Syllabus/Outline

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This first course in the Nuclear Science and Technology series is given in the Spring Term of 2009 and will emphasize nuclear structure, nuclear transformation with application to nuclear energy, and nuclear reactions.

1. Gross properties of nuclei
2. Experimental
   Accelerators and beam optics
   Detectors and particle identification
   Biological effects of radiation
3. Introduction to nuclear reactions
   Cross section, angual distributions
   Reaction kinematics and Q-values
   Systems of reference
   Energy/angle correlations
   Invariant representations
4. Classical potential scattering
   Deflection functions
   Cross section sum rules
   The interaction radius
   Coulomb scattering
5. Elements of quantal scattering theory
   Quantal transition probabilities, phase space
   Conservation laws and symmetries
   Detailed balance
   Quasi-stationary quantal scattering, WKB
   Born approximation, optical model
6. Heavy-ion reactions
   Elastic scattering
   Transfer reactions
   Fusion
   Fission
7. Nuclear energy
   Power generation
   Nuclear weapons

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