Nuclear Physics : Theory and Experiments

This book is presented as a two semester undergraduate-level course. Most of its contents can be understood by students who have had one year of quantum mechanics. Some chapters may also be useful to advanced undergraduate students. Certain parts can also serve as reference material. In this new edition of the book two appendices have been added to update the information on Cross-Section for a Nuclear Reaction and another on Wigner-Eckart Theorem. Some of the salient features: Various methods for determining the nuclear radius are examined with special emphasis on the more accurate and recent methods, such as electron scattering. General expressions for electric and magnetic multipoles are given. The nuclear mass and nuclear fission are described by semi-empirical formulas. The two-nuclear interaction in considerable detail by treating its different aspects and the nuclear shell-model are discussed in detail. Certain standard mathematical expressions, with their derivations, appear in the Appendix.