These proceedings comprise the contents of a major international conference on Perspectives of the Interacting Boson Model. Occasioned by the 20th Anniversary of this model, and attended by approx. 130 scientists from 29 countries, the topics focused on current and future research, which relates to the IBM. This model has now become one of the standard approaches to nuclear structure and has helped usher in a renaissance in that field and a new, unified perspective that focuses on dynamical symmetries and the key role of the valence nucleons. The algebraic approach fostered by the model is being extended to other fields, including nuclear reactions, molecular physics and baryon structure.
Contents:
- Perspectives for the Interacting Boson Model (F Iachello)
- From Independent Nucleons to Interacting Bosons (I Talmi)
- Robust Predictions of the Interacting Boson Model (R F Casten)
- Interacting Boson Model for O(6) Nuclei (T Otsuka et al.)
- The Scissors Mode and Related Modes Revisited in the IBM and Other Models (A Richter)
- From Seniority to Collectivity (A Arima)
- Quadrupole "Phonon" Excitations in Even Xenon Model (P von Brentano et al.)
- The Pair–Coupling Model (D J Rowe)
- Interacting Boson–Fermion Model for Strongly Deformed Nuclei (R V Jolos & A Gelberg)
- Reflection Asymmetric Shapes in Interacting Boson–Boson and Boson–Fermion Systems (C E Alonso et al.)
- Contribution of the Two–Phonon Configurations to the Wave Function of Low–Lying States in Deformed Nuclei (V G Soloviev)
- New Challenges from Radioactive Beams (D D Warner)
- The NT-Dependence of the IBM-3 Hamiltonian (J P Elliott et al.)
- Nuclear Collective Motion with Isospin (J N Ginocchio & A Leviatan)
- Interacting Bosons in Molecular Structure (A Frank & R Lemus)
Readership: Nuclear physicists.
