1 The Reorientation Effect. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Classical Estimates of Effects. - 3. Theory of Coulomb Excitation. - 4. Theory of the Reorientation Effect. - 5. Excitation via the Giant Dipole Resonance. - 6. Experimental Methods. - 7. Reorientation Experiments. - Acknowledgments. - Appendix I. Numerical Expressions. - Appendix II. Tables of Orbital Integrals. - Appendix III. Approximate Formula for the Reorientation Effect. - References. - 2 The Nuclear SU3 Model. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Basic Shell Model. - 3. Symmetry of Oscillator Quanta The Groups U3 and SU3. - 4. The Effective Interaction. - 5. Application of the SU3-Coupling Scheme to Light Nuclei. - 6. Summary and Developments. - Acknowledgments. - References. - Appendix A. Harmonic Oscillator. - Appendix B. Use of Groups in Quantum Mechanics. - Appendix C. The Symmetric and Unitary Groups. - Appendix D. Generating Operators of Us. - Appendix E. Classification According to SU3 without the Harmonic Oscillator. - Appendix F. Raising and Lowering Operators of the Group SU3. - Appendix G. Calculation of Matrix Elements. - Appendix H. The Normalization Coefficients and Overlaps. - Appendix I. Use of the Group SU3 in the Classification of Elementary Particles. - 3 The Hartree-Fock Theory of Deformed Light Nuclei. - 1. Introduction. - 2. The Hartree-Fock Equations. - 3. Symmetries of the Hartree-Fock Hamiltonian. - 4. The Choice of an Expansion for the Orbits. - 5. Single Major Shell Hartree-Fock Calculations. - 6. Solutions of the Single Major-Shell Hartree-Fock Calculations for Even-Even N = Z Nuclei. - 7. Deformed Excited Equilibrium States of Spherical Nuclei. - 8. A Soluble ModelThe Effect of the Exchange Components of the Interaction. - 9. The Deformation of the Hartree-Fock FieldThe Quadrupole-Quadrupole Interaction. - 10. The Effect ofthe Spin-Orbit Splitting. - 11. The Multiplicity of Hartree-Fock Solutions. - 12. Hartree-Fock Solutions of Other Nuclei. - 13. Magnetic Moments of Odd-A Nuclei. - 14. Angular Momentum Projection. - 15. Major-Shell-Mixing Hartree-Fock CalculationsQuadrupole Polarization of Closed Shells. - 16. Conclusion. - Acknowledgments. - References. - 4 The Statistical Theory of Nuclear Reactions. - 1. Introduction. - 2. The Model for Average Cross Sections. - 3. Application of the Evaporation Model. - 4. Basis of the Evaporation Model in Reaction Theory. - 5. Conclusions. - Acknowledgments. - Appendix A. Absorption Cross Section of a Complex Square Well. - Appendix B. Effect of Finite Averaging Interval. - References. - 5 Three-Particle ScatteringA Review of Recent Work on the Nonrelativistic Theory. - 1. Introduction. - 2. The Amado Model. - 3. The Faddeév Equations. - 4. Application of the Faddeév Equations. - 5. Concluding Remarks. - Acknowledgments. - References. - Appendix A. - Appendix B. - Appendix C. - Appendix D. - Appendix E. Language: English