John Dirk Walecka obtained his PhD in nuclear theory from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958. He was Professor of Physics at Stanford University from 1966 to 1987 and then went on to become Scientific Director of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) from 1986 to 1992. He is now Governor's Distinguished CEBAF Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary. His research interests cover theoretical nuclear and sub-nuclear physics, in particular nuclear structure, the relativistic nuclear many-body problem, strong-coupling QCD, and electroweak interactions with nuclei. He has published numerous papers on nuclear physics, and in 1996 the American Physical Society recognized his work with the award of the Bonner Prize. He has lectured on electron scattering throughout the United States and Europe.
Part I. Introduction: 1. Motivation
2. Pictures of the nucleus
3. Some optics
4. Why electron scattering?
5. Target response surfaces
6. Why coincidence experiments?
7. Units and conventions
Part II. General Analysis: 8. Electromagnetic interactions
9. Multipole analysis
10. Dirac equation
11. Covariant analysis
12. Excitation of discrete states in (e, e*)
13. Coincidence experiments (e, e* X)
14. Deep inelastic scattering from the nucleon
15. Polarization in deep inelastic scattering
16. Parity violation in inclusive electron scattering
Part III. Quantum Electrodynamics: 17. Basic elements
18. Radiative corrections
Part IV. Selected Examples: 19. Basic nuclear structure
20. Some applications
21. A relativistic model of the nucleus
22. Elastic scattering
23. Quasielastic scattering
24. The quark model
25. Quantum chromodynamics
26. The standard model
27. Parity violation
28. Excitation of nucleon resonances
Part V. Future Directions: 29. TJNAF(CEBAF)
30. Other facilities
31. Future directions
Appendixes.
