Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Constants of nature, conversion factors and notation
- Glossary of some important symbols
- 1 Prologue
- 2 Leptons and the electromagnetic and weak interactions
- 3 Nucleons and the strong interaction
- 4 Nuclear sizes and nuclear masses
- 5 Ground-state properties of nuclei: the shell model
- 6 Alpha decay and spontaneous fission
- 7 Excited states of nuclei
- 8 Nuclear reactions
- 9 Power from nuclear fission
- 10 Nuclear fusion
- 11 Nucleosynthesis in stars
- 12 Beta decay and gamma decay
- 13 Neutrinos
- 14 The passage of energetic particles through matter
- 15 Radiation and life
- Appendix A Cross-sections
- Appendix B Density of states
- Appendix C Angular momentum
- Appendix D Unstable states and resonances
- Further reading
- Answers to problems
- Index
Appendix D - Unstable states and resonances
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Constants of nature, conversion factors and notation
- Glossary of some important symbols
- 1 Prologue
- 2 Leptons and the electromagnetic and weak interactions
- 3 Nucleons and the strong interaction
- 4 Nuclear sizes and nuclear masses
- 5 Ground-state properties of nuclei: the shell model
- 6 Alpha decay and spontaneous fission
- 7 Excited states of nuclei
- 8 Nuclear reactions
- 9 Power from nuclear fission
- 10 Nuclear fusion
- 11 Nucleosynthesis in stars
- 12 Beta decay and gamma decay
- 13 Neutrinos
- 14 The passage of energetic particles through matter
- 15 Radiation and life
- Appendix A Cross-sections
- Appendix B Density of states
- Appendix C Angular momentum
- Appendix D Unstable states and resonances
- Further reading
- Answers to problems
- Index
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- An Introduction to Nuclear Physics , pp. 235 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001