Overview
- Only contemporary textbook on nuclear fission on the market
- Summarizes the basic knowledge and the current state-of-the-art of the theory nuclear fission research
- Didactical presentation of the theory nuclear fission
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 838)
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This book brings together various aspects of the nuclear fission phenomenon discovered by Hahn, Strassmann and Meitner almost 70 years ago. Beginning with an historical introduction the authors present various models to describe the fission process of hot nuclei as well as the spontaneous fission of cold nuclei and their isomers. The role of transport coefficients, like inertia and friction in fission dynamics is discussed. The effect of the nuclear shell structure on the fission probability and the mass and kinetic energy distributions of the fission fragments is presented. The fusion-fission process leading to the synthesis of new isotopes including super-heavy elements is described. The book will thus be useful for theoretical and experimental physicists, as well as for graduate and PhD students.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
H. Krappe: Senior scientist at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, 1966-1998; Visiting Scientist in Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1978-1979; collaboration with R. Nix on mass formulae and nuclear fission; Visiting Professor at the State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, 1979.
K. Pomorski: Professor at the Marie Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin, 1972-(2015); Visiting Scientist in: the Int. Inst. for Nuclear Research in Dubna, 1976-1977; Technische Universität München, 1978-1980; Universität Regensburg, 1984-86; Institute for Nuclear Research in Strasbourg 1991-92; Visiting Professor at: the Technische Universität München, 1997/98 (DFG Fellow); The Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg 2001-2003 (12 months of the P.A.S.T. professeur)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theory of Nuclear Fission
Book Subtitle: A Textbook
Authors: Hans J. Krappe, Krzysztof Pomorski
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23515-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-23514-6Published: 06 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-23515-3Published: 04 February 2012
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 320
Number of Illustrations: 101 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Nuclear Energy
Industry Sectors: Energy, Utilities & Environment