| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Reactions with Light Exotic Nuclei | p. 9 |
| Introduction to Part I | p. 11 |
| Potential scattering | p. 19 |
| Elements of scattering theory | p. 19 |
| Scattering wave function | p. 19 |
| Integral equation for scattering | p. 20 |
| Flux conservation and optical theorem | p. 21 |
| The eikonal approximation | p. 25 |
| Derivation | p. 25 |
| Treatment of the spin-orbit potential | p. 33 |
| Projectile-rest frame | p. 35 |
| Illustrative examples | p. 37 |
| Square-well potential | p. 37 |
| Coulomb scattering | p. 40 |
| Glauber theory for composite-particle scattering | p. 43 |
| Some kinematics | p. 43 |
| Glauber theory | p. 46 |
| Formal treatment | p. 46 |
| Eikonal approximation | p. 50 |
| Cross sections and reaction probabilities | p. 53 |
| Nucleus+nucleus collision | p. 56 |
| Profile function | p. 60 |
| Optical-limit approximation to the phase-shift function | p. 62 |
| Nucleon-nucleus case | p. 62 |
| Nucleus-nucleus case | p. 67 |
| Total reaction cross section | p. 69 |
| Phase-shift function revisited | p. 74 |
| Complete calculation | p. 74 |
| Effective profile function | p. 77 |
| High-energy reactions of halo nuclei | p. 81 |
| Simple model for halo nuclei | p. 81 |
| Glauber theory for halo nuclei | p. 83 |
| Cross section formulae | p. 83 |
| Relations between cross sections | p. 87 |
| Optical-limit approximation for halo nuclei | p. 90 |
| Applications | p. 96 |
| Medium-energy reactions of halo nuclei | p. 101 |
| Elastic scattering of stable nuclei | p. 101 |
| Optical model | p. 101 |
| Folding model | p. 103 |
| Few-body direct reaction model | p. 109 |
| The model | p. 109 |
| Eikonal approximation | p. 111 |
| Cross sections and reaction probabilities | p. 113 |
| Applications | p. 115 |
| Deuteron reactions | p. 115 |
| Reactions with [superscript 11]Be: integrated cross sections | p. 119 |
| Reactions with [superscript 11]Be: differential cross sections | p. 122 |
| Reactions with other nuclei | p. 125 |
| Fragment momentum distribution in reactions with halo nuclei | p. 127 |
| Momentum distribution of projectile fragments | p. 127 |
| Formalism | p. 131 |
| Fundamentals | p. 131 |
| Elastic breakup | p. 134 |
| Inelastic breakup | p. 135 |
| Derivation in the Glauber theory | p. 138 |
| Applications | p. 142 |
| A reaction with [superscript 11]Be | p. 142 |
| A reaction with [superscript 8]B | p. 144 |
| Coulomb breakup reactions of halo nuclei | p. 147 |
| Soft dipole mode | p. 147 |
| Dipole strength function | p. 147 |
| Sum rule | p. 151 |
| Zero-range potential model | p. 152 |
| Equivalent-photon method | p. 157 |
| Theory of the Coulomb breakup | p. 160 |
| Eikonal approximation | p. 160 |
| Perturbative theory | p. 165 |
| Coulomb breakup reaction of [superscript 11]Be | p. 169 |
| Postacceleration phenomena | p. 174 |
| Structure of Light Exotic Nuclei | p. 177 |
| Introduction to Part II | p. 179 |
| Overview | p. 179 |
| Description of exotic structure | p. 184 |
| Cluster approach with Gaussians | p. 189 |
| Correlated Gaussian approach | p. 193 |
| Preliminary notes | p. 193 |
| Motivation | p. 193 |
| Essentials | p. 195 |
| Coordinates and correlations | p. 198 |
| Variational trial function | p. 201 |
| Formulation in terms of relative coordinates | p. 201 |
| Formulation without reference to relative coordinates | p. 204 |
| Full form | p. 209 |
| Generating function | p. 211 |
| Definition | p. 211 |
| Generating a correlated Gaussian | p. 214 |
| Gaussian wave packets | p. 216 |
| Correlated Gaussian from single-particle states | p. 219 |
| Evaluation of matrix elements | p. 221 |
| Uncoupling | p. 221 |
| Including the centre of mass | p. 224 |
| Generic forms of determinantal matrix elements | p. 227 |
| Translation-invariant matrix elements | p. 228 |
| Physical quantities | p. 231 |
| One-body operators | p. 231 |
| Two-body operators | p. 239 |
| Variational procedure | p. 243 |
| Basis optimization | p. 243 |
| Stochastic optimization | p. 246 |
| Random basis and sorting | p. 246 |
| Trial-and-error search | p. 248 |
| Refining | p. 250 |
| Description of excited states | p. 252 |
| Short-range and long-range behaviour | p. 255 |
| Description of unbound states | p. 260 |
| Classification | p. 260 |
| Localization of resonances | p. 264 |
| Analytic continuation in the coupling constant | p. 269 |
| Pole trajectories | p. 269 |
