Growth Points in Nuclear Physics (eBook)

Nuclear Forces and Potentials Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms Heavy Ion Reactions

P. E. Hodgson (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
218 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-8042-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Growth Points in Nuclear Physics, Volume 2 covers the progress in the fields of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions. This book is composed of three chapters. The first chapter is devoted to nuclear forces and potentials, in particular the optical model potential that enables the elastic scattering of many particles by nuclei to be calculated in a very simple manner. This chapter also deals with the three-body forces and the spin dependence of the nuclear potential. The second chapter describes higher order processes involving two or more stages, specifically their intrinsic interest and the effect they can have on the total cross-section. The third chapter examines heavy ion reactions, one of the most prominent growth areas of contemporary nuclear physics. Heavy ion reactions are particularly sensitive to some features of nuclear structure, and thus constitute a powerful tool in nuclear structure research. This book will prove useful to nuclear physicists.

Inhalt

Front Cover 
1 
Growth Points in Nuclear Physics 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
Preface 8
Chapter 1. Nuclear Forces and Potentials 12
1.1 What Is the Nuclear Optical Potential 12
1.2 The Theory of the Nuclear Optical Potential 27
1.3 New Calculation of the Nuclear Optical Potential 32
1.4 Ambiguities in Helion Optical Potentials 35
1.5 Ambiguities in Alpha-particle Optical Potentials 37
1.6 Helion Inelastic Scattering as a Nuclear Probe 45
1.7 Nuclear Three-body Forces 48
1.8 Triton Potentials 53
1.9 Short-range Nuclear Forces 55
1.10 Target-spin Effects in Elastic Scattering 58
1.11 Spin-spin Forces in Nuclei 60
1.12 Nuclear Glue Probed with Gamma Rays 62
Chapter 2. Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms 65
2.1 Nuclear Reaction Times 65
2.2 Measurement of Short Nuclear Lifetimes 68
2.3 Wigner Cusps in Nuclear Reactions 70
2.4 Direct or Semi-direct 74
2.5 Accurate Spectroscopic Factors 77
2.6 Nuclear Spectroscopy 80
2.7 J-dependence in Nuclear Reactions 83
2.8 j-dependence in Nuclear Reactions 87
2.9 Neutron Pickup at High Energies 90
2.10 Multinucleon Transfer Reactions 93
2.11 Two-step Nuclear Reactions 94
2.12 Deuteron-gamma Angular Correlations 97
2.13 Parity Determination with Polarized Deuterons 101
2.14 Resonance Transfer Reactions 103
2.15 Reactions to Nuclear Anti-analogue State 105
2.16 Nuclear Spectroscopy with the (a,2He) Reaction 108
2.17 The {a, a) Reaction 111
2.18 The Fission of Light Nuclei 113
2.19 The Pion Double-charge-exchange Reaction 116
Chapter 3. Heavy Ion Reactions 118
3.1 Energetic Nuclear Collisions 118
3.2 The Dynamics of Nuclear Collisions 124
3.3 Nuclear Molecules 125
3.4 Existence of Nuclear Molecules Confirmed 134
3.5 Surface Waves in Heavy Ion Elastic Scattering 137
3.6 Strong Absorption in40Ca–40Ca Elastic Scattering 139
3.7 Negative Deflection Angles in Heavy Ion Scattering 142
3.8 Spin Dependence of Heavy Ion Transfer Reactions 145
3.9 Recoil and Transfer 148
3.10 Heavy Ion Transfer Reactions 150
3.11 Two-nucleon Transfer between Heavy Ions 153
3.12 Two-step Transfer Reactions between Heavy Ions 156
3.13 Coulomb-nuclear Interference 159
3.14 Interference in Heavy Ion Inelastic Scattering 161
3.15 Multiple Transfer Processes in Heavy Ion Reactions 164
3.16 High Spin States of Nuclei 167
3.17 Nuclear States of High Spin 169
3.18 Nuclear Friction 171
3.19 Nuclear Fusion 176
3.20 Fission of Medium Weight Nuclei 183
3.21 Pion Production in Heavy-ion Collisions 186
3.22 High-energy Nucleus-nucleus Collisions 189
3.23 Colliding Nuclei Make a Nuclear Fireball 192
3.24 Fireball Theory under Test at Bevala 194
3.25 Knockout Precedes Fireball in Nuclear Collisions 196
3.26 Nucleon Coalescence 198
3.27 Nuclear Shock Waves 199
3.28 Nuclear Transparency 203
3.29 Nuclear Shock Waves Unlikely 207
Name Index 210
Subject Index 216

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 1-4832-8042-X / 148328042X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-8042-4 / 9781483280424