Pre-equilibrium emission in nuclear reactions : fundamentals, measurements and analysis /

This book discusses in detail the phenomena of pre-equilibrium emission in statistical nuclear reactions. It serves as an experimental manual for beginners in the field of accelerator-based research, and as a source of complete information on the topic.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Singh, B. P. (Professor of physics) (Autor), Sharma, Manoj K. (Autor), Prasad, R. (Emeritus Professor of Physics) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 22.
IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.
Temas:
Nuclear reactions.
Nuclear physics.
Particle and nuclear physics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction to the history of nuclear reactions and motivation for this book
  • 1.1. Background
  • 1.2. Nuclear atom
  • 1.3. The first transmutation reaction
  • 1.4. Discovery of neutron
  • 1.5. Artificial radioactivity
  • 1.6. Strong nuclear force
  • 1.7. New isotopes
  • 1.8. Discovery of fission
  • 1.9. Self-sustained fission chain reaction
  • 1.10. Fusion reaction
  • 1.11. Accelerators
  • 1.12. Particle accelerators in India
  • 1.13. Radiation detectors
  • 1.14. Study of reaction mechanism
  • 1.15. Statistical reactions
  • 1.16. Experimental verification of independence of formation and decay of compound nucleus
  • 1.17. Particle spectra
  • 1.18. Experimentally measured energy spectrum of ejectiles
  • 1.19. Motivation
  • 2. Characteristics of binary nuclear reactions
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Classification of nuclear reactions
  • 2.3. Conservation laws for nuclear reactions
  • 2.4. Quantities not conserved in nuclear reactions
  • 2.5. Nuclear reactions versus chemical reactions
  • 2.6. Energetics of nuclear reactions
  • 2.7. Centre-of-mass frame of reference
  • 2.8. Cross-section
  • 3. Theoretical formulation of compound and pre-compound emission
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Compound reaction mechanism
  • 3.3. Verification of Bohr's independent hypothesis
  • 3.4. Theoretical formulation
  • 3.5. Hauser-Feshbach formulations
  • 3.6. Weisskopf-Ewing formulation
  • 3.7. Nuclear level density
  • 3.8. Pre-equilibrium emission
  • 4. Models for pre-equilibrium emission
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Intra-nuclear cascade model (INC)
  • 4.3. The exciton model
  • 4.4. Harp-Miller-Berne (HMB) model
  • 4.5. Hybrid model
  • 4.6. Quantum mechanical model for pre-equilibrium process
  • 4.7. Computer codes
  • 5. Experimental measurements
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Neutron induced reactions
  • 5.3. Proton induced reactions
  • 5.4. Alpha induced reactions
  • 5.5. Heavy-ion induced reactions
  • 5.6. In-beam studies of the pre-equilibrium emission
  • 6. Data analysis, parameterisation of pre-equilibrium fraction
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Pre-equilibrium fraction
  • 6.3. Energy dependence in light-particle-induced reactions
  • 6.4. Dependence of relative magnitudes of fR and fCN on energy
  • 6.5. Systematics of pre-equilibrium fraction in odd Z and odd A nuclei
  • 6.6. Systematics for heavy-ion induced reactions
  • 6.7. Pre-equilibrium component from recoil range distribution (RRD)
  • 6.8. Pre-equilibrium component from spin distribution measurement
  • 6.9. Pre-equilibrium emission and synthesis of SHE
  • 6.10. Future perspective.

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