核物理学

Thegeneralideaofthebookistopresentbasicinformationontheatomicnucleusandthesimpletheoriesthattrytoexplainit.AlthoughthereisreferencetoexperimentsormeasurementswhenIfinditnecessary，thereisnoattempttodescribetheequipmentandmethodsofexperimentalnuclearphysicsinasystematicandconsistentway.Inthesameway，practicalapplicationsofnuclearphysicsarementionedsporadically，butthereisnocommitmenttogivingageneralpanoramaofwhatexistsinthisarea.Intheorderingofthesubjects，Ichosetobeginwithastudyofthebasiccomponentsofthenuclei，theprotonsandneutrons，andofotherparticlesthatcomposethescenarioofnuclearprocesses.Pionsandquarksplayanessentialrolehere，andasummaryoftheirpropertiesispresented.Inchapter1thepropertiesofhadronsaresummarized.Chapters2and3treatthesystemoftwonucleons，thedeuteronandthenucleon-nucleoninteraction，whileinthenextchapterthepropertiesofnucleiwithanynumberofnucleonsisintroduced.Thenuclearmodelsthathavebeendevelopedinanefforttoexplainthesepropertiesaredescribedinchapter5.Chapters6to9workwithnucleartransformations，startingwithageneralstudyofradioactivepropertiesfollowedbythedescriptionofalpha，beta，andgammadecay.Chapters10and11embracethesecondgreatblockofstudyinnuclearphysics，nuclearcollisions，andchapter12treatstheroleofnuclearphysicsforstellarevolutioninseveralcontextsofastrophysics.Chapter13discussestherapidlygrowingfieldofrarenuclearisotopes，short-livednucleifarfromthevalleyofstability.Anadequatelevelforacompleteunderstandingofthisbookcorrespondstoastudentstudyingattheendoaffirstdegreeinphysics，including，besidesbasicphysics，acourseinmodernphysicsandafirstcourseinquantummechanics.Studentsofotherexactsciencesandoftechnologyingeneral，canprofitingoodpartfromthesubjectspresentedinthisbook.