Nuclear radiation physics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Prentice-Hall, Incorporated,
[1972]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ionization and ionization chambers
- Gas-filled pulse counters
- Solid and liquid radiation detectors
- Classical mechanics, relativity, and quantum theory
- Particle-wave relations
- Atomic structure
- Structure of the atomic nucleus
- The ionizing radiations
- Natural radioactivity
- Alpha-particle emission
- Beta particles
- Photon absorption and scattering
- Absorption of charged particles
- Nuclear reactions
- Charged-particle accelerators
- Neutron physics
- Nuclear fission
- Nuclear reactors
- Nuclear fusion
- Cosmic and terrestrial radiation
- Transuranium elements
- Appendix
- Answers to selected problems.