Nuclear and Radiation Physics 1
Code | Completion | Credits | Range |
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16JR1 | Z,ZK | 6 | 4+2 |
- Course guarantor:
- Lecturer:
- Tutor:
- Supervisor:
- Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation
- Synopsis:
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Concise review of opinions about the atom and the nucleus, physical
quantities in the micro- and macroscopic world, relativistic and quantum
particle properties, cross section, basic characteristics of the atomic
nucleus, measurement of nuclear mass, binding energy of the nucleus, nuclear
radius, nuclear moments, basic models of nuclei. Basic particles of ionizing
radiation, interaction of various radiation types with a matter, penetration
of particle beams through material, radiation effects in matter.
- Requirements:
- Syllabus of lectures:
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1.Concise review of historic development of nuclear and radiation physics
2.The most important problems and trends in contemporary nuclear and
sub-nuclear physics
3.Physical quantities in macro- and microcosmos
4.Relativistic and quantum physics
5.Measurements in microcosmos, cross sections
6.Basics characteristics of atomic nuclei
7.Methods of determination of atomic and nuclear masses, mass of a the
nucleons
8.Binding energy of nuclei and their stability, nucleon binding energy
9.Binding energy of parts of a nucleus to this nucleus, nucleon stability
10.Methods for determining dimensions of nuclei
11.Nuclear moments
12.Further quantum characteristics of nuclei (statistics, parity, isotopic
spin)
13.Nuclear models - general characteristics
14.Liquid drop model of a nucleus
15.Nuclear shell model
16.Unified nuclear model
17.Basic properties of the most important particles in radiation physics
18.General characteristics of interaction of ionising radiation with a
matter
19.Interaction of heavy charged particles with a matter, linear stopping
power, range
20.Energy loses of electrons transmitting through a matter
21.Cerenkov radiation
22.Processes if interaction of X- and gamma-rays with a matter
23.Transmission of photon beams through a matter, build-up factor
24.Attenuation, energy transfer and energy absorption coefficient
25.Processes of neutron interactions in a matter
26.Quantities describing behaviour of neutrons in a matter
27.Energy states of electrons in a matter
28.Effects caused in a matter by ionising radiation - ionisation and
excitation, heat production
- Syllabus of tutorials:
- Study Objective:
- Study materials:
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L. Musílek: Úvod do fyziky ionizujícího záření, Praha, SNTL 1979
K.N. Muchin: Eksperimental'naja jaděrnaja fizika I. Moskva, Eněrgoatomizdat
1983
S. Usačev a kol.: Experimentálna jadrová fyzika. Bratislava, Alfa 1982
J.S. Lilley: Nuclear Physics - Principles and Applications. Chichester,
Wiley 2001
- Note:
- Further information:
- No time-table has been prepared for this course
- The course is a part of the following study plans: