Encyclopedia of Nuclear Physics and its Applications

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Reinhard Stock
John Wiley & Sons, Sep 13, 2013 - Science - 796 pages
This book fills the need for a coherent work combining carefully reviewed articles into a comprehensive overview accessible to research groups and lecturers. Next to fundamental physics, contributions on topical medical and material science issues are included.
 

Contents

Formula
Electrostatic Accelerators
Glossary
Glossary
Exotic Nuclear Beam Facilities
Superheavy Nuclei
Nuclear Spectroscopy and the Spheres
y Optics and Nuclear Photonics
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and
Nuclear Medicine
Cancer Therapy with Ion Beams
The Physics of Nuclear Power from Fission
Fundamentals of Controlled Nuclear Fission
Nuclear Reactions
Further Readings
Transmutation of HighLevel Nuclear Waste

The Proton
Physics of the Neutron
Neutrino Astrophysics
Nuclear Astrophysics
Relativistic NucleusNucleus Collisions
References
Supernovae and Their Nucleosynthesis
Fusion Energy by Magnetic Confinement
of Fusion Energy
Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion
Index
Neutron Stars
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Professor Reinhard Stock has worked for many years at the Nuclear Research Centre CERN in Geneva, where he performed research on the early universe's plasma state as derived from the results of collision experiments. In 1989 he was awarded the Leibniz Prize. Until his retirement he was professor at the High Energy and Particle Physics Department of the Goethe University of Frankfurt. He has authored more than 180 papers.

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