Lectures on Nuclear Theory

Smorodinsky. Concise graduate-level introduction to key aspects of nuclear theory: nuclear forces, nuclear structure, nuclear reactions, pi-mesons, interactions of pi-mesons with nucleons, more. Based on landmark series of lectures by noted Russian physicist. "...a real jewel of an elementary introduction into the main concepts of nuclear theory...should be in the hands of every student."Nuclear Physics. 1959 edition. 8 black-and-white illustrations. Foreword.

Soviet physicist Lev Davidovich Landau (1908–68) made many contributions to theoretical physics, including the co-discovery of the density matrix method in quantum mechanics. He received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of a mathematical theory of super fluidity.
Prominent theorist Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky (1917–92) worked at Moscow's Kurchatov Institute and the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna. His chief interests involved the application of ideas from algebra and geometry to nuclear and particle physics.

FOREWORD
LECTURE ONE: Nuclear Forces
LECTURE TWO: Nuclear Forces (Scattering of Nucleons by Nucleons)
LECTURE THREE: Nuclear Forces (Scattering of Nucleons at High Energies)
LECTURE FOUR: Nuclear Structure (Independent Particle Model)
LECTURE FIVE: Structure of the Nucleus (Light Nuclei)
LECTURE SIX: Structure of the Nucleus (Heavy Nuclei)
LECTURE SEVEN: Nuclear Reactions (Statistical Theory)
LECTURE EIGHT: Nuclear Reactions (Optical Model. Deuteron Reactions)
LECTURE NINE: p-Mesons
LECTURE TEN: Interaction of p-Mesons with Nucleons