Nuclear physics
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OSTI ID:4353465
This is a textbook on low-energy nuclear physics designed for upper- division undergraduates. It contains little on experimental techniques and nothing on the interaction of radiation with matter. The Fermi Golden Rule runs like a thread through the entire book. Chapter 1 is primarily concerned with nuclear structure at a fairly basic level; the collective model is not included. Chapter 2 deals with spin and static electric and magnetic moments, approached from the point of view of quantum mechanics rather than the vector model. Chapter 3, on nuclear decay, treats both electromagnetic and BETA decay through quantum mechanics, but without formal field theory. Chapter 4, on the theory of nuclear reactions, discusses the concepts of cross section and of resonance in considerable detail. Chapter 5 is concerned with self-sustaining nuclear reactions; it deals with the nuclear physics of the fission reactor, the nuclear aspects of stellar physics, and the problems of devising a thermonuclear power plant. Chapter 6 discusses the subject of isospin in detail, its relation with charge independence in low-energy nuclear physics, and the extension of the original concept to pion physics and the physics of strange particles. (RWR)
- Research Organization:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- NSA Number:
- NSA-29-025467
- OSTI ID:
- 4353465
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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