Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author biographies -- David G Jenkins -- John L Wood -- Chapter 1 Gross properties of nuclei -- 1.1 Exercises -- References -- Chapter 2 Nuclear excitation patterns -- 2.1 Basic features of excited states in even-even nuclei -- 2.1.1 Excitation energies -- 2.1.2 Electromagnetic decay properties -- 2.2 A basic symmetry of nuclei: isospin -- 2.3 Nuclear data compilations and evaluations -- 2.4 Exercises -- References -- Chapter 3 Nuclear deformation and rotations -- 3.1 The rotor model for nuclei: K = 0 bands -- 3.2 Odd-mass nuclei, intrinsic excitations, and rotations -- 3.3 Even-mass nuclei, intrinsic excitations, and rotations -- 3.4 Deformed nuclei and the K quantum number -- 3.4.1 K isomerism -- 3.4.2 One-nucleon transfer reactions -- 3.4.3 Band mixing and crossing -- 3.4.4 Magnetic moments -- 3.5 Nuclear moments of inertia -- 3.6 Exercises -- References -- Chapter 4 Towards a global view of nuclear structure -- 4.1 Shape coexistence in nuclei -- 4.2 Pairing-dominated structures in single-closed shell nuclei -- 4.3 Doubly closed shell nuclei -- 4.4 Weakly deformed nuclei -- 4.5 Exercises -- References -- Chapter 5 Simple models of nuclear structure -- 5.1 Independent-particle models for nuclear structure -- 5.1.1 The shell model -- 5.1.2 The Nilsson model -- 5.2 Pairing models for nuclear structure -- 5.3 Rotor models for nuclear structure -- 5.3.1 The dumbbell rotor model -- 5.3.2 Simple rotor models for nuclei -- 5.3.3 Models of moments of inertia for nuclei -- 5.4 The Bohr model for nuclear structure -- 5.5 Exercises -- References -- Chapter 6 Nuclear spectroscopic measurements -- 6.1 A quantum measurement preamble -- 6.2 Coulomb excitation -- 6.3 Radioactive decay -- 6.4 In-beam reaction γ-ray spectroscopy -- 6.5 Gamma-ray spectroscopy -- 6.6 Electron spectroscopy.

6.7 Reaction spectroscopic studies of nuclear structure -- 6.8 Atomic hyperfine spectroscopy studies for nuclei -- 6.9 Mass measurements studies for nuclei -- 6.10 Isotope separation on-line (ISOL) studies for nuclear structure -- 6.11 Lifetime measurements by Doppler techniques -- 6.12 Lifetimes of states associated with radiative emission of γ-rays -- 6.13 Exercises -- References -- Chapter 7 Metrology for nuclear structure study -- 7.1 The SI base units -- 7.2 The fundamental physical constants -- 7.3 Exercises -- References -- Chapter 8 Epilogue.