Nuclear Physics -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- Contents -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- NUCLEAR PHYSICS TODAY -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS -- The Planned Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility -- The Next Major Initiative: the Relativistic Nuclear Collider -- Additional Facility Opportunities -- Nuclear Instrumentation -- Nuclear Theory -- Accelerator Research and Development -- Training New Scientists -- Enriched Stable Isotopes -- Nuclear-Data Compilation -- 1 Introduction to Nuclear Physics -- THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS -- THE NUCLEAR MANY-BODY PROBLEM -- THE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES -- THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES -- Leptons -- Quarks -- Elementary Vector Bosons -- CONSERVATION LAWS AND SYMMETRIES -- ACCELERATORS AND DETECTORS -- Projectiles and Targets -- Energies -- Nuclear Interactions -- Particle Detectors -- I MAJOR ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS -- 2 Nuclear Structure and Dynamics -- ELEMENTARY MODES OF EXCITATION -- Giant Electric Resonances -- Giant Spin Vibrations -- Deltas in Nuclei -- Electron-Scattering Results -- The Interacting Boson Model -- MACROSCOPIC NUCLEAR DYNAMICS -- Resonances in Heavy-Ion Systems -- Deep-Inelastic Collisions -- THE NUCLEAR MANY-BODY PROBLEM -- The Three-Nucleon Nucleus and Infinite Nuclear Matter -- Properties of Finite Nuclei -- The Effective NN Interaction at Intermediate Energies -- Expanding the Traditional Many-Body Theory -- 3 Fundamental Forces in the Nucleus -- NONNUCLEONIC CONSTITUENTS OF NUCLEI -- Probing Quark Structure with Leptons -- The Physics of Hypernuclei -- Quantum Chromodynamics at Low Energies -- THE NUCLEUS AS A LABORATORY FOR FUNDAMENTAL SYMMETRIES -- Right-Handed Bosons in Beta Decay -- The Mass of the Neutrino -- Neutrino Oscillations -- Double Beta Decay -- Parity Violation in Nuclei -- 4 Nuclei Under Extreme Conditions -- NUCLEI AT HIGH TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY.

High Nuclear Temperatures -- High Nuclear Densities -- Nuclear-Matter Equation of State -- THE HEAVIEST ELEMENTS -- New Transfermium Elements -- The Search for Superheavy Elements -- HIGHLY UNSTABLE NUCLEI -- Exotic Radioactivities -- Long Isotopic Sequences -- Nuclei with Extremely High Spin -- II IMPACTS OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS -- 5 Nuclear Astrophysics -- NUCLEI UNDER EXTREME ASTROPHYSICAL CONDITIONS -- Nucleosynthesis of Light Elements -- Supernova Explosions and Neutron-Star Formation -- Weak-Interaction Processes in Supernovas -- NUCLEAR REACTIONS IN STARS -- The Solar-Neutrino Problem -- Stellar Evolution -- 6 Scientific and Societal Benefits -- CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS -- ATOMIC PHYSICS -- GEOLOGY AND COSMOLOGY -- NUCLEAR AND RADIATION MEDICINE -- MATERIALS MODIFICATION AND ANALYSIS -- ENERGY TECHNOLOGY -- THE FINE ARTS -- III CURRENT FRONTIERS OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS -- 7 Approaching the Quark-Gluon Plasma -- STATES OF NUCLEAR MATTER -- ACHIEVING QUARK DECONFINEMENT -- DETECTING THE QUARK-GLUON PLASMA -- ADDITIONAL RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION PHYSICS -- 8 Changing Descriptions of Nuclear Matter -- QUARKS IN NUCLEI -- MESONS AND BARYON RESONANCES IN NUCLEI -- NUCLEAR PROPERTIES UNDER EXTREME CONDITIONS -- 9 The Electroweak Synthesis and Beyond -- THE STANDARD MODEL -- PHYSICS WITH NEUTRINO BEAMS -- TESTING THE GRAND UNIFIED THEORIES -- Time-Reversal-Invariance Violation -- The Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron -- RARE MUON AND KAON DECAYS -- 10 Recommended Priorities for Nuclear Physics -- ACCELERATORS IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS -- Existing Facilities -- The Planned Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility -- THE NEXT MAJOR INITIATIVE: THE RELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLIDER -- Recommendations from the NSAC 1983 Long Range Plan -- Complementary Aspects of CEBAF and the RNC -- FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS -- Additional Facility Opportunities.

Nuclear Instrumentation -- Nuclear Theory -- Accelerator Research and Development -- Training New Scientists -- Enriched Stable Isotopes -- Nuclear Data Compilation -- APPENDIXES -- A National and Dedicated University Accelerator Facilities -- B Advisors and Reviewers -- Participants in the DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee's Long Range Plan Workshop, Wells... -- Agency Representatives -- Chairmen of Working Groups -- Participants In Working Groups Who Did Not Attend Workshop -- Readers of The Nuclear Physics Panel Report (February-March 1984) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ARTICLES FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN -- BOOKS -- GLOSSARY -- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- TECHNICAL TERMS -- INDEX.