An expert and illuminating review of the leading models of nuclear structure: effective field theories based on quantum chromodynamics; ab initio models based on Monte Carlo methods employing effective nucleon-nucleon interactions; diagonalization and the Monto Carlo shell model; non-relativistic and relativistic mean-field theory and its extensions; and symmetry-dictated approaches. Theoretical advances in major areas of nuclear structure are discussed: nuclei far from stability and radioactive ion beams; gamma ray spectroscopy; nuclear astrophysics and electroweak interactions in nuclei; electron scattering; nuclear superconductivity; superheavy elements. The interdisciplinary aspects of the many-body problem are also discussed. Recent experimental data are examined in light of state-of-the-art calculations.
Recent advances in several broad areas of theoretical structure are covered, making the book ideal as a supplementary textbook.

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Preface. I: Nuclear Many-Body Problem: Building Blocks. Role of Chiral Symmetry in the Nuclear Many-Body Problem; N. Kaiser, W. Weise. Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of p-shell Nuclei; S.C. Pieper. Electron Scattering and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem; T.W. Donnelly. Relativistic Effects in Quasielastic Electron Scattering; M.B. Barbaro. II: Nuclear Shell Model. Effective Interactions for Finite Nuclei; M. Hjorth-Jensen. Magic Numbers in Exotic Nuclei and Spin-Isospin Properties of NN Interaction; T. Otsuka, et al. Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for the Nuclear Many Body Problem at Finite Temperature; Y. Alhassid. Quadrupole Collective States in the Monte-Carlo Shell Model; N. Shimizu, et al. Variational Approach to Medium Mass N=Z Nuclei; A. Petrovici. Description of Exotic Nuclei using Continuum Shell Model; N. Michel, et al. III: Relativistic Models. Relativistic Field Theories and the Microscopic Description of the Nuclear System; P. Ring. Relativistic Mean Field Approach with Density and Momentum-Dependent Coupling Vertices; S. Typel, H.H. Wolter. Effects of New Couplings from Relativistic Effective Field Theory Models; M. Centelles, et al. Rotating Nuclei in the Relativistic Mean Field Theory: Microscopic nature of nuclear magnetism; A.V. Afanaesjev, et al. Nuclear Fission Described in the Framework of the Relativistic Mean Field Theory: The Strutinsky type approach; V.V. Pashkevich, P. Ring. Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry in Nuclei; J.N. Ginocchio, A. Leviatan. Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry and the Structure of Nuclear States; A. Leviatan, J.N. Ginocchio. The Pseudospin Symmetry in Finite Nuclei: Dirac Phenomenology; S. Marcos, et al. IV: Symmetry Dictated Approaches. Microscopic Description of Heavy Deformed Nuclei; J.G. Hirsch, et al. Electromagnetic Transition Strengths in 104Cd and 101Ag and their Interpretation within the Interacting Boson (Fermion) plus Broken Pair Model; A. Jungclaus, et al. Investigation of Properties of Mixed Symmetry States in 94Mo and 96Ru; P. von Brentano, et al. V: Pairing in Nuclei. Sources of Pairing in Nuclei; R.A. Broglia. Relativistic Theory of Pairing in Finite Nuclei; M. Serra, P. Ring. Pairing Properties in Relativistic Mean Field Models Based on Effective Field Theory; M. Del Estal, et al. Contact Pairing Interaction for the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Calculations; J. Dobaczewski, et al. Size Dependence of Pairing in Finite Fermi Systems; M. Farine, P. Schuck. Pairing Correlations along the Fission Path; H.J. Krappe, S. Fadeev. VI: Nuclear Collective Motion. Multi-Phonon States in Spherical Nuclei; V.Y. Ponomarev. Collective Properties of the Low Energy Dipole Response in the Relativistic RPA; N. Paar, et al. Extensions of the Perturbed SPA: Decay Rates of Damped Systems and Improvement for Small Temperatures; C. Rummel, et al. High-Spin Structure of Neutron-rich Dy Isotopes; A. Ansari, H.L. Yadav. VII: Nuclei Far From Stability. The Challenges of Understanding Exotic Nuclei; R.F. Casten. Quadrupole Collectivity in Theories Beyond Mean Field with Effective Forces; R. Rodriguez-Guzmán, et al. Mean-field Treatment of Isobaric Excitations in N-Z Nuclei. Search for the Isoscalar Pairing Collectivity; W. Satula. Particle-Unstable Nuclei: Mean Field Description; A.T. Kruppa, et al. Proton Emission from Gamow Resonance; T. Vertse, et al. Nucleon Distributions in Loosely Bound Nuclei; Y.K.