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Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Nuclear structure physics
The textbook begins with exercises related to radioactive sources
and decay schemes. The problems covered include series decay and
how to determine the frequency and energy of emitted particles in
disintegrations. The next chapter deals with the interaction of
ionizing radiation, including the treatment of photons and charged
particles. The main focus is on applications based on the knowledge
of interaction, to be used in subsequent work and courses. The
textbook then examines detectors and measurements, including both
counting statistics and properties of pulse detectors. The chapter
that follows is dedicated to dosimetry, which is a major subject in
medical radiation physics. It covers theoretical applications, such
as different equilibrium situations and cavity theories, as well as
experimental dosimetry, including ionization chambers and solid
state and liquid dosimeters. A shorter chapter deals with
radiobiology, where different cell survival models are considered.
The last chapter concerns radiation protection and health physics.
Both radioecology and radiation shielding calculations are covered.
The textbook includes tables to simplify the solutions of the
exercises, but the reader is mainly referred to important websites
for importing necessary data.
This volume, prepared by an acknowledged expert on the Manhattan
Project, gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects
of the project at a level accessible to an undergraduate college or
advanced high-school student familiar with some basic concepts of
energy, atomic structure, and isotopes. The text describes the
underlying scientific discoveries that made nuclear weapons
possible, how the project was organized, the daunting challenges
faced and overcome in obtaining fissile uranium and plutonium, and
in designing workable bombs, the dramatic Trinity test carried out
in the desert of southern New Mexico in July 1945, and the bombings
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A pioneering treatise presenting how the new mathematical
techniques of holographic duality unify seemingly unrelated fields
of physics. This innovative development morphs quantum field
theory, general relativity and the renormalisation group into a
single computational framework and this book is the first to bring
together a wide range of research in this rapidly developing field.
Set within the context of condensed matter physics and using boxes
highlighting the specific techniques required, it examines the
holographic description of thermal properties of matter, Fermi
liquids and superconductors, and hitherto unknown forms of
macroscopically entangled quantum matter in terms of general
relativity, stars and black holes. Showing that holographic duality
can succeed where classic mathematical approaches fail, this text
provides a thorough overview of this major breakthrough at the
heart of modern physics. The inclusion of extensive introductory
material using non-technical language and online Mathematica
notebooks ensures the appeal to students and researchers alike.
In this full-color edition of Corking the Nuclear Genie, Edward
Esko and Alex Jack present a fresh approach to solving the problem
of nuclear waste. A new and breakthrough paradigm of physics and
ecology for the 21st century.
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