Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Physics, designed as a textbook for graduate students deals, with the size, shape and properties of nuclei, the electric and magnetic moments, the strong nuclear force that binds nucleons, the nuclear structure, various nuclear models the shell model, Nilsson's model, the collective model and unified model radioactive decays such as the alpha, beta and gamma decays, nuclear and heavy ion reactions and synthesis of transuranic elements.

The Strutinsky shell correction, the effect of parity violation in weak interaction, elementary particle interactions with nuclei and the quark structure of the nucleon are also briefly discussed.

Table of Contents

• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction
• Bulk Properties of Nuclei I
• Bulk Properties of Nuclei II
• The Nuclear Force
• The Deuteron
• Nuclear Shell Model
• Collective Models of the Nucleus
• Alpha Decay
• Beta Decay
• Gamma Decay
• Muon Capture
• Nuclear Reactions
• Heavy Ion Reactions
• Sub-Nuclear Physics
• Appendix A H
• Subject Index.

V. Devanathan.: Prof. of Nuclear Physics (Retd.) University of Madras, Chennai