Physics of the atomic nucleus

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• Introduction
• Physics of the atomic nucleus
• A first view on nuclear properties
• Particle accelerators
• Particle detection
• Scattering processes
• Shape of the nucleus
• Nuclear decays
• Models of the nucleus
• Nuclear magnetic resonance in medicine
• Nuclear reactions
• Nucleosynthesis
• Nuclear force

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• A first view on nuclear properties
• 2.1 The atomic nucleus and its constitutents
• 2.2 Nuclides
• 2.3 Nuclear mass
• 2.4 The Weizsäcker mass formula
• 2.5 Nuclear spin
• 2.5 Magnetic dipole moments
• 2.6 Electric quadrupole moments

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Discovery of the electron
Joseph John Thomson 1897
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Discovery of X-Strahlen Röntgen
1895
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Discovery of radioactivity Henri
Bequerel 1896
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Discovery of the atomic nucleus
Rutherford, Geiger, Marsden 1908 - 1913
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Discovery of the proton as a product of a nuclear
reaction Ernest Rutherford 1919
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Discovery of the neutron
James Chadwick 1932
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The nuclear chart
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Segrè Nuclei and Particles
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Nuclear binding energy per nucleon
Povh et al., Particles and nuclei
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Charge distribution ? radius of the nucleus
F.W. Bopp Kerne, Hadronen und Elementarteilchen
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Contributions to the nuclear binding energy
Krane Introductory nuclear physics
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Magnetic field at the nucleus (in Tesla),
produced by atomic electron
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Hyperfine splitting of the hydrogen ground
state
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Coupling of I and J governs the magnetic moment
of the atom
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Hyperfine splitting for I3/2, J1/2 (Musiol
/Ranft et al., Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik)
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Effect of a magnetic field on the
hyperfine-splitting of the Na D2-line
(Segrè, Nuclei particles)
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Rabis atomic beam method
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Example of a measurement using Rabis method
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