Nuclear Physics; A Course Given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago

by Orear, Jay

• ISBN13: 9780226243658
• ISBN10: 0226243656
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1974-08-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

This volume presents, with some amplification, the notes on the lectures on nuclear physics given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago in 1949. "The compilers of this publication may be warmly congratulated. . . . The scope of this course is amazing: within 240 pages it ranges from the general properties of atomic nuclei and nuclear forces to mesons and cosmic rays, and includes an account of fission and elementary pile theory. . . . The course addresses itself to experimenters rather than to specialists in nuclear theory, although the latter will also greatly profit from its study on account of the sound emphasis laid everywhere on the experimental approach to problems. . . . There is a copious supply of problems."Proceedings of the Physical Society "Only a relatively few students are privileged to attend Professor Fermi's brilliant lectures at the University of Chicago; it is therefore a distinct contribution to the followers of nuclear science that his lecture material has been systematically organized in a publication and made available to a much wider audience."Nucelonics

Table of Contents

Properties of Nuclei

Isotope, Charts and Tables

Packing Fraction and Binding Energy

Liquid Drop Model

Semi-empirical mass formula

Isobaric behavior

ß-emission

Periodic shell structure

Spin and Magnetic Dipole Moment

Electric Quadrupole Moment

Radioactivity and its Geological Aspects

Measurement and Biological Aspects of Radioactivity

Appendices

Magnetic Moment for Closed-shell-plus-one Nuclei

Electric Quadrupole Moment

Mass Correction for Neutron Excess Problems

Interaction of Radiation with Matter

Energy Loss by Charged Particles

Bohr formula

Electrons

Other particles

Other absorbers

Range

Polarization Effects

Nature of equation for -dE/dx

Ionization of a gas

Radiation

Scattering

Classical calculation for single scattering

Multiple scattering

Passage of Electromagnetic Radiation through Matter

Photoelectric absorption

Compton scattering

Radiation loss by fast electrons

Pair formation

Cosmic ray showers

Summary

Appendices

Multiple scattering

Momentum and pair creation References

Alpha Emission

Rectangular Barrier

Barrier of Arbitrary Shape

Application of Barriers to ¿-decay

Virtual Level Theory of ¿-decay

¿-ray Spectra

Appendix

Beta-Decay

Introduction

Examples of ß-processes

Energy diagrams

Theory of ß-decay

Rate of Decay

Shape of Energy and Momentum Spectra

Experimental Verification

Selection Rules

F¿ Tables

Remarks on K-capture

Remarks on the Neutrino Hypothesis

Neutrinos and Anti-neutrinos

Gamma-Decay

Spontaneous Emission General emission formula Electric dipole emission Magnetic dipole emission Half lives

Selection Rules

Angular Momentum

Parity

Improbability of nuclear dipole radiation

Summary

Dipole absorptionat high energies

Internal Conversion

Theory of internal conversion

Selection rules

Other processes

Experimental determination of conversion coeff.

Isomeric States Problems

Nuclear Forces

Introduction

Meson Theory

Saturation of nuclear forces

Exchange forces

The Deuteron

Non-central and spin-dependent forces

Ground state of the deuteron

Neutron-Proton Scattering

Method of partial waves

Low-energy solution for ¿

Virtual state of the deuteron

Evidence for exchange forces

Proton-Proton Forces

Pauli principle complications

Spin functions

Coulomb scattering

Neutron-Neutron Forces

Mesons

Experimental Properties

Theory References for mason theory Problems

Nuclear Reactions

Notation

Cross Sections, General

Inverse Processes

Compound Nucleus

Example of an Unstable Nucleus (4Be8)

Resonances; Breit-Wigner Formula

Resonances; Data

Statistical Nuclear Gas Model

Fission

Orbit Model of the Nucleus

Capture of Slow Neutrons by Hydrogen

Photonuclear Reactions

Remarks on Very High Energy Phenomena

Neutrons

Neutron Sources

Radioactive sources

Photo-sources

Artificial sources

Slowing Down of Neutrons

Inelastic

Elastic

Energy distribution of neutrons from a mono- energetic source

Distance from a point source vs. energy

Diffusion Theory

Age Equation

Distribution of thermal neutrons

Scattering of Neutrons

Effect of chemical binding

Low energy scattering

Interference phenomena

Para- and ortho-hyrogen

Crystalline diffraction

Index of refraction

Scattering by microcrystals

Polarization of neutron beams

Theory of Chain Reactions

Cosmic Rays

Primary Radiation

Secondary Radiation

Protons

Neutrons

Mesons

Electronic Component

Analysis into Hard and Soft Component

Motion in the Earth's Magnetic Field

Trajectories

Illustration: Equatorial Plane, Shadow Effect

Intensity: Liou

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