Title A Study of the Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonance : The Role of Symmetry Energy in Nuclear Incompressibility in the Open-Shell Nuclei Author(s) Patel, Darshana Chandrakant Publication Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. Description XXVI, 102 p. 51 illus., 42 illus. in color : online resource Abstract Note This thesis reports on investigations of a specific collective mode of nuclear vibration, the isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR), the nuclear "breathing mode", the energy of which is directly related to a fundamental property of nuclei???the nuclear incompressibility. The alpha inelastic scattering experiments reported in this thesis have been critical to answering some fundamental questions about nuclear incompressibility and the symmetry energy, quantities that are crucial to our understanding of a number of phenomena in nuclear physics and astrophysics, including collective excitations in nuclei, radii of neutron stars, and the nature of stellar collapse and supernova explosions. The work described included three sets of experiments and subsequent sophisticated data analysis, both leading to results that have been welcomed by the community and recognised as important contributions to the field ISBN,Price 9783319222073 Keyword(s) 1. ASTROPHYSICS 2. Astrophysics and Astroparticles 3. EBOOK 4. EBOOK - SPRINGER 5. Heavy ions 6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 7. NUCLEAR PHYSICS 8. Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons 9. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I10142     On Shelf