| Analytic continuation of pole trajectories | p. 273 |
| Cluster models | p. 277 |
| Preliminary notes | p. 277 |
| Basic concepts of clustering | p. 279 |
| Theory of clustering | p. 282 |
| Cluster subspace | p. 282 |
| Projection to the cluster subspace | p. 284 |
| Amplitudes related to clustering | p. 288 |
| Calculation of the clustering properties | p. 292 |
| Basic concepts of cluster models | p. 293 |
| Overview | p. 293 |
| Intercluster relative motion | p. 294 |
| The resonating-group method | p. 300 |
| Essentials | p. 301 |
| Matrix elements | p. 305 |
| The harmonic-oscillator cluster model | p. 310 |
| The model | p. 310 |
| Eigenvalue problem of the norm operator | p. 314 |
| The generator-coordinate method and the two-centre shell model | p. 315 |
| Generator-coordinate method | p. 315 |
| The method of complex generator coordinates | p. 321 |
| Two-centre shell model | p. 324 |
| Cluster distortion | p. 327 |
| The orthogonality-condition model | p. 332 |
| The nonlocality problem | p. 333 |
| Local intercluster potential | p. 336 |
| Microscopic versus macroscopic approach | p. 340 |
| Observables | p. 340 |
| The fishbone model | p. 343 |
| Three-cluster system | p. 344 |
| Cluster model in the correlated Gaussian approach | p. 351 |
| Multicluster approximation | p. 351 |
| Model space and interactions | p. 356 |
| Characteristics of the state space | p. 357 |
| Clustering in light nuclei | p. 358 |
| Effective force | p. 360 |
| Cluster correlations | p. 367 |
| Correlated versus uncorrelated description | p. 367 |
| Clustering in A-nucleon calculations | p. 370 |
| Application to exotic nuclei | p. 379 |
| The structure of [superscript 6]He and [superscript 6]Li | p. 379 |
| Exposition | p. 379 |
| State spaces | p. 381 |
| Test of the approach | p. 386 |
| Observables | p. 390 |
| The structure of [superscript 8]He | p. 396 |
| The mirror nuclei ([superscript 7]Li, [superscript 7]Be), ([superscript 8]Li, [superscript 8]B) and ([superscript 9]Li, [superscript 9]C) | p. 402 |
| Exposition | p. 402 |
| The structure of [superscript 7]Li and [superscript 7]Be | p. 403 |
| The structure of [superscript 8]Li and [superscript 8]B | p. 404 |
| The structure of [superscript 9]Li and [superscript 9]C | p. 408 |
| Magnetic moments of mirror nuclei | p. 410 |
| Summary | p. 416 |
| The mirror nuclei [superscript 9]Be and [superscript 9]B | p. 417 |
| Exposition | p. 417 |
| State spaces and energies | p. 418 |
| Radii and electromagnetic properties | p. 423 |
| Beta-decay of [superscript 9]Li to [superscript 9]Be | p. 427 |
| Summary | p. 428 |
| The states of [superscript 10]Be | p. 429 |
| Exposition | p. 429 |
| Model | p. 430 |
| Spectroscopy of states | p. 431 |
| Density distributions | p. 434 |
| The sequence of Be isotopes | p. 438 |
| The parity inversion in the mirror nuclei [superscript 11]Be and [superscript 11]N | p. 439 |
| The nuclei [superscript 10,11]Li | p. 446 |
| Facts and speculations | p. 446 |
| Theoretical approaches | p. 450 |
| Overview of exotic structure | p. 456 |
| Structure calculations with realistic nuclear forces | p. 460 |
| Realistic forces | p. 461 |
| Stochastic variational solution | p. 463 |
| The triton and the alpha-particle | p. 464 |
| The description of [superscript 6]Li | p. 465 |
| Reaction calculations with correlated Gaussians | p. 468 |
| Exposition | p. 468 |
| High-energy p+[superscript 6]He scattering | p. 469 |
| High-energy [superscript 6]He+[superscript 12]C scattering | p. 474 |
| Low-energy [alpha]+[superscript 6]He scattering | p. 477 |
| Appendices | p. 483 |
| Overview of reaction theories | p. 483 |
| Conventional cluster Jacobi coordinates | p. 491 |
| Borromean and Efimov states | p. 497 |
| Antisymmetrization | p. 503 |
| Matrix elements between Slater determinants | p. 509 |
| Unit operator | p. 509 |
| One-body operators | p. 510 |
| Two-body operators | p. 513 |
| Many-body operators | p. 516 |
| Matrix elements between correlated Gaussians | p. 523 |
| Other matrix elements | p. 533 |
| Successive coupling | p. 533 |
| Unnatural parity states | p. 534 |
| Calculation of the amplitudes related to clustering | p. 539 |
| An [alpha]+n+n three-cluster model for [superscript 6]He | p. 547 |
| The nuclear SU(3) symmetry | p. 553 |
| Bibliography | p. 563 |
| Glossary of symbols | p. 581 |
| Index | p. 587 |
| Abbreviations | p. 592 |
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