Background Atomic and Nuclear Physics
This chapter gives a brief summary of the underlying principles of atomic and nuclear physics which are needed to understand the laser spectroscopy methods used to measure the short-lived indium isotopes studied in this thesis, in addition to their releva
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Background Atomic and Nuclear Physics
This chapter gives a brief summary of the underlying principles of atomic and nuclear physics which are needed to understand the laser spectroscopy methods used to measure the short-lived indium isotopes studied in this thesis, in addition to their relevance to nuclear structure.
2.1 Nuclear Structure The nuclear many-body problem can be written succinctly by the Schrödinger equation, with the Hamiltonian, H , as H |ψ = (T + V ) |ψ = E |ψ
(2.1)
where T is the kinetic energy operator and V is the potential energy operator, for a system of A nucleons [1]. vi j + vi jk + vi jkl + ... (2.2) V = i< j
i< j
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