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By
Michael L'Annunziata, The Montague Group, Technical Services, California, USA.
Description
Radioactivity: Introduction and History provides an introduction to radioactivity from natural and artificial sources
on earth and radiation of cosmic origins. This book answers many questions for the student, teacher, and practitioner as to the origins,
properties, detection and measurement, and applications of radioactivity. Written at a level that most students and teachers can appreciate,
it includes many calculations that students and teachers may use in class work. Radioactivity: Introduction and History also serves
as a refresher for experienced practitioners who use radioactive sources in his or her field of work. Also included are historical accounts
of the lives and major achievements of many famous pioneers and Nobel Laureates who have contributed to our knowledge of the science
of radioactivity.
Audience
Undergraduate/graduate students, teachers and practitioners interested in the basics of radioactivity and nuclear radiation
Contents
Foreword by Prof. Dr. W. Burkart,
Deputy Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna
Preface
Introduction: Radioactivity
and our Well Being
Radioactivity Hall of Fame – Part I
Democritus (c.460-c.370 B.C.), W.C. Rontgen (1845-1923), H.
Becquerel (1852-1908), Pierre (1859-1906) and Marie Curie (1867-1934), P. Villard (1860-1934), E. Rutherford (1871-1937), H.A. Lorentz
(1853-1928), P. Zeeman (1865-1943), J.J. Thomson (1856-1940), P. Lenard (1862-1947)
Chapter 1. Alpha Radiation
I.
Introduction
II. Decay Energies
III. Alpha Particle Interactions with Matter
IV. Alpha Particle Ranges
Radioactivity Hall of
Fame – Part II
F. Soddy (1877-1956), C.T.R. Wilson (1869-1959), F. Joliet (1900-1958) and I. Joliet-Curie (1897-1956), E. Fermi
(1901-1954), W. Pauli (1900-1958), F. Reines (1918-1998) and C. Cowan, Jr. (1919-1974)
Chapter 2. Beta Radiation
I.
Introduction
II. Negatrons
III. Positrons
IV. Beta-particle Absorption and Transmission
V. Stopping Power and Linear Energy Transfer
Radioactivity Hall of Fame – Part III
M. Planck (1858-1947), L. de Broglie (1892-1987), A. Einstein (1879-1955), A.H.
Compton (1892-1962), M. von Laue (1879-1960), Sir W.H. Bragg (1862-1942) and Sir W.L. Bragg (1890-1971), H.G.J. Moseley (1887-1915),
C.G. Barkla (1877-1944), M. Siegbahn (1886-1978), R.A. Millikan (1868-1953)
Chapter 3. Gamma- and X-Radiation – Photons
I. Introduction
II. Dual Nature: Wave and Particle
III. Gamma Radiation
IV. Annihilation Radiation
V. Cherenkov Radiation
VI. X-Radiation
VII. Bremsstrahlung
VIII. Interactions of Electromagnetic Radiation with Matter
Radioactivity Hall of Fame – Part IV
J. Chadwick (1891-1974), L. Meitner (1878-1968 and O. Hahn (1879-1968), L. Szilard (1898-1964)
Chapter 4. Neutron Radiation
I. Introduction
II. Neutron Classification
III. Sources of Neutrons
IV. Interactions of Neutrons with Matter
V. Neutron Attenuation and
Cross Sections
VI. Neutron Decay
Radioactivity Hall of Fame – Part V
N. Bohr (1885-1962), G. Hertz (1887-1975) and
J. Frank (1882-1964), W. Heisenberg (1901-1976), E. Schrodinger (1887-1961), M. Born (1882-1970) and P.A.H. Dirac (1902-1984), C. Davisson
(1881-1958) and G.P. Thomson (1892-1975)
Chapter 5. Atomic Electron Radiation
I. Introduction
II. Internal Conversion
Electrons
III. Auger Electrons
Radioactivity Hall of Fame – Part VI
V.F. Hess (1883-1964), C.D. Anderson (1905-1991),
P.M.S. Blackett (1897-1974), Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981), C.F. Powell (1903-1969), D.A. Glaser (1926-), Pierre Victor Auger (1899-1993)
Chapter 6. Cosmic Radiation
I. Introduction
II. Classification and Properties
III. Showers of the Cosmic Radiation
IV. Cosