Stanley G. Prussin

Nuclear Physics for Applications

A Model Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

This practical textbook gives advanced undergraduates minoring in physics a knowledge of nuclear physics. Simplifying models and approaches reveal the essence of the principles, while the mathematical and quantum mechanical background is integrated in the text where it belongs.

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Der Autor dieses Bandes, ein Forscher mit internationaler Lehrerfahrung, wendet sich vor allem an fortgeschrittene Studenten mit Physik im Nebenfach. Anwendungsorientiert, mithilfe einfacher Modelle und gut durchschaubarer Ansätze erklärt er die Grundlagen der Kernphysik. Mathematische und quantenmechanische Herleitungen fristen kein Schattendasein in Anhängen, sondern sind übersichtlich in den laufenden Text integriert. Viele Übungsaufgaben helfen beim Vertiefen des Stoffs. Beim Verlag ist ein Lösungsheft erhältlich.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-VCH
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 634
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 171mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1230g
• ISBN-13: 9783527407002
• ISBN-10: 3527407006
• Artikelnr.: 22533296

Autorenporträt

Stanley G. Prussin received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1964. After doing postdoctoral research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1964 to 1966, he accepted a post at the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, where he still teaches in the position of a Professor of Graduate Studies. Professor Prussin is a member of the American Nuclear Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His areas of teaching expertise are low-energy nuclear physics, nuclear- and radiochemistry and applications, radiation protection and control, nuclear chemical engineering, and nuclear instrumentation.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface XI

1 Aspects of Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics 1

2 Nuclear Reactions 71

3 Thermonuclear Reactions 143

4 Nuclear Physics Experiments 217

5 Nuclear Burning Stages and Processes 371

Appendix

A Solutions of the Schrödinger Equation in Three Dimensions 567

A.1 Zero Orbital Angular Momentum and Constant Potential 569

A.2 Arbitrary Orbital Angular Momentum and Zero Potential 569

A.3 Arbitrary Orbital Angular Momentum and Coulomb Potential 570

B Quantum Mechanical Selection Rules 573

C Kinematics 581

C.1 Relationship of Kinematic Quantities in the Laboratory Coordinate
System 581

C.2 Transformation between Laboratory and Center- Of-Mass
Coordinate System 585

D Angular Correlations 591

D.1 General Aspects 592

D.2 Pure Radiations in a Two-Step Process 596

D.3 Mixed Radiations in a Two-Step Process 598

D.4 Three-Step Process with Unobserved Intermediate Radiation 603

D.5 Experimental Considerations 605

D.6 Concluding Remarks 607
I. Introduction
II. Nuclear Masses and Energetics Of Radioactive Decay and Nuclear Reactions
III. Phenomenology of Radioactive Decay and Nuclear Reactions
IV. Nuclear Binding Energies: Empirical Data and the Forces in Nuclei
V. The Semiempirical Mass Formula and Applications to Radioactive Decay
VI. Elements of Quantum Mechanics
VII. Nuclear Structure: The Spherical Shell Model
VIII. Nuclear Shapes, Deformed Nuclei and Collective Effects
IX. Alpha Decay and Barrier Penetration
X. Beta Decay
XI. Gamma Decay and Internal Conversion
XII. Nuclear Fission
XIII. Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions
XIV. The Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Matter
Appendix 1. Atomic masses
Appendix 2. Nuclide Table
Appendix 3. Physical Constants
Appendix 4. First-Order Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory - The Fermi Golden Rule #2
Subject Index and Name Index