In the book, contents are organized in eighteen chapters. In the first chapter, we get few basic ideas in nuclear physics which are necessary to develop the rest chapters. It deals with the basic concepts in nuclear physics. In chapter two, nuclear structure model is described. Chapter three is devoted to spontaneous decay of nuclei. The chapters four, five and six deal with nuclear decays by alpha-decay, beta-decay and gamma-decay as a usual sequence for studying such topics in nuclear physics. The chapters seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven deal with nuclear reaction, nuclear reaction models and nuclear reaction mechanisms. A large body of the book is given to this topic because many properties of nuclei are explained from their interactions. Nuclear fission and fusion are discussed in chapters twelve and thirteen. Chapter fourteen deals with electromagnetic interaction with nuclei followed by introduction to particle physics in chapter fifteen. Finally, the author present three additional chapters: Interaction of radiations with matter, data analysis methods in nuclear physics and some applications of nuclear physics.
2 See for instance J.-L. Basdevant and J. Dalibard, Quantum mechanics , chapter 16, Springer-Verlag, 2002. 3 The virial theorem only guarantees that for power-law potentials these two energies are of the same order.
This book will be of value to all undergraduates studying nuclear physics, as well as to first-year graduates. The level of the presentation bridges the gap between introductory undergraduate and the more advanced graduate textbooks.
This book reviews the basic models and theories of nuclear structure and gives an in-depth analysis of their experimental and mathematical foundations.
This book introduces the current understanding of the fundamentals of nuclear physics by referring to key experimental data and by providing a theoretical understanding of principal nuclear properties.
A complete Solutions Manual and figure slides for classroom projection are available for instructors adopting the text.
Fundamentals of Nuclear Reactor Physics offers a one-semester treatment of the essentials of how the fission nuclear reactor works, the various approaches to the design of reactors, and their safe and efficient operation .
The book begins with the conceptual and mathematical basics of quantum mechanics, and goes into the main point of nuclear physics – nuclear structure, radioactive ion beam physics, and nuclear reactions.
A complete Solutions Manual and figure slides for classroom projection are available for instructors adopting the text.
Fundamentals of Nuclear Physics (PB)
Fundamentals of atomic and nuclear physics