Nuclear Fission and Cluster Radioactivity An Energy-Density Functional Approach /

• Main Authors: Hooshyar, M. A. (Author), Reichstein, I. (Author), Malik, F. B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Nuclear fusion.; Atoms.; Engineering.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Physical Chemistry.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Nuclear Fusion.; Engineering, general.

It is the first application to nuclear physics from energy-density functional method, for which Professor Walter Kohn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The book presents a comprehensive extension of the Bohr-Wheeler theory with the present knowledge of nuclear density distribution function.

Table of Contents:

• A Summary of Observed Data and Pre-Amble
• Energy-Density Functional Formalism and Nuclear Masses
• The Decay Process, Fission Barrier, Half-Lives, and Mass Distributions in the Energy-Density-Functional Approach
• Spontaneous Fission Half-Lives of Fermium and Super-Heavy Elements
• Empirical Barrier and Spontaneous Fission
• Induced Fission
• Hot and Cold Fission
• Isomer Fission
• Cluster Radioactivity
• The Relation Between the Asymptotic Kinetic Energy, and the Condition for the Existence of a Meta-Stable State
• The Expression for Half-Lives of Particles Tunneling Through the Barrier Shown in Fig. A. 2
• Diagonalization of the Coupled Set of Equations Describing Fission.