Synopses & Reviews
The authors decided to write this book when they could find no other texts for a course on non-relativistic nuclear reactions. It combines a thorough theoretical approach with applications to recent experimental results. The main formalisms used to describe nuclear reactions are explained clearly and coherently, and the reader is led from basic laws to the final formulae used to calculate measurable quantities. Topics include quantal and semi-classical potential scattering; the formal theory of nuclear reactions, including the theory of the optical model; and direct reactions and coupled-channel systems. Also included are compound nucleus reactions and fusion, dissipation fluctuations in deep-inelastic collisions, fusion, and heavy-ion induced fission. The book will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers in nuclear and atomic physics.
Synopsis
The authors decided to write this book when they could find no other texts for a course on non-relativistic nuclear reactions. It combines a thorough theoretical approach with applications to recent experimental results. The main formalisms used to describe nuclear reactions are explained clearly and coherently, and the reader is led from basic laws to the final formulae used to calculate measurable quantities. Topics include quantal and semi-classical potential scattering; the formal theory of nuclear reactions, including the theory of the optical model; and direct reactions and coupled-channel systems. Also included are compound nucleus reactions and fusion, dissipation fluctuations in deep-inelastic collisions, fusion, and heavy-ion induced fission. The book will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers in nuclear and atomic physics.
Table of Contents
1. Quantum theory of potential scattering
2. Semiclassical scattering
3. The wave-optical description of potential scattering
4. The formal theory of potential scattering
5. The formal theory of reactions
6. The optical model
7. Single-step approximations
8. The coupled-channel description of direct reactions
9. Fusion
10. Compound nucleus reactions
11. Deep-inelastic collisions. Phenomena and theory
12. Analysis of deep-inelastic collisions, fusion and heavy ion induced fission.