NRE 6756 - RADIATION PHYSICS
Offered Every Fall

Credit Hours: 3-0-3
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing in engineering or related discipline
Course Description: Characteristics of atomic and nuclear radiations, transition probabilities, radioactivity and isotopes, cross sections, electromagnetic radiation, neutrons, and charged particles with matter. Crosslisted with HP 6756.
Textbook: John S. Lilly, Nuclear Physics; First Edition, John Wiley, 2001.
Instructor: C-K Chris Wang (Fall 2003), Cassiano DeOliveria (Fall 2004)
References: James E. Turner, Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection, Wiley Interscience, 1995.
  Kenneth S. Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics, John Wiley and Sons, 1988.
  Irving Kaplan, Nuclear Physics, Addison-Wesley, 1972.
  Arthur Beiser, Concepts of Modern Physics, 5th Edition, McGraw Hill, 1994.
  J. R. Lamarsh, Nuclear Reactory Theory, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1966.
  A. Foderaro, The Elements of Neutron Interaction Theory, the MIT Press, 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
Criteria:

 

Prepared by: C-K Chris Wang
Date: 4-14-97

 

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Revised Juy 2004