Recent development in the nuclear many-body problem. vol. 2

In a concise way the book treats modern approaches to the nuclear many-body problem stressing the conceptional points of view as well as the links to other fields of physics. After introducing the basic concepts and formal elements of the quantum mechanical collision theory, the description of nuclear reactions in terms of the R-matrix and projection operator techniques is presented. The phenomenological optical model, direct reactions as a tool of reaction spectroscopy, and statistical aspects of nuclear reactions are discussed. The treatment of the few-body problem in nuclear reactions is based on the Faddeev equations. Special emphasis is given to the classical and semiclassical theory of heavy-ion collisions, the phenomenon of nuclear friction, and the time-dependent mean-field approach to heavy-ion induced reactions. (author)