514 Index
nuclide 11
Oklo prehistoric reactor 323
optical theorem 170
pair production 266
parity 25, 194
– and shell model 86
– non-conservation of 46, 200, 212
partial wave amplitudes 166
particle identification 263, 264
particle-antiparticle asymmetry 422
Pauli principle 9, 55, 70
Penning traps 17, 22
perturbation theory 129, 451
PET scans 274
phase shifts 166
phase space 183
photoelectric absorption 266
photomultiplier tubes (PMT) 263
photons 120, 266
– detectors 268
pions 11, 120
Planck mass 405
plasma 339
Pressurized water reactors (PWR)
309
proportional counters 262
proton 9
quadrupole moment 31, 37, 58, 59, 64
quantum chromodynamics 39, 41
quark–gluon plasma 120, 362
quarks 10, 56, 57, 157, 221, 228
– mixing 232
quasi-stellar objects (QSOs), quasars
431
radiative decays 187
radioactive beams 256
radioactivity 1, 246, 285
– artificial 254
– cosmogenic 252
– dating 274
– dosimetry 270
– fossil 247
– medical applications of 273
radiochemistry 387
radiotoxicity 271, 272
radon 250
range 261
Rayleigh scattering 266
reaction rate 114, 335, 416, 417
recombination 402, 409
relativity 441
resonances 115, 157, 160, 338
rotation bands 28, 59
Rutherford scattering 124, 133
Rutherford, E. 1
SAGE 389
Saha equation 187, 428, 437
saturation 14, 16, 35
Saxon–Woods potential 70
scale factor a(t) 407
scattering
– neutron–nucleus 115
– coherent 151
– deep-inelastic 157
– elastic 115
– electron–nucleon 153
– in quantum mechanics 126
– inelastic 117
– neutrino 121
– of quantum wave packets 136
– of two particles 143
– on a bound particle 146
– on a charge distribution 149
– potential 121
– quasi-elastic 135
scattering length 166
Schmidt limit 104, 105
scintillators 263, 269
selection rules 27
– beta-decay 206
– radiative-decay 190
shell model 81, 378
sievert (Sv) 270
silicon-diode detectors 269
SNO 384
spallation 119, 319
spherical square-well 164
spin 9, 25, 194
– and shell model 86
spin-orbit interaction 85
Standard Model of particle physics
175
stars
– classical 352
– degenerate 359
– evolution 363
– neutron 359
stimulated emission 186
stopping power 260
strong interactions 10, 29, 39, 41
super-allowed decays 205
super-deformed nuclei 59