Hans Bethe: The Nuclear Many Body Problem

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.

25 pages, 15 figures, In "Hans Bethe and His Physics" (World Scientific, Singapore, 2006)

Cited by in corpus (4)

• An introduction to integrable techniques for one-dimensional quantum systems
• Shell-model calculations and realistic effective interactions
• Low-momentum NN interactions and all-order summation of ring diagrams of symmetric nuclear matter
• Neutron star, $\beta$-stable ring-diagram equation of state and Brown-Rho scaling