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Exploring Nuclear Matter at High Densities

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From Nucleons to the Atomic Nucleus

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As was discussed in Chap. 4, it is possible to study the fine details of the nuclear many-body system using electromagnetic probes. One can go beyond this and even observe the mesonic degrees of freedom explicitly, or even deeper to study quark degrees of freedom in some detail. These observations, however, are restricted to very local regions inside the atomic nucleus.

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Heyde, K. (1998). Exploring Nuclear Matter at High Densities. In: From Nucleons to the Atomic Nucleus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03633-4_5

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