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Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No. 142
Physics of Unstable Nuclei
Edited by H. Horiuchi, T. Otsuka and Y. Suzuki
The study of unstable nuclei, which is leading to new
and fundamental developments in nuclear physics, was initiated
by Japanese experimentalists. The theoretical study of unstable
nuclei has also progressed significantly in Japan in close
relation with the remarkable experimental developments. This
theoretical research, which covers a wide range of subjects
regarding both structure and reactions, is noteworthy in that
it has produced several novel methods that have been successfully
applied to actual problems. These new methods include a stochastic
variational method, an antisymmetrized molecular dynamics method,
and a complex scaling method.
While the theoretical study of unstable
nuclei is still progressing, it is meaningful to present the existing
results in a unified form at this time, because it is expected that
we will have many new results in this research field with the
completion of experimental facilities planned at several places
around the world.
We hope that this supplemental volume will be
useful not only for theoreticians and experimentalists currently
working in this field but also for students who aim to participate
in such research in the future.
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