Walid Younes,
Walter D. Loveland
Springer International Publishing
e druk, 2021
9783030845919
An Introduction to Nuclear Fission
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Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Springer International Publishing |
e druk, 2021
ISBN13: 9783030845919
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Onderdeel van serie
Graduate Texts in Physics
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Samenvatting
This hands-on textbook introduces physics and nuclear engineering students to the experimental and theoretical aspects of fission physics for research and applications through worked examples and problem sets. The study of nuclear fission is currently undergoing a renaissance. Recent advances in the field create the opportunity to develop more reliable models of fission predictability and to supply measurements and data to critical applications including nuclear energy, national security and counter-proliferation, and medical isotope production. An Introduction to Nuclear Fission provides foundational knowledge for the next generation of researchers to contribute to nuclear fission physics.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9783030845919
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing
Inhoudsopgave
<div>1. Introduction</div><div>1.1. Why study fission?</div><div>1.2. The discovery of fission</div><div>1.3. The role of women in the development of the field </div><div>1.4. Early model of fission: the Bohr and Wheeler paper</div><div>1.5. Structure of the book</div><div><br></div><div>2. Fission Systematics and General Characteristics</div>2.1. Spontaneous and induced fission<div>2.2. Chronology of the fission process</div><div>2.3. Fission energetics</div><div>2.4. Fission barriers</div><div>2.5. Fission isomers</div><div>2.6. Fragment mass and energy distributions</div><div>2.7. Neutron distributions</div><div><br></div><div>3. Fission Models</div>3.1. The liquid drop model<div>3.2. The Strutinsky shell correction method</div><div>3.3. Energy surfaces</div><div>3.4. Transition state theory</div><div>3.5. <br><div>4.1. Mass and charge distributions<div>4.2. Kinetic energy distribution</div><div>4.3. Angular momentum of fragments</div><div>4.4. Angular distribution of fragments</div><div>4.5. Decay of fragments: the Bateman equation</div><div><br></div><div>5. Fission Neutrons</div><div>5.1. Scission and post-scission neutrons</div><div>5.2. Prompt and delayed neutrons</div>5.3. Neutron yield</div><div>5.4. Neutron spectrum</div><div><br></div><div>6. Fission Gammas</div><div>6.1. Prompt and delayed gammas</div><div>6.2. Fission product yields from gamma-ray measurements</div><div>6.3. Fragment angular momentum deduced from gammas</div><div>6.4. Average gamma-ray energies and multiplicities</div><div>6.5. Shape of the gamma-ray spectrum</div><br><div>7. Advanced Topics</div><div>7.1. The Hartree-Fock approximation</div><div>7.2. The treatment of pairing in the BCS approximation</div><div>7.3. Constrained Hartree-Fock+BCS and energy surfaces</div><div>7.4. The Generator Coordinate Method</div><div>7.5. Fission dynamics: Semi-classical methods<div>7.6. Fission dynamics: Quantum-mechanical methods</div>7.7. The nucleus at and beyond scission<div>7.8. Future directions in fission theory and experiments</div><div><br></div></div></div>