Nuclear Physics
Series: Methods of experimental physics -- v.5B; Methods of experimental physics
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 905
ISBN-13: 9780080859804
Subjects: Nuclear physics; Nuclear physics -- Handbooks, manuals; Nuclear physics -- Research
Description: Nuclear Physics. Part B.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Nuclear Physics; Copyright Page; Contents, Volume 5, Part B; Contributors to Volume 5, Part B; Contributors to Volume 5, Part A; Contents, Volume 5, Part A; Chapter 2. Methods for the Determination of Fundamental Physical Quantities; 2.3. Determination of Mass of Nuclei and of Individual Particles; 2.4. Determination of Spin, Parity, and Nuclear Moments; 2.5. Determination of the Polarization of Electrons and Photons; 2.6. Determination of Life-Time; 2.7. Determination of Nuclear Reactions; 2.8. Determination of Flux and Densities; title: Chapter 3. Sources of Nuclear Particles and Radiations3.1. Radioactive Sources; 3.2. Artificial Sources; Chapter 4. Beam Transport Systems; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Beam Bending and Focusing Systems; 4.3. Beam Separators; 4.4. Some Examples of Beam Transport Systems; Chapter 5. Statistical Fluctuations in Nuclear Processes; 5.1. Frequency Distributions; 5.2. Statistical Characterization of Data; 5.3. Composite Distributions; 5.4. Tests for Goodness of Fit; 5.5. Applications of Poisson Statistics to Some Instruments Used in Nuclear Physics; 5.6. Useful Inefficient Statistics; Appendix 1; title: 1. Evaluation of Measurement2. Errors; 3. Statistical Methods; 4. Direct Measurements; 5. Indirect Measurement; 6. Preliminary Estimation; 7. Errors of Computation; Appendix 2. Kinematics; 1. Equations for the Lorentz Transformation from the Laboratory System to Center-of-Mass System; The Jacobian for Particle Reactions; 2. Maximum Angle Criterion for the Identification of Outcoming Particles in Fundamental Collisions; 3. Kinematics of Two-Body Decay; 4. Threshold Energies for Associated Production of Unstable Particles; 5. Phase Space Factors for Two- and Three-Particle Final States; title: Appendix 3. Properties of Elementary Particles and Particle Resonance StatesTable 1; Table 2; Table 3; Author Index; Subject Index