Midsicu, dSerban creator author. Institute of Physics (Great Britain) publisher. text bibliography enk 2023 monographic eng access 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color). This comprehensive book presents at a theoretical level the main aspects of high-power lasers interacting with nuclei at a broad range of intensities for scientists and students involved in this new and challenging area of research. It presents theoretical techniques, some borrowed from atomic physics, and applications related to important chapters of nuclear physics. This book provides an overview of the field's state-of-the-art and an introduction to the classical and quantum foundations of the interaction of a particle or a system of particles with the electromagnetic field. Topics such as particle emission of nuclei, collective dipole modes induced by strong laser beams and laser-assisted heavy-ion scattering are discussed. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Statement of the problem -- 1.2. A brief review of electromagnetic theory -- 1.3. Laser pulses -- 1.4. The motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field -- 1.5. Gauge transformations -- 1.6. The dinuclear system in a laser field -- 1.7. Characterization of laser-nucleus interaction in analogy to atom-nucleus interaction -- 1.8. Doppler amplification of the laser pulse characteristics 2. Theoretical treatment of classical and quantum systems in strong laser fields -- 2.1. Oscillations of a classical plasma induced by a periodic electric field -- 2.2. Perturbative methods -- 2.3. Non-perturbative methods -- 2.4. High-intensity regimes 3. Giant dipole modes induced by a high-frequency electric field -- 3.1. Neutron-proton mixtures in an external electromagnetic field 4. Laser-assisted nuclear radioactive processes -- 4.1. The semiclassical theory of quantum tunneling in a periodic field -- 4.2. The modification of nuclear particle decay rates in x-ray laser fields 5. Heavy-ion scattering in a strong laser field -- 5.1. Scattering in an arbitrarily polarized radiation field -- 5.2. Refractive scattering of loosely bound nuclei -- 5.3. Elastic scattering in a linearly polarized short laser pulse. Graduate students researchers in nuclear physics. specialized dSerban Midsicu. "Version: 20230801"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader. dSerban Midsicu is Senior Researcher at the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania. He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Atomic Physics Bucharest, and habilitation from J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. He was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow (2000-2001, 2005 and 2012), received the Marie Curie fellowship (2001-2003), the DFG fellowship (1999, 2013), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Argonne National Laboratory (2005-2006). Laser manipulation (Nuclear physics) Nuclear physics SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear QC689.5.L35 .M5676 2023eb Release 23 2023 collection 9780750331999 9780750331982 https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-3199-9 https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-3199-9 CaBNVSL 230905 20251030124212.0 9780750331999 eng