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Relativistic many-body bound systems. Monograph report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7363083

The principles and the mathematical details of a fully relativistic nuclear theory are given. Since the concept of nuclear forces is a strictly non-relativistic construct, it must be abandoned, and the forces must be replaced explicitly by their physical origin, i.e., by the interaction between nucleons and mesons. Thus, in this monograph the description of a nucleus has been formulated as a problem of relativistic quantum field theory which is solved by nuclear physics methods; to wit: the physics is described by specifying a Lagrangian which is a functional of the constituent fields (= of the parton fields); the solutions for the physical systems then are obtained in a time-independent treatment as expansions in the parton fields: both particles and nuclei are composite systems, made up of parton configurations, which define a representation of the Hamiltonian (associated with the specified Lagrangian). (GRA)

Research Organization:
National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colo. (USA). Inst. for Basic Standards
OSTI ID:
7363083
Report Number(s):
COM-75-10614; NBS-Mono-147
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English