HP 6756 - RADIATION PHYSICS
Offered Every Fall

Credit Hours: 3-0-3
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing in engineering or related discipline
Catalog Description: Characteristics of atomic and nuclear radiation, transition probabilities, radioactivity and isotopes, cross sections, electromagnetic radiation, neutrons, and charged particle interactions with matter. Crosslisted with NRE 6756.
Textbook: John S. Lilly, Nuclear Physics, First Edition, John Wiley, 2001.
Coordinator: C-K Chris Wang (Fall 2003), Cassiano deOliveira (Fall 2004)
References: The Elements of Neutron Interaction Theory, A. Foderaro, The MIT Press, 1971.
  Nuclear Physics: An Introduction, H. V. Buttlar, Academic Press, 1968.
  The Atomic Nucleus, R. D. Evans, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1955.
  Atomic and Molecular Radiation Physics, L. G. Christophorou, Wiley-Interscience, 1971.
Objectives:
 		 To acquaint students in NE/HP with the theories of nuclear reactions and decays, and interactions of photons, neutrons, and charged particles with matter.
Topics:
1. Review of atomic physics
2. Review of nuclear physics
3. Transition probabilities
4. Radioactive decays and radiations
Alpha, beta, and gamma decays, electron capture, conversion
electron, decay constant, characteristic and bremsstrahlung
x-rays, Auger electrons, fission and fusion reactions, and
kinematics of nuclear reactions and decays
5. Classical and quantum-mechanical derivations of cross sections
6. Interactions of photons with matter
Photoelectric absorption, Compton Scattering, pair production,
Rayleigh, Thomson, and Raman scatterings, and photonuclear
interactions.
7. Interactions of neutrons with matter
Elastic scattering, inelastic scattering and cascade reactions,
radiative capture, charged-particle emission, fission, and
fusion reactions. Effect of target structure and atomic motion.
8. Interactions of charged particles with matter
Elastic, inelastic: excitation, ionization, and bremsstrahlung.
Semi-classical derivation of Bethe's formula of stopping
power.
9. Radiation effects on matter
Performance
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Prepared by: C-K Chris Wang
Date: 4-14-97

 

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Revised July 2004