An introduction to nuclear physics /
Cottingham, W. N.
An introduction to nuclear physics / W.N. Cottingham, D.A. Greenwood - 2nd edition - Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, c2001. - xv, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Prologue
2. Leptons and the electromagnetic and weak interactions
3. Nucleons and the strong interaction
4. Nuclear sizes and nuclear masses
5. Ground state properties of nuclei
the shell model
6. Alpha decay and spontaneous fission
7. Excited states of nuclei
8. Nuclear reactions
9. Power from nuclear fission
10. Nuclear fission
11. Nucleosynthesis in stars
12. Beta decay and gamma decay
13. The passage of energetic particles through matter
Appendices: A. Cross-sections
B. Density of states
C. Angular momentum
D. Unstable states and resonances
E. Radioactivity and radiological units.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245) and index.
0521651492 (hbk.) 0521657334 (pbk.)
Nuclear physics.
539.7 / COT
An introduction to nuclear physics / W.N. Cottingham, D.A. Greenwood - 2nd edition - Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, c2001. - xv, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Prologue
2. Leptons and the electromagnetic and weak interactions
3. Nucleons and the strong interaction
4. Nuclear sizes and nuclear masses
5. Ground state properties of nuclei
the shell model
6. Alpha decay and spontaneous fission
7. Excited states of nuclei
8. Nuclear reactions
9. Power from nuclear fission
10. Nuclear fission
11. Nucleosynthesis in stars
12. Beta decay and gamma decay
13. The passage of energetic particles through matter
Appendices: A. Cross-sections
B. Density of states
C. Angular momentum
D. Unstable states and resonances
E. Radioactivity and radiological units.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245) and index.
0521651492 (hbk.) 0521657334 (pbk.)
Nuclear physics.
539.7 / COT