Description
Book SynopsisThis book is intended for undergraduate or beginning graduate students. The net outcome is material to cover one integrated course on Nuclear and Particle Physics as well as Astrophysics. There are appear many advantages in teaching all these subjects together. Furthermore, such an arrangement may be suitable for the cases of only few students interested in anyone of them separately. Understanding the similarities between atoms, nuclei and other hadrons and applying analogs from one to the other, have been very effective in research and they have lead to the development of all these fields.
Table of ContentsBrief Elementary Particle History; Nuclear Physics; Introduction to Special Theory of Relativity; Resonance-Decay Widths; Elementary Scattering Theory; Nuclear Instability; Nuclear Astrophysics; Applications of Nuclear Science; Introductory Particle Physics; The Quark Model for Hadrons; Experimental Devices; Neutrino Physics-Neutrino Oscillations; Weak Interactions — Beta Decays-Neutrino Interactions; Appendices: Aspects of the Shell Model Wave Functions-Reduced Matrix Elements; Construction of Wave Functions of Given Symmetry: SU(2) and SU(3)-Young Tableaux; Elements of the Dirac Theory;
