1st Edition

Nuclear Methods in Science and Technology

By Yuri M. Tsipenyuk Copyright 1997
468 Pages
by CRC Press

468 Pages
by CRC Press

468 Pages
by CRC Press

The application of nuclear physics methods is now widespread throughout physics, chemistry, metallurgy, biology, clinical medicine, geology, and archaeology. Accelerators, reactors, and various instruments that have developed together with nuclear physics have often been found to offer the basis for increasingly productive and more sensitive analytical techniques. Nuclear Methods in Science and... Read more
Nuclear structure. Natural and artificial radioactivity. Nuclear reactions. Uniformities in the passage of nuclear particles through matter. Detectors of nuclear radiation. Slow neutron physics. Nuclear methods for analysis of substance structure and composition. Nuclear imaging. Mossbauer effect. Nuclear physics, geology and archaeology. Radiation effects. Practical applications of heavy ion and muon beams. Bibliography. References. Index.

Biography

P L Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur