Lectures delivered at the 17th National Nuclear Physics Summer School 2005, Berkeley, CA, June 6-17, 2005.

Abstract: Because the interaction is well-known, Coulomb excitation is one of the best tools for the investigation of nuclear properties. In the last 3 decades new reaction theories for Coulomb ex . . . . .

The first lecture provides an introduction to the physics of color superconductivity in cold dense quark matter. The main color superconducting phases are briefly described and their properties are li . . . . .

These lecture notes are addressed to PhD student and/or researchers who want a general overview of microscopic approaches based on mean-field and applied to nuclear dynamics. Our goal is to provi . . . . .

Dispense di 134 pagine, ben fatte, sulla teoria dello scattering nel caso di particelle puntiformi e di particelle dotate di struttura interna.

From the contents: Many-boson configurations. Creation- and annihilation operators. The Hamilton operator. The angular momentum operator of the interacting boson model. The Hamiltonian expressed in te . . . . .

An introduction to nuclear theory is given starting from the quantum chromodynamics foundations for quark and gluon fields, then discussing properties of pions and nucleons, interactions between nucle . . . . .