 5.1. Motivation.- 5.2. Chodos and Thorn.- 5.3. Further Developments.- 5.4. The Cloudy Bag Model.- 6. Applications of the Cloudy Bag Model.- 6.1. A Hamiltonian for Low-and Medium-Energy Physics.- 6.2. The Nucleon.- 6.3. Pion-Nucleon Scattering.- 6.4. Magnetic Moments of the Nucleon Octet.- 6.5. Summary.- 7. Towards a New View of Nuclear Physics.- 7.1. The Nucleon-Nucleon Force.- 7.2. Symmetry Breaking as a Clue.- 7.3. The Nuclear Many-Body Problem.- 8. Conclusion.- Acknowledgements.- Appendix I.- References.- 2 The Interacting Boson Model.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Interacting Boson Model-1.- 2.1. The Model.- 2.2. Analytic Solutions.- 2.3. Transitional Classes.- 2.4. Extensions of the Model.- 3. Geometric Properties of the Interacting Boson Model-1.- 3.1. Coherent States.- 3.2. Transitional Classes and Shape-Phase Transitions.- 4. The Interacting Boson Model-2.- 4.1. The Model.- 4.2. Energy Levels.- 4.3. Electromagnetic Transition Rates.- 4.4. Other Properties.- 4.5. Extensions of the Model.- 5. Microscopic Description of Interacting Bosons.- 5.1. Generalized Seniority.- 5.2. The Single j-Shell.- 5.3. Several j-Shells.- 5.4. The Ginocchio Model.- 6. Conclusions.- Acknowledgements.- References.- 3 High-Energy Nuclear Collisions.- 1. Introduction.- 1.1. Motivation.- 1.2. High-Energy Heavy-Ion Accelerators in the World.- 1.3. The High-Density-Temperature Nuclear Domain.- 1.4. The Experimental View.- 2. Theoretical Tools.- 2.1. Quantal and Classical Aspects.- 2.2. Classical Tools.- 2.3. Statistical Models.- 2.4. Hydrodynamics.- 2.5. Intranuclear Cascade.- 2.6. Nonequilibrium Quantum Scattering.- 3. Elements of the Reaction Mechanism.- 3.1. Collision Geometry.- 3.2. Evidence for Multiple Collisions.- 3.3. Inclusive Proton Spectra.- 3.4. Composite Formation.- 3.5. Pion Production.- 3.6. Strange-Particle Production.- 3.7. Coulomb Final-State Interactions.- 3.8. Forward and Backward Spectra.- 3.9. Spectator Physics.- 4. Toward the Physics of Dense Nuclear Matter.- 4.1. Do Nuclei Flow?.- 4.2. Entropy Puzzle.- 4.3. Novel States of Nuclei.- 5. Summary and Outlook.- Acknowledgments.- Appendix: Definition of Common Variables.- References.