Overview and Table of Contents for:

RADIATION MECHANICS: Principles & Practice

 

 

(ISBN-13: 978-0-08-045053-7, ISBN-10: 0-08-045053-9)

(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/712864/description#description)

Esam M. A. Hussein, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada (http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/engineering/depts/mechanical/people/hussein.html)       

Elsevier Science, Oxford, 2007.

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OVERVIEW

 

Mechanics is the science of studying energy and forces, and their effects on matter. It involves mechanisms, kinematics, cross sections, and transport. Radiation mechanism describes how various types of radiation interact with different targets (atoms and nuclei).

 

The book addresses the above four aspects of radiation mechanics, integrating them in a single treatise under the framework of radiation mechanics.

 

Key Features:

- Covers all aspects of radiation mechanics

- Helps non-nuclear graduates readily familiarize themselves with radiation

- Integrates and coordinates mechanisms, kinematics, cross sections and transport in one volume

- End of each chapter problems to further assist students in understanding the underlying concepts

- Use of computations and Internet resources included in the problems.

 

A systematic and comprehensive analysis is presented for the interaction mechanisms, their kinematics and probabilities (cross sections), as well as their collective movement (transport).  The more than 30 ways via which radiation can interact with the constituents of matter, and its fields, are discussed, in accordance with the nature of interaction mechanism.

 

Interaction kinematics are analyzed, supported with calculation algorithms, using  relativistic (Einsteinian) and classical (Newtonian)  mechanics, as well as the powerful concept of invariants. The quantum mechanical and electrodynamics foundations of the interaction cross-sections are examined in a straightforward manner that enables understanding of their behavior, without being immersed in detailed and complex manipulations. The radiation transport process and its associated computational methods are covered in a manner that emphasizes the important features of each approach.

 

Problems are provided to enable deeper understanding of the presented topics, which the reader will be able to solve by making use of available internet resources. In addition, a map, in the form of a table, is given so that readers can follow the mechanics of one particular interaction at a time.  The book includes both fundamental and advanced aspects of radiation mechanics in a single source, while providing experts, practitioners and students in nuclear physics and nuclear engineering with a comprehensive reference.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface                                                                                   

 Algorithms

• Relativistic kinematics of a two-body interaction: 2(1,3)4 

• Invariant-based kinematics of a two-body interaction: 2(1,3)4                                                                  

 

1. Mechanisms 

1.1 Introduction 

1.2 Radiation 

1.2.1 Neutral particles 

1.2.2 Charged particles 

1.2.3 Photons 

1.3 Wave–Particle Duality 

1.3.1 Corpuscular nature of waves 

1.3.2 Wave nature of particles 

1.3.3 Uncertainty principle 

1.4 Nuclear/Atomic Fields 

1.4.1 Potential field 

1.4.2 Nuclear strong-force field 

1.4.3 Nuclear weak-force field 

1.4.4 Electromagnetic field 

1.4.5 Quantum states 

1.5 Atom and Nucleus 

1.5.1 Atomic structure 

1.5.2 Nuclear structure 

1.6 Nuclear Decay 

1.6.1 Kinetics 

1.6.2 Statistics 

1.6.3 Alpha decay 

1.6.4 Beta decay 

1.6.5 Gamma decay 

1.6.6 Internal conversion 

1.6.7 Spontaneous fission 

1.6.8 Decay by neutron or proton emission 

1.7 Reactions and Interactions 

1.7.1 Interaction with atomic electrons 

1.7.2 Interaction with electric field of atom 

1.7.3 Nuclear interactions 

1.8 Macroscopic Field 

1.8.1 Transport space 

1.8.2 Particle density and flux 

1.8.3 Atomic/nuclear density 

1.8.4 Interaction rate 

1.9 Problems 

 

2. Collision Kinematics 

2.1 Overview 

2.2 Center-of-Mass System  

2.3 Relativity 

2.3.1 Special theory of relativity 

2.3.2 Center of relativistic mass 

2.3.3 Lorentz transformation of momentum and energy 

2.4 Conservation Laws 

2.4.1 Stoichiometric conservation

2.4.2 Intrinsic conservation

2.4.3 Kinematical conservation

2.5 Einsteinian Kinematics

2.5.1 Two-body kinematics

2.5.2 Analysis using invariants

2.5.3 Non-elastic interactions

2.5.4 Non-relativistic approximation

2.6 Newtonian Kinematics

2.7 Specific Interactions

2.7.1 Elastic scattering

2.7.2 Inelastic scattering

2.7.3 Non-elastic collisions

2.8 Electromagnetic Interactions

2.8.1 Coulomb scattering

2.8.2 Radiative collisions

2.8.3 Diffraction

2.9 Problems

 

3. Cross Sections 

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Nuclear Cross-Section Models

3.2.1 Optical model

3.2.2 Compound nucleus

3.2.3 Continuum theory

3.2.4 Evaporation

3.2.5 Stripping

3.2.6 Photonuclear reactions

3.2.7 Nucleonic collisions

3.3 Neutron Cross Sections

3.3.1 Elastic scattering

3.3.2 Inelastic scattering

3.3.3 Radiative capture

3.3.4 Fission

3.3.5 Charged-particle production

3.3.6 Energy and angular distribution

3.3.7 Thermal neutrons

3.4 Electrodynamics

3.4.1 Quantum electrodynamics

3.4.2 Feynman diagrams

3.5 Photon Cross Sections

3.5.1 Thomson scattering

3.5.2 Compton scattering

3.5.3 Rayleigh scattering

3.5.4 Diffraction

3.5.5 Photoelectric effect

3.5.6 Pair production

3.5.7 Triplet production

3.5.8 Delbruck scattering

3.6 Charged-Particle Cross Sections

3.6.1 Coulomb scattering

3.6.2 Rutherford scattering

3.6.3 Mott scattering

3.6.4 Bremsstrahlung

3.6.5 Moller scattering 

3.6.6 Bhabha scattering 

3.6.7 Pair annihilation 

3.7 Data Libraries and Processing 

3.7.1 Libraries 

3.7.2 Processing and manipulation 

3.7.3 Compound and mixture cross sections 

3.8 Problems 

 

4. Transport 

4.1 Boltzmann Transport Equation 

4.1.1 Basics 

4.1.2 Transport in void 

4.1.3 Divergence law 

4.1.4 Attenuation law 

4.1.5 Point kernel 

4.1.6 Diffusion theory 

4.1.7 Adjoint transport equation 

4.2 Modal Solution Methods

4.2.1 P1 approximation 

4.2.2 Diffusion equation 

4.2.3 Numerical solution and computer codes 

4.3 Nodal Solution Methods 

4.3.1 Discritization of directions: discrete ordinates 

4.3.2 Discretization of time, energy, and space 

4.3.3 Multigroup approximation 

4.3.4 Discretization of transport equation 

4.3.5 Curved geometries

4.3.6 Source term 

4.3.7 Solution of Sn equations 

4.3.8 Computer codes 

4.4 Stochastic Methods 

4.4.1 Introduction 

4.4.2 Random variables and statistical basis

4.4.3 Abstract analysis 

4.4.4 Random numbers 

4.4.5 Random number generation 

4.4.6 Sampling 

4.4.7 Particle transport 

4.4.8 Example 

4.4.9 Computer codes 

4.5 Transport of Charged Particles 

4.5.1 Special features 

4.5.2 Stopping power and range 

4.5.3 Transport 

4.6 Problems 

 

Bibliography 

Constants and Units 

Useful Web Sites 

Glossary 

Index 

 

 

 

Last updated: January-5-11.