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Fundamentals in Nuclear Physics

From Nuclear Structure to Cosmology

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Jean-Louis Basdevant

    1. Département de Physique Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

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  2. Michel Spiro

    1. IN2P3-CNRS, Paris cedex 16, France

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  3. James Rich

    1. CEA-Saclay, Dapnia-SPP, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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  • All the phenomenological and experimental data on nuclear physics are covered and demonstrated using the latest experimental developments that can be obtained.

  • The book contains introductions to modern theories of fundamental processes, in particular the electroweak standard model, without using the sophisticated underlying quantum field theoretical tools.

  • All major present applications of nuclear physics are incorporated at a level which is both understandable by a majority of physicists and scientists of many other fields, and usefull as a first introduction for students who intend to pursue in the domain.

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-7

  3. Basic concepts in nuclear physics

    Pages 9-66

  4. Nuclear models and stability

    Pages 67-106

  5. Nuclear reactions

    Pages 107-173

  6. Nuclear decays and fundamental interactions

    Pages 175-243

  7. Radioactivity and all that

    Pages 245-283

  8. Fission

    Pages 285-328

  9. Fusion

    Pages 329-350

  10. Nuclear Astrophysics

    Pages 351-396

  11. Nuclear Cosmology

    Pages 397-439

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 441-515
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Nuclear physics began one century ago during the “miraculous decade” - tween 1895 and 1905 when the foundations of practically all modern physics were established. The period started with two unexpected spino?s of the Crooke’s vacuum tube: Roentgen’s X-rays (1895) and Thomson’s electron (1897), the ?rst elementary particle to be discovered. Lorentz and Zeemann developed the the theory of the electron and the in?uence of magnetism on radiation. Quantum phenomenology began in December, 1900 with the - pearance of Planck’s constant followed by Einstein’s 1905 proposal of what is now called the photon. In 1905, Einstein also published the theories of relativity and of Brownian motion, the ultimate triumph of Boltzman’s s- tistical theory, a year before his tragic death. For nuclear physics, the critical discovery was that of radioactivity by Becquerel in 1896. By analyzing the history of science, one can be convinced that there is some rationale in the fact that all of these discoveries came nearly sim- taneously, after the scienti?cally triumphant 19th century. The exception is radioactivity, an unexpected baby whose discovery could have happened s- eral decades earlier. Talentedscientists,theCuries,Rutherford,andmanyothers,tookthe- servationofradioactivityandconstructedtheideasthatarethesubjectofthis book. Of course, the discovery of radioactivity and nuclear physics is of much broader importance. It lead directly to quantum mechanics via Rutherford’s planetary atomic model and Bohr’s interpretation of the hydrogen spectrum. This in turn led to atomic physics, solid state physics, and material science.

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The authors are well-regarded scientists who work at the interface of nuclear and particle physics and astrophysics... The text succeeds quite well in its aims.... [T]he authors have found the right balance between presenting nuclear physics as a domain of fundamental research and exploring its applications in neutrino physics, plasma physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.

              —A. Baha Balantekin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, in Physics Today

Authors and Affiliations

  • Département de Physique Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

    Jean-Louis Basdevant

  • IN2P3-CNRS, Paris cedex 16, France

    Michel Spiro

  • CEA-Saclay, Dapnia-SPP, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    James Rich

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