| An empirical approach to the
theory of particle and nuclear phenomena: Review and some new ideasRAJA RAMANNA 1 and SUDHIR R JAIN 2
1 National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus,
Bangalore 560 012, India
2 Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India Email: ramanna@nias.iisc.ernet.in; srjain@apsara.barc.ernet.in Abstract. Experimental data on masses and lifetimes of unstable particles falls into a pattern, a brief review of some interesting consequences is presented here. From the experience in semiclassical methods and recent advances in quantum chromodynamics, it is proposed that an appropriate generalization of the Gutzwiller trace formula for field theories may lead to a systematic semiclassical chromodynamics theory. The theory can be developed to get appropriate dynamics leading to an explanation of pattern discovered in the empirical data.Keywords: Nuclear masses and lifetimes; trace formula; semiclassical chromodynamics; quantum chaos; random matrix theory. Pacs Nos. 21.10.-k; 24.85.+p; 05.45.Mt; 03.65.Sq |