Introductory Nuclear Physics
Published on 28. August 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
738 pages
978-0-19-851897-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a comprehensive balanced and up-to-date introduction to nuclear physics that describes the experiments made to study nuclear reactions and nuclear structure, and the theories and models that have been developed to understand the properties of nuclei and their interactions. After a historical introduction, there are chapters on nuclear accelerators and detectors, elementary particles, nuclear forces, nuclear reaction theory, nuclear models, nuclear and heavy ion reactions, nuclear astrophysics and nuclear reactors. While primarily aimed at undergraduates it will also serve as a reference for graduate students and professional nuclear physicists.
Reviews / Votes
"This book follows in the post-second world war tradition of excellence in nuclear physics textbooks...It not only provides good coverage of the fundamentals of the subject but also gives an account of ideas and data in 1990s...The theoretical development is thorough and detailed. The expert use of experimental data demonstrates the deep knowledge of the authors...It is likely that this book will become one of the standard texts and with occasional updating could remain so for many years." Times Higher Education Supplement, Friday 27th November 1998More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
halftones, numerous line figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1117 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-851897-6 (9780198518976)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Ch 1 - Historical Introduction ; Ch 2 - Radioactivity ; Ch 3 - The Discovery of the nucleus ; Ch 4 - Particle accelerators and neutron sources ; Ch 5 - Particle detectors ; Ch 6 - Basic Forces ; Ch 7 - The Leptons ; Ch 8 - The Hadrons ; Ch 9 - The Quarks ; Ch 10 - Laws of Invasriance ; Ch 11 - Boson Field Theory and Phenomenological Description of Nuclear Forces ; Ch 12 - Few-Nucleon Systems ; Ch 13 - The Theory of Scattering ; Ch 14 - Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering ; Ch 15 - Nuclear Systematics ; Ch 16 - Nuclear Properties ; Ch 17 - Nuclear Models ; Ch 18 - Nuclear Decay ; Ch 19 - General Features of Nuclear Reactions ; Ch 20 - Direct Reactions ; Ch 21 - Compound Nucleus Reactions ; Ch 22 - Pre-Equilibrium and Composite-Particle Reactions ; Ch 23 - Heavy-Ion Reactions ; Ch 24 - Nuclear Reactors ; Ch 25 - Cosmology and nuclear astrophysics