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Andrei Sakharov : quarks and the structure of matter / / Harry J. Lipkin, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
| Andrei Sakharov : quarks and the structure of matter / / Harry J. Lipkin, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
| Autore | Lipkin Harry J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore, : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 148 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina |
539.72167
947.084092 |
| Collana | Gale eBooks |
| Soggetto topico |
Quarks
Nuclear physics - History |
| ISBN |
1-299-46236-7
981-4407-42-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Quarks and Smuggled Postcards from Andrei Sakharov; Publicity to Help Sakharov and Refuseniks; The Harassment of Andrei Sakharov Despite His Scientific Achievements; Continuing Harassment of Andrei Sakharov; Appeals for Humane Treatment of Sakharov; Chapter 2. Andrei Sakharov and the Weizmann Institute; Sakharov's Contributions and Achievements; Chapter 3. TheWeizmann Institute and the Scientific History of Sakharov's Work; Following up the Formula in the Postcard; Why are There Always Too Many Particles?; Elements and Compounds; How To Test The Quark Theory
Updating the 1966 Mass FormulaHow Particles Behave Like Tiny Magnets; Chapter 4. How Scientists Study Nature-Pure and Applied Research; What is Scientific Research?; From Relativistic Quantum Theory to the Human Brain; Appendix; The Impact of Dirac's Positrons on My Own Career; Creative Questioning; Chapter 5. The Building Blocks of Matter-What is a Quark?; The Structure of Matter; How Accelerators are Used as Microscopes; Gaps in the Mendeleev Periodic Table; Why Particles Seem to be Made out of Quarks; Gaps in the Next Mendeleev Table; Excitement About New Particles Why these New Particles were so Confusing-A Historical SurveyThe New Mendeleev Table including all Three Generations; Chapter 6. The Forces of Nature; Gravity and Electromagnetism; Forces and Energy in the Nucleus; The Nuclear Glue; Chapter 7. The Weak Force and the Discovery of the W Particle; Index |
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Andrei Sakharov : quarks and the structure of matter / / Harry J. Lipkin, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
| Andrei Sakharov : quarks and the structure of matter / / Harry J. Lipkin, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
| Autore | Lipkin Harry J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore, : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 148 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina |
539.72167
947.084092 |
| Collana | Gale eBooks |
| Soggetto topico |
Quarks
Nuclear physics - History |
| ISBN |
1-299-46236-7
981-4407-42-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Quarks and Smuggled Postcards from Andrei Sakharov; Publicity to Help Sakharov and Refuseniks; The Harassment of Andrei Sakharov Despite His Scientific Achievements; Continuing Harassment of Andrei Sakharov; Appeals for Humane Treatment of Sakharov; Chapter 2. Andrei Sakharov and the Weizmann Institute; Sakharov's Contributions and Achievements; Chapter 3. TheWeizmann Institute and the Scientific History of Sakharov's Work; Following up the Formula in the Postcard; Why are There Always Too Many Particles?; Elements and Compounds; How To Test The Quark Theory
Updating the 1966 Mass FormulaHow Particles Behave Like Tiny Magnets; Chapter 4. How Scientists Study Nature-Pure and Applied Research; What is Scientific Research?; From Relativistic Quantum Theory to the Human Brain; Appendix; The Impact of Dirac's Positrons on My Own Career; Creative Questioning; Chapter 5. The Building Blocks of Matter-What is a Quark?; The Structure of Matter; How Accelerators are Used as Microscopes; Gaps in the Mendeleev Periodic Table; Why Particles Seem to be Made out of Quarks; Gaps in the Next Mendeleev Table; Excitement About New Particles Why these New Particles were so Confusing-A Historical SurveyThe New Mendeleev Table including all Three Generations; Chapter 6. The Forces of Nature; Gravity and Electromagnetism; Forces and Energy in the Nucleus; The Nuclear Glue; Chapter 7. The Weak Force and the Discovery of the W Particle; Index |
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| Singapore, : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2013 | ||
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A devotion to their science [[electronic resource] ] : pioneer women of radioactivity / / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors
| A devotion to their science [[electronic resource] ] : pioneer women of radioactivity / / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors |
| Autore | Rayner-Canham Marelene F |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Descrizione fisica | xiv, 307 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 539.7/52/0922 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Rayner-CanhamGeoffrey |
| Soggetto topico |
Women physicists
Women chemists Nuclear physics - History Radioactivity - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-85448-8
9786612854484 0-7735-6658-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454534703321 |
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A devotion to their science [[electronic resource] ] : pioneer women of radioactivity / / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors
| A devotion to their science [[electronic resource] ] : pioneer women of radioactivity / / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors |
