Photoproduction of pions from complex nuclei has become an investigative tool for (1) the detailed form of the elementary photopion amplitude, (2) the pion-nucleus optical potential, (3) nuclear structure, and (4) off-shell and medium effects on the elementary amplitude in nuclear processes.
This thesis focuses on one of the mechanisms for solving the baryon asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) which is a long-standing open question in both particle physics and cosmophysics.
The present book describes the various processes involved in different stages of the entire nuclear fuel cycle, which include exploration of uranium, thorium, and other nuclear materials, mining and milling of ores, conversion of the separated nuclear material into nuclear grade, fabrication of different types of nuclear fuels and their physical as well as chemical quality control, thermodynamics of the interaction among fuel and fission products during reactor operation, post irradiation examination, spent fuel reprocessing, radioactive waste management, accounting and control of nuclear materials, and safety aspects involved in handling and transportation of nuclear materials.
Using a selection of key experiments performed over the past 30 years or so, we present a discussion of the strikingly counter-intuitive phenomena of the quantum world that defy explanation in terms of everyday "e;common sense"e; reasoning, and we provide the corresponding quantum mechanical explanations with a very elementary use of associated formalism.
This book summarizes the latest advances in nanophotonics for biomedical applications, including biomolecular sensing and imaging, additive fabrications, and biophotonics.
This volume covers aspects of Schr|dinger equation inversion for the purposeof determining interaction potentials in particle, nuclear and atomic physics from experimental data.
Rafelski presents Special Relativity in a language deemed accessible to students without any topical preparation - avoiding the burden of geometry, tensor calculus, and space-time symmetries - and yet advancing in highly contemporary context all the way to research frontiers.
Molekülphysik und Quantenchemie führt systematisch und leicht zugänglich in die Grundlagen der beiden Gebiete ein, wie es zum Verständnis der physikalischen Eigenschaften von Molekülen und der chemischen Bindung erforderlich ist.
Emphasizing a physical understanding with many illustrations, Introduction to the Physics of Highly Charged Ions covers the major areas of x-ray radiation and elementary atomic processes occurring with highly charged ions in hot laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.
Winner of a 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book AwardMolecular symmetry is an easily applied tool for understanding and predicting many of the properties of molecules.
The papers collected in this volume have been presented during a workshop on "e;Electron-Atom and Molecule Collisions"e; held at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Bielefeld in May 1980.
Understanding the Universe: The Physics of the Cosmos from Quasars to Quarks explores how all areas of physics, from the very smallest scales to the very largest, come together to form our current understanding of the Universe.
This book aims to explain radiation from a somewhat different aspect than its traditional image as something that is scary, dangerous, hazardous, and so on, to produce the correct understanding that radiation is carrying energy, and to convince readers that radiation is not "e;scary"e; but controllable and useful.
This dissertation focuses on the calculation of transport coefficients in the matter created in a relativistic heavy-ion collision after chemical freeze-out.
This book discusses method to produce compact microwave plasma by overcoming challenges posed by geometrical cutoff of waveguide and density cutoff of plasma alongwith the properties of such compact plasmas.
1bis text is meant to be a view of the quantum mechanical fonnalism as it develops with the successive introduction of different types oftransfonnations.
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Volume 199, the latest release in a series that merges two long-running serials, Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices).
The principal goal of this book is to provide state-of-the-art coverage of the non-relativistic three- and four-body theories at intermediate and high energy ion-atom and ion-molecule collisions.
This fully updated second edition of The Physics of Phonons remains the most comprehensive theoretical discussion devoted to the study of phonons, a major area of condensed matter physics.
The aim of this Advanced Research Workshop was to bring together Physicists, Applied Mathematicians and Fluid Dynamicists, including very specially experimentalists, to review the available knowledge on the global structural aspects of turbulent flows, with an especial emphasis on open systems, and to try to reach a consensus on their possible relationship to recent advances in the understanding of the behaviour of low dimensional dynamical systems and amplitude equations.
The proceedings covers the conceptual and mathematical problems of classical and quantum field theory and recent developments in quantum groups - especially quantum Poincare groups, the theory and applications of QCD in elementary particle physics and polarization phenomena in high energy physics.
Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly developing field that has emerged at the cross section of the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology.
While quantum theory has been used to study the physical universe with great profit, both intellectual and financial, ever since its discovery eighty-five years ago, over the last fifty years we have found out more and more about the theory itself, and what it tells us about the universe.
This volume contains the lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "e; Frontiers of Chemical Dynamics "e;, held in the Club AIda, Kerner, Turkey, from 5th September to 16th September 1994.
Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory.
Dieses Buch wurde von einem ehemaligen Nuklearinspektor der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEO) und Experten für nukleare Sicherheit geschrieben und bietet einen umfassenden und authentischen Überblick über die aktuellen globalen Entwicklungen im Nuklearbereich.
Quantum Systems in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Theory, Interpretation, and Results, Volume 78, the latest release in the Advances in Quantum Chemistry series presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly developing field that has emerged at the cross section of the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.
The generalization of QCD from three to NC colors, developed in 1974 by Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft, has proved to be an extraordinarily useful and robust theoretical extension for studying the behavior of strong interaction physics.
Quantum and Classical Connections in Modeling Atomic, Molecular and Electrodynamic Systems is intended for scientists and graduate students interested in the foundations of quantum mechanics and applied scientists interested in accurate atomic and molecular models.
The Advanced Research Workshop entitled "e;Weakly Interacting Molecular Pairs: Unconventional Absorbers of Radiation in the At- sphere"e; was held in Abbaye de Fontevraud, France, from April 29 to May 3, 2002.
The workshop aimed to gather the electron scattering community to assess the present status of the experimental and theoretical research program at the electron scattering facilities that will be available in the near future.
