Key Nuclear Reaction Experiments (eBook)

Discoveries and consequences

Hans Paetz gen. Schieck (Autor)

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2015
162 Seiten
Institute of Physics Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7503-1173-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 first half of the 20th century.

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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.

Autor

Hans Paetz gen. Schieck is an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Cologne, 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.

Inhalt

1 Introduction 2 Rutherford scattering and the atomic nucleus 3 The first true nuclear reaction and the discovery of the proton 4 Extended matter and charge distributions of nuclei 5 Halo nuclei and farewell to simple radius systematics 6 The particle zoo 7 Discovery of the neutron (nuclear kinematics, etc) 8 The first precise determination of the neutron mass and the binding energy of the deuteron 9 The first nuclear reaction with an accelerated beam and the Cockroft–Walton accelerator 10 Observation of direct interactions 11 Resonances and compound reactions 12 Nuclear reactions and tests of conservation laws 13 Scattering of identical nuclei, exchange symmetry and molecular resonances 14 Nuclear fission and nuclear energy 15 The first double scattering and polarization in p-4He and the (l·s) force 16 The first nuclear reaction of an accelerated polarized beam from a polarized ion source (Basel) 17 The discovery of giant resonances

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2015
• Reihe/Serie: IOP Expanding Physics
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
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• Zusatzinfo: With figures in colour and black and white
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: nuclear physics • Nuclear Reactions • Scientific History
• ISBN-10: 0-7503-1173-8 / 0750311738
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7503-1173-1 / 9780750311731