| Autore | Rayner-Canham Marelene F |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Descrizione fisica | xiv, 307 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 539.7/52/0922 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Rayner-CanhamGeoffrey |
| Soggetto topico |
Women physicists
Women chemists Nuclear physics - History Radioactivity - History |
| ISBN |
1-282-85448-8
9786612854484 0-7735-6658-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- The Overview -- Early Years of Radioactivity -- Pioneer Women of Radioactivity -- The French Group -- Marie Curie: Time Only for Science and Family -- Ellen Gleditsch: Professor and Humanist -- May Sybil Leslie: From Radioactivity to Industrial Chemistry -- Catherine Chamie: Devoted Researcher of the Institut de Radium -- Stefania Maracineanu: Ignored Romanian Scientist -- Alicja Dorabialska: Polish Chemist -- Irène Joliot-Curie: Following in Her Mother's Footsteps -- ... And Some Other Women of the French Group -- The British Group -- Harriet Brooks: From Research Pioneer to Wife and Mother -- Fanny Cook Gates: A Promise Unfulfilled -- Jadwiga Szmidt: A Passion for Science -- Ada Hitchins: Research Assistant to Frederick Soddy -- ... And Some Other Women of the British Group -- The Austro-German Group -- Lise Meitner: The Foiled Nobelist -- Stefanie Horovitz: A Crucial Role in the Discovery of Isotopes -- Marietta Blau: Discoverer of the Cosmic Ray "Stars" -- Elizaveta Karamihailova: Bulgarian Pioneer of Radioactivity -- Elizabeth Rona: The Polonium Woman -- Ida Noddack: Proposer of Nuclear Fission -- ... And Some Other Women of the Austro-German Group -- Epilogue: The End of an Era and a New Generation -- Appendix: Dates of Selected Events in the History of Atomic Science (1895–1940) -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index |
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Rayner-Canham Marelene F
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| Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press | ||
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A devotion to their science [[electronic resource] ] : pioneer women of radioactivity / / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors
| A devotion to their science [[electronic resource] ] : pioneer women of radioactivity / / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors |
| Autore | Rayner-Canham Marelene F |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Descrizione fisica | xiv, 307 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 539.7/52/0922 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Rayner-CanhamGeoffrey |
| Soggetto topico |
Women physicists
Women chemists Nuclear physics - History Radioactivity - History |
| ISBN |
1-282-85448-8
9786612854484 0-7735-6658-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- The Overview -- Early Years of Radioactivity -- Pioneer Women of Radioactivity -- The French Group -- Marie Curie: Time Only for Science and Family -- Ellen Gleditsch: Professor and Humanist -- May Sybil Leslie: From Radioactivity to Industrial Chemistry -- Catherine Chamie: Devoted Researcher of the Institut de Radium -- Stefania Maracineanu: Ignored Romanian Scientist -- Alicja Dorabialska: Polish Chemist -- Irène Joliot-Curie: Following in Her Mother's Footsteps -- ... And Some Other Women of the French Group -- The British Group -- Harriet Brooks: From Research Pioneer to Wife and Mother -- Fanny Cook Gates: A Promise Unfulfilled -- Jadwiga Szmidt: A Passion for Science -- Ada Hitchins: Research Assistant to Frederick Soddy -- ... And Some Other Women of the British Group -- The Austro-German Group -- Lise Meitner: The Foiled Nobelist -- Stefanie Horovitz: A Crucial Role in the Discovery of Isotopes -- Marietta Blau: Discoverer of the Cosmic Ray "Stars" -- Elizaveta Karamihailova: Bulgarian Pioneer of Radioactivity -- Elizabeth Rona: The Polonium Woman -- Ida Noddack: Proposer of Nuclear Fission -- ... And Some Other Women of the Austro-German Group -- Epilogue: The End of an Era and a New Generation -- Appendix: Dates of Selected Events in the History of Atomic Science (1895–1940) -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index |
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Ernest Rutherford and the birth of the atomic age / / by Roberta Baxter
| Ernest Rutherford and the birth of the atomic age / / by Roberta Baxter |
| Autore | Baxter Roberta <1952-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Morgan Reynolds Publishing |
| Disciplina |
530.092
B |
| Soggetto topico |
Physicists - New Zealand
Nuclear physics - History |
| ISBN | 1-59935-275-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | New Zealand boy -- Off to other parts -- New rays and new research -- McGill and Montreal -- Transmutation? -- Winning the nobel -- Atomic models -- Honors and war work -- Back to Cavenish -- Legacy. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Profiles in Science |
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Baxter Roberta <1952->
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| Morgan Reynolds Publishing | ||
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Ernest Rutherford and the explosion of atoms / / J. L. Heilbron
| Ernest Rutherford and the explosion of atoms / / J. L. Heilbron |
| Autore | Heilbron J. L. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2003] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (139 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 539.7/092 |
| Collana | Oxford portraits in science |
| Soggetto topico |
Nobel Prize winners
Nuclear physics - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-802878-4
1-280-56415-6 9786610564156 1-4237-7437-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451611903321 |
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Heilbron J. L.
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2003] | ||
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Ernest Rutherford and the explosion of atoms / / J. L. Heilbron
| Ernest Rutherford and the explosion of atoms / / J. L. Heilbron |
| Autore | Heilbron J. L. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2003] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (139 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 539.7/092 |
| Collana | Oxford portraits in science |
| Soggetto topico |
Nobel Prize winners
Nuclear physics - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-028419-6
0-19-802878-4 1-280-56415-6 9786610564156 1-4237-7437-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cambridge and ray physics -- McGill and the explosion of atoms -- Manchester and the structure of atoms -- War and the promotion of science -- The center of physics. |
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Heilbron J. L.
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2003] | ||
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Ernest Rutherford and the explosion of atoms / / J. L. Heilbron
| Ernest Rutherford and the explosion of atoms / / J. L. Heilbron |
| Autore | Heilbron J. L. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2003] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (139 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 539.7/092 |
| Collana | Oxford portraits in science |
| Soggetto topico |
Nobel Prize winners
Nuclear physics - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-028419-6
0-19-802878-4 1-280-56415-6 9786610564156 1-4237-7437-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cambridge and ray physics -- McGill and the explosion of atoms -- Manchester and the structure of atoms -- War and the promotion of science -- The center of physics. |
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Heilbron J. L.
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2003] | ||
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Nuclear physics 1 : nuclear deexcitations, spontaneous nuclear reactions / / Ibrahima Sakho
| Nuclear physics 1 : nuclear deexcitations, spontaneous nuclear reactions / / Ibrahima Sakho |
| Autore | Sakho Ibrahima |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 pages) |
| Disciplina | 539.70212 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nuclear physics
Nuclear physics - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-119-88146-3
1-119-88148-X 1-119-88147-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Overview of the Nucleus -- 1.1. Discovery of the electron -- 1.1.1. Hittorf and Crookes experiments -- 1.1.2. Perrin and Thomson experiments -- 1.1.3. Millikan experiment -- 1.2. The birth of the nucleus -- 1.2.1. Perrin and Thomson atomic model -- 1.2.2. Geiger and Marsden experiment -- 1.2.3. Rutherford scattering: Planetary atomic model -- 1.2.4. Rutherford's differential effective cross-section -- 1.3. Composition of the nucleus -- 1.3.1. Discovery of the proton -- 1.3.2. Discovery of the neutron -- 1.3.3. Internal structure of nucleons: u and d quarks -- 1.3.4. Isospin -- 1.3.5. Nuclear spin -- 1.3.6. Nuclear magnetic moment -- 1.4. Nucleus dimensions -- 1.4.1. Nuclear radius -- 1.4.2. Nuclear density, skin thickness -- 1.5. Nomenclature of nuclides -- 1.5.1. Isotopes, isobars, isotones -- 1.5.2. Mirror nuclei, Magic nuclei -- 1.6. Nucleus stability -- 1.6.1. Atomic mass unit -- 1.6.2. Segrè diagram, nuclear energy surface -- 1.6.3. Mass defect, binding energy -- 1.6.4. Binding energy per nucleon, Aston curve -- 1.6.5. Separation energy of a nucleon -- 1.6.6. Nuclear forces -- 1.7. Exercises -- 1.8. Solutions to exercises -- Chapter 2. Nuclear Deexcitations -- 2.1. Nuclear shell model -- 2.1.1. Overview of nuclear models -- 2.1.2. Individual state of a nucleon -- 2.1.3. Form of the harmonic potential -- 2.1.4. Shell structure derived from a harmonic potential -- 2.1.5. Shell structure derived from a Woods-Saxon potential -- 2.2. Angular momentum and parity -- 2.2.1. Angular momentum and parity of ground state -- 2.2.2. Angular momentum and parity of an excited state -- 2.3. Gamma deexcitation -- 2.3.1. Definition, deexcitation energy -- 2.3.2. Angular momentum and multipole order of γ-radiation.
2.3.3. Classification of γ-transitions, parity of γ-radiation -- 2.3.4. γ-transition probabi lities, Weisskopf estimates -- 2.3.5. Conserving angular momentum and parity -- 2.4. Internal conversion -- 2.4.1. Definition -- 2.4.2. Internal conversion coefficients -- 2.4.3. Partial conversion coefficients -- 2.4.4. K-shell conversion -- 2.5. Deexcitation by nucleon emission -- 2.5.1. Definition -- 2.5.2. Energy balance -- 2.5.3. Bound levels and virtual levels -- 2.5.4. Study of an example of delayed-neutron emission -- 2.6. Bethe-Weizsäcker semi-empirical mass formula -- 2.6.1. Presentation of the liquid-drop model -- 2.6.2. Bethe-Weizsäcker formula, binding energy -- 2.6.3. Volume energy, surface energy -- 2.6.4. Coulomb energy -- 2.6.5. Asymmetry energy, pairing energy -- 2.6.6. Principle of semi-empirical evaluation of coefficients in Bethe-Weizsäcker form -- 2.6.7. Isobar binding energy, the most stable isobar -- 2.7. Mass parabola equation for odd A -- 2.7.1. Expression -- 2.7.2. Determining the nuclear charge of the most stable isobar from the decay energy -- 2.7.3. Mass parabola equation for even A -- 2.8. Nuclear potential barrier -- 2.8.1. Definition, model of the rectangular potential well -- 2.8.2. Modifying the model of the rectangular potential well -- 2.9. Exercises -- 2.10. Solutions to exercises -- Chapter 3. Alpha Radioactivity -- 3.1. Experimental facts -- 3.1.1. Becquerel's observations, radioactivity -- 3.1.2. Discovery of α radioactivity and β− radioactivity -- 3.1.3. Discovery of the positron -- 3.1.4. Discovery of the neutrino, Cowan and Reines experiment -- 3.1.5. Highlighting α, β and γ radiation -- 3.2. Radioactive decay -- 3.2.1. Rutherford and Soddy's empirical law -- 3.2.2. Radioactive half-life -- 3.2.3. Average lifetime of a radioactive nucleus -- 3.2.4. Activity of a radioactive source -- 3.3. α radioactivity. 3.3.1. Balanced equation -- 3.3.2. Mass defect (loss of matter), decay energy -- 3.3.3. Decay energy diagram -- 3.3.4. Fine structure of α lines -- 3.3.5. Geiger-Nuttall law -- 3.3.6. Quantum model of α emission by tunnel effect -- 3.3.7. Estimating the radioactive half-life, Gamow factor -- 3.4. Exercises -- 3.5. Solutions to exercises -- Chapter 4. Beta Radioactivity, Radioactive Family Tree -- 4.1. Beta radioactivity -- 4.1.1. Experiment of Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie: discovery of artificial radioactivity -- 4.1.2. Balanced equation, β decay energy -- 4.1.3. Continuous β emission spectrum -- 4.1.4. Sargent diagram, β transition selection rules -- 4.1.5. Decay energy diagram -- 4.1.6. Condition of β + emission -- 4.1.7. Decay by electron capture -- 4.1.8. Double β decay, branching ratio -- 4.1.9. Atomic deexcitation, Auger effect -- 4.2. Radioactive family trees -- 4.2.1. Definition -- 4.2.2. Simple two-body family tree -- 4.2.3. Multi-body family tree, Bateman equations -- 4.2.4. Secular equilibrium -- 4.3. Radionuclide production by nuclear bombardment -- 4.3.1. General aspects -- 4.3.2. Production rate of a radionuclide -- 4.3.3. Production yield of a radionuclide -- 4.4. Natural radioactive series -- 4.4.1. Presentation -- 4.4.2. Thorium (4n) family -- 4.4.3. Neptunium (4n + 1) family -- 4.4.4. Uranium-235 (4n +2) family -- 4.4.5. Uranium-238 (4n + 3) family -- 4.5. Exercises -- 4.6. Solutions to exercises -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Index -- EULA. |
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