Nuclear Reactions and Radiation

Topics

• Provide the students with a solid understanding of the fundamentals of those aspect of low-energy nuclear physics that are most important to applications in such areas as nuclear engineering, nuclear and radiochemistry, geosciences, biotechnology, etc.
• Calculate the consequences of radioactive growth and decay and nuclear reactions. Calculate estimates of nuclear masses and energetics based on empirical data and nuclear models. Calculate estimates of the lifetimes of nuclear states that are unstable to alpha-,beta- and gamma decay and internal conversion based on the theory of simple nuclear models. Use nuclear models to predict low-energy level structure and level energies. Use nuclear models to predict the spins and parities of low-lying levels and estimate their consequences with respect to radioactive decay Use nuclear models to understand the properties of neutron capture and the Breit-Wigner single level formula to calculate cross sections at resonance and thermal energies. Calculate the kinematics of the interaction of photons with matter and apply stopping power to determine the energy loss rate and ranges of charged particles in matter Calculate the energies of fission fragments and understand the charge and mass distributions of the fission products, and prompt neutron and gamma rays from fission

Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes