Key nuclear reaction experiments : discoveries and consequences / Hans Paetz gen. Schieck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paetz gen. Schieck, Hans, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP expanding physics

IOP expanding physics, 2053-2563

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear reactions--Experiments.

Nuclear reactions.

Nuclear physics--Experiments.

Nuclear physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2015]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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text file

Biography/History:

Dr. Hans Paetz gen. Schieck is an emeritus professor of physics at Cologne University, a member and fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the German Physical Society DPG. He is the author of several books on nuclear physics and of many articles in refereed journals.

Summary:

In this book the author charts the developments in nuclear physics since its inception around a century ago by reviewing the key experiments that helped drive and shape our understanding of the field, especially in the context of the wider developments in physics in the early 20th century. In addition to providing a path through the field and the crucial events it looks at how these experiments not only answered key questions at the time but presented new challenges to the contemporary perception of the nuclear and sub-atomic worlds and how they helped develop our present understanding of nuclear physics.

Contents:

Preface

About the author

1. Introduction

1.1. Rutherford and evidence for the nuclear atom

1.2. The first true nuclear reaction

1.3. The role of accelerators

1.4. Detection methods

1.5. The neutron and the correct composition of nuclei

1.6. Nuclear spectroscopy

1.7. Higher energies

1.8. General references and resources

2. Rutherford scattering and the atomic nucleus

2.1. Rutherford scattering cross section

3. The first true nuclear reaction and the discovery of the proton

4 Extended matter and charge distributions of nuclei

4.1. Hadron scattering experiments

4.2. Elastic electron scattering

Hofstadter's experiments

4.3. Key experiments with complementary methods

5. Halo nuclei and farewell to simple radius systematics

6. The particle zoo

6.1. The pion

6.2. The first production of the antiproton in a nuclear reaction

6.3. Discovery of the (electron) neutrino

6.4. Quasi-elastic electron scattering

excited nucleons and the particle zoo

6.5. Deep-inelastic lepton scattering

partons inside hadrons

7. Discovery of the neutron (nuclear kinematics, etc)

7.1. Chadwick's discovery

7.2. The structure of nuclei and the role of neutrons

8. The first precise determination of the neutron mass and the binding energy of the deuteron

8.1. The photonuclear disintegration of the deuteron

8.2. Neutron-proton capture

9. The first nuclear reaction with an accelerated beam and the Cockroft-Walton accelerator

10. Observation of direct interactions

10.1. Elastic scattering and the optical model

10.2. Direct (rearrangement) reactions

10.3. Stripping reactions

10.4. The Born approximation

11. Resonances and compound reactions

11.1. Generalities

11.2. Theoretical shape of the cross sections

11.3. Derivation of the partial-width amplitude for nuclei (s-waves only)

11.4. The first evidence of resonant nuclear reactions

11.5. Neutron resonances

11.6. Charged-particle resonances

11.7. The compound-nucleus model

12. Nuclear reactions and tests of conservation laws

12.1. The first tests of parity violation in hadronic reactions

12.2. First time-reversal tests

12.3. The NN interaction and isospin

13. Scattering of identical nuclei, exchange symmetry and molecular resonances

13.1. The first observation of interference in the scattering of identical nuclei

13.2. Studies of heavy-ion reactions and intermediate structure

14. Nuclear fission and nuclear energy

15. The first double scattering and polarization in p-4He and the (l [dot] s) force

16. The first nuclear reaction of an accelerated polarized beam from a polarized ion source (Basel)

17. The discovery of giant resonances.

Notes:

"Version: 20151001"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on November 1, 2015).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780750311731

9780750311755

OCLC:

928530876

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