1998/01/26 by R. Bijker, A. Leviatan
Physics and Astronomy · #nucl-th
published as Rev. Mex. Fis. 44 (1998) 110-119 · 29 pages, 3 tables and 11 figures, invited talk at `XL Congreso Nacional de Fisica', Monterrey, Mexico
arxiv created 1998/01/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Interacting boson models provide an elegant and powerful method to describe collective excitations of complex systems by introducing a set of effective degrees of freedom. We review the interacting boson model of nuclear structure and discuss a recent extension to the nucleon and its excited states.