Table of Contents

Introduction.- Basic concepts of Nuclear Physics.- Nuclear Models and Stability of the Nucleus.- Nuclear Reactions.- Nuclear Decays and Fundamental Interactions.- Radioactivity and all that.- Fission.- Fusion.- Nuclear Astrophysics.- Nuclear Cosmology.- Relativistic kinematics.- Accelerators.- Time-dependent perturbation theory.- Nutron transport.- Solutions and Hints for Selected Exercises.- Tables of numerical values.- Table of Nuclei.- References.- Index.

Reviews

The authors are well-regarded scientists who work at the interface of nuclear and particle physics and astrophysics... The text succeeds quite well in its aims.... [T]he authors have found the right balance between presenting nuclear physics as a domain of fundamental research and exploring its applications in neutrino physics, plasma physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.               —A. Baha Balantekin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, in Physics Today