The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner. Part A: The Scientific Papers, vol. II: Nuclear Physics

Wigner E.P.The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner Part A,The Scientific Papers,vol.II,Nuclear Physics(Springer,1996)(ISBN 3540569723)(600dpi) ......Page 4
Copyright  ......Page 7
Editors’ Preface viii  ......Page 8
Contents ix  ......Page 9
Annotation by Herman Feshbach 1 ......Page 11
On the Mass Defect of Helium 15 ......Page 25
On the Scattering of Neutrons on Protons / Uber die Streuung von Neutronen an Protonen 21 ......Page 31
Note on Majorana’s Exchange Energy (with G. Breit) 27 ......Page 37
Capture of Slow Neutrons (with G. Breit) 29 ......Page 39
On the Saturation of Exchange Forces 42 ......Page 52
The Disintegration of Li8 (with G. Breit) 47 ......Page 57
On the Structure of the Nuclei Between Helium and Oxygen (with E. Feenberg) 48 ......Page 58
On the Consequences of the Symmetry of the Nuclear Hamiltonian on the Spectroscopy of Nuclei 60 ......Page 70
On the Structure of Nuclei Beyond Oxygen 74 ......Page 84
The b-Ray Spectrum of Li8 (with G. Breit) 86 ......Page 96
The Saturation Requirements for Nuclear Forces (with G. Breit) 87 ......Page 97
On the Saturation of Forces Derived from the Meson Theory (with L. Eisenbud) 93 ......Page 103
On Coupling Conditions in Light Nuclei and the Lifetimes of  b-Radioactivities 94 ......Page 104
The Electron-Positron Field Theory of Nuclear Forces (with C.L. Critchfield and E. Teller) 103 ......Page 113
Magnetic Moments of Odd Nuclei (with H. Margenau) 113 ......Page 123
Nuclear Masses and Binding Energies 121 ......Page 131
Invariant Forms of Interaction Between Nuclear Particles (with L. Eisenbud) 133 ......Page 143
The Antisymmetrical Interaction in Beta-Decay Theory (with C.L. Critchfield) 142 ......Page 152
Symmetry Properties of Nuclear Levels (with E. Feenberg) 144 ......Page 154
Resonance Reactions and Anomalous Scattering 188 ......Page 198
Reaction and Scattering Cross-Sections 207 ......Page 217
Resonance Reactions 212 ......Page 222
Higher Angular Momenta and Long Range Interaction in Resonance Reactions (with L. Eisenbud) 225 ......Page 235
On the Behavior of Cross Sections Near Thresholds 238 ......Page 248
Nuclear Reactions and Level Widths 246 ......Page 256
On the Statistical Distribution of the Widths and Spacings of Nuclear Resonance Levels 257 ......Page 267
Sum Rules in the Dispersion Theory of Nuclear Reactions (with T. Teichmann) 266 ......Page 276
On the Shell Model for Nuclei 279 ......Page 289
Note on the Beta-Decay 296 ......Page 306
A b-Decay Matrix Element for a Deformed Core Model (with M.G. Redlich) 301 ......Page 311
On the Origin and the Effects of Spin-Orbit Coupling in Nuclei 306 ......Page 316
The Interpretation of Racah’s Coefficients 315 ......Page 325
Giant Resonance Interpretation of the Nucleon-Nucleus Interaction (with A.M. Lane and R.G. Thomas) 316 ......Page 326
Results and Theory of Resonance Absorption 325 ......Page 335
Distribution of Neutron Resonance Level Spacing 337 ......Page 347
On the Distribution of the Roots of Certain Symmetric Matrices 339 ......Page 349
Isotopic Spin - A Quantum Number for Nuclei 342 ......Page 352
Statistical Properties of Real Symmetric Matrices with Many Dimensions 367 ......Page 377
Approximation Method in Collision Theory Based on R-Matrix Theory (with C.B. Duke) 378 ......Page 388
Causality, ii-Matrix, and Collision Matrix 384 ......Page 394
Distribution Laws for the Roots of a Random Hermitean Matrix 412 ......Page 422
Remarks 428 ......Page 438
Random Matrices in Physics 433 ......Page 443
General Principles of Nuclear Structure (with L. Eisenbud and G.T. Garvey) 456 ......Page 466
Some General Consequences of the Short-Range Nature of Nuclear Forces 517 ......Page 527
Extension of the ii-Matrix Theory (with F. Narcowich) 566 ......Page 576
Papers Reprinted in Volume II 567 ......Page 577
Related Papers Reprinted in Other Volumes of The Collected Works  571 ......Page 581
Related Papers Not Reprinted in The Collected Works 573 ......Page 583
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