Nuclei and Particles: An Introduction to Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics

✍ Scribed by Emilio Segre

• Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 992
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nuclei And Particles: An Introduction To Nuclear And Subnuclear PhysicsNuclei and Particles: An Intro to Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Selected Bibliography

CHAPTER 1 History and Introduction
1-1 UNITS
1-2 TERMINOLOGY AND DEFINITIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

PART 1 TOOLS

CHAPTER 2 The Passage of Radiations through Matter
2-1 INTRODUCTION
2-2 RUTHERFORD SCATTERING
2-3 ENERGY LOSS DUE TO IONIZATION
2-4 ENERGY LOSS OF ELECTRONS
2-5 POLARIZATION EFFECTS-CERENKOV RADIATION
2-6 IONIZATION IN GASES AND SEMICONDUCTORS
2-7 MULTIPLE SCATTERING
2-8 STRAGGLING
2-9 PASSAGE OF GAMMA RAYS THROUGH MATTER
2-10 RADIATION LOSS BY FAST ELECTRONS
2-11 RADIATION LENGTH; SHOWERS
2-12 POSITRON ANNIHILATION
2-13 POLARIZATION PHENOMENA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 3 Detection Methods for Nuclear Radiations
3-1 CLASSIFICATION
3-2 IONIZATION CHAMBERS AND SOLID-STATE DETECTORS
3-3 PROPORTIONAL AND GEIGER-MULLER COUNTERS
3-4 SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
3-5 CERENKOV COUNTERS
3-6 PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSIONS
3-7 NUCLEAR TRACKS IN SOLIDS
3-8 CLOUD CHAMBERS
3-9 BUBBLE CHAMBERS
3-10 SPARK CHAMBER AND STREAMER CHAMBER
3-11 ELECTRONICS
3-12 COMPLEX NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS
3-13 CHARGED-PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS
3-14 GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETERS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 4 Particle Accelerators
4-1 INTRODUCTION AND CLASSIFICATION
4-2 POTENTIAL-DROP ACCELERATORS
4-3 THE BETATRON
4-4 THE CYCLOTRON
4-5 PHASE OSCILLATIONS AND STABILITY
4-6 THE SYNCHROTRON AND PROTON SYNCHROTRON
4-7 STRONG FOCUSING
4-8 LINEAR ACCELERATORS
4-9 COLLIDING BEAMS
4-10 BEAM-TRANSPORT APPARATUS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 5 Radioactive Decay
5-1 CONTINUUM THEORY-ONE SUBSTANCE
5-2 CONTINUUM THEORY-MORE THAN ONE SUBSTANCE
5-3 BRANCHING
5-4 SOME UNITS USED IN RADIOACTIVITY; DOSIMETRY
5-5 FLUCTUATIONS IN RADIOACTIVE DECAY-GENERAL THEORY
5-6 FLUCTUATIONS IN RADIOACTIVE DECAY-APPLICATIONS
5-7 METHOD OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
5-8 METHODS OF MEASURING DECAY CONSTANTS
5-9 CHRONOLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

PART 2 THE NUCLEUS

CHAPTER 6 Elements of the Nuclear Structure and Systematics
6-1 CHARGE
6-2 MASS
6-3 NUCLEAR RADII
6-4 MESIC AND EXOTIC ATOMS
6-5 NUCLEAR STATISTICS
6-6 THE NUCLEUS AS A FERMI GAS
6-7 THE LIQUID DROP MODEL
6-8 ELECTRIC MOMENTS OF NUCLEI
6-9 SPIN AND MAGNETIC MOMENTS I
6-10 SPIN AND MAGNETIC MOMENTS (MEASUREMENTS) II
6-11 NUCLEAR POLARIZATION
6-12 VALUES OF SPIN, MAGNETIC MOMENTS, AND QUADRUPOLE MOMENTS
6-13 SHELL MODEL
6-14 THE PAIRING INTERACTION
6-15 COLLECTIVE NUCLEAR MODEL
6-16 ROTATIONAL LEVELS
6-17 CONCLUDING REMARKS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 7 Alpha Emission
7-1 INTRODUCTION: BARRIER PENETRATION
7-2 FINE STRUCTURE OF ALPHA SPECTRA
7-3 SYSTEMATICS OF ALPHA DECAY
7-4 VIRTUAL BINDING
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 8 Gamma Emission
8-1 INTRODUCTION
8-2 SELECTION RULES
8-3 TRANSITION PROBABILITIES
8-4 INTERNAL CONVERSION
8-5 NUCLEAR ISOMERISM
8-6 ANGULAR CORRELATIONS IN GAMMA EMISSION
8-7 COULOMB EXCITATION
8-8 NUCLEAR FLUORESCENCE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 9 Beta Decay
9-1 INTRODUCTION
9-2 EXPERIMENTS ON THE NEUTRINO
9-3 ENERGETICS OF BETA DECAY
9-4 CLASSIFICATION OF INTERACTIONS. PARITY
9-5 FERMI'S THEORY OF BETA DECAY
9-6 MATRIX ELEMENT
9-7 FURTHER EXPERIMENTS ON THE WEAK INTERACTION
9-8 THEORY OF THE BETA INTERACTION
9-9 QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF SOME MATRIX ELEMENTS
9-10 CONSERVATION OF LEPTONS
9-11 UNIVERSAL FERMI INTERACTION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 10 The Two-Body Systems and Nuclear Forces
10-1 THE DEUTERON
10-2 LOW-ENERGY NEUTRON-PROTON SCATTERING
10-3 PROTON-PROTON SYSTEM AND SCATTERING
10-4 CHARGE INDEPENDENCE OF NUCLEAR FORCES-ISOTOPIC SPIN
10-5 SPIN-DEPENDENT AND TENSOR FORCES
10-6 NUCLEON-NUCLEON FORCES; EXCHANGE FORCES
10-7 POLARIZATION; HIGH-ENERGY NUCLEAR SCATTERING
10-8 CAPTURE OF SLOW NEUTRONS BY HYDROGEN
10-9 PHOTODISINTEGRATION OF THE DEUTERON
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 11 Nuclear Reactions
11-1 INTRODUCTION
11-2 GENERAL FEATURES OF CROSS SECTIONS
11-3 INVERSE REACTION-DETAILED BALANCE
11-4 REACTION MECHANISMS. THE COMPOUND NUCLEUS (QUALITATIVE)
11-5 FORMAL DEVELOPMENTS-SCATTERING MATRIX
11-6 RESONANCES
11-7 OPTICAL MODEL
11-8 COMPOUND NUCLEUS-LEVEL DENSITY
11-9 DIRECT REACTIONS
11-10 THE FISSION PROCESS
11-11 HEAVY-ION NUCLEAR REACTIONS
11-12 PHOTONUCLEAR REACTIONS
11-13 "INTERMEDIATE ENERGY" REACTIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 12 Neutrons
2-1 NEUTRON SOURCES
12-2 SLOWING DOWN OF NEUTRONS
12-3 ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF NEUTRONS FROM A MONOENERGETIC SOURCE
12-4 MEAN DISTANCE FROM A POINT SOURCE VS. ENERGY
12-5 DIFFUSION THEORY-INTRODUCTION
12-6 THE AGE EQUATION
12-7 DIFFUSION OF THERMAL NEUTRONS
12-8 CHAIN-REACTING PILE
12-9 PILE KINETICS
12-10 BREEDING AND CONVERTING
12-11 FUSION REACTIONS
12-12 EFFECT OF CHEMICAL BINDING OF HYDROGEN SCATTERER
12-13 LOW-ENERGY SCATTERING FROM COMPLEX NUCLEI
12-14 DETERMINATION OF SCATTERING LENGTHS
12-15 SCATTERING IN ORTHO- AND PARAHYDROGEN
12-16 INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA IN CRYSTALS
12-17 INDEX OF REFRACTION
12-18 POLARIZATION OF SLOW-NEUTRON BEAMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

PART 3 PARTICLES

CHAPTER 13 Introduction to Particle Physics
13-1 GENERAL IDEAS, NOMENCLATURE, AND CATALOGUE OF PARTICLES
13-2 ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION; STRANGENESS
13-3 INTERACTIONS; CONSERVATION LAWS
13-4 SOME NEW SYMMETRIES AND SELECTION RULES
13-5 CPT THEOREM
13-6 CROSSING RELATIONS
13-7 EXPERIMENTS ON MASS, LIFE, AND OTHER PARTICLE PROPERTIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 14 Leptons
14-1 NEUTRINOS
14-2 MUON PRODUCTION AND DECAY
14-3 MUON CAPTURE
14-4 SPIN AND MAGNETIC MOMENT OF MUONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 15 Pions and Other Bosons
15-1 THE YUKAWA INTERACTION
15-2 SPIN OF THE PIONS
15-3 INTRINSIC PARITY
15-4 ISOTOPIC SPIN OF PIONS
15-5 PION-NUCLEON SCATTERING AND RESONANCES
15-6 NUCLEAR-COLLISION PRODUCTION AND PHOTOPRODUCTION OF PIONS
15-7 THE p, co, AND OTHER STRONGLY DECAYING BOSONS
15-8 DALITZ PLOTS
15-9 THE rl AND K MESONS
15-10 PERIPHERAL COLLISIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 16 Baryons
16-1 BARYON GENERATION
16-2 BARYON SPIN MEASUREMENTS
16-3 HYPERFRAGMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 17 Classification of Hadrons, Quarks, and SU (3)
17-1 SAKATA'S MODEL; QUARKS
17-2 COMBINATION OF QUARKS
17-3 MASS FORMULAS
17-4 CROSS-SECTION PREDICTIONS BY SU(3) AND QUARKS
17-5 REGGE RECURRENCES
17-6 CHARM
17-7 COLOR
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 18 Form Factors and a+e- collisions
18-1 FORM FACTORS FOR NUCLEONS
18-2 ELECTRON-PROTON INELASTIC SCATTERING
18-3 ELECTRON-POSITRON COLLISIONS
18-4 THE p-PARTICLES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 19 Weak Interactions Revisited
19-1 CONSERVED CURRENT
19-2 SELECTION RULES IN STRANGE DECAYS; CABIBBO'S THEORY
19-3 NEUTRAL CURRENTS; UNIFICATION OF ELECTROMAGNETISM AND WEAK INTERACTIONS
19-4 INTERMEDIATE BOSONS
19-5 SOME FURTHER EXAMPLES OF WEAK DECAYS
19-6 THE K°-K° DOUBLET
19-7 CP VIOLATION IN K DECAY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 20 High-Energy Collisions of Hadrons
20-1 INTRODUCTION
20-2 STATISTICAL THEORY OF HIGH-ENERGY COLLISIONS
20-3 MAIN FEATURES OF HIGH-ENERGY COLLISIONS
20-4 DIFFRACTION SCATTERING
20-5 EXCHANGE COLLISIONS; REGGE POLES
20-6 INCLUSIVE REACTIONS; SCALING
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROBLEMS

APPENDIX A Scattering from a Fixed Center of Force

APPENDIX B Effective Range

APPENDIX C Description of Polarized Beams (Spin 1/2)
PROBLEM

APPENDIX D Kinematics of Binary Collisions
PROBLEMS

APPENDIX E Composition of Angular Momenta

Author Index

Subject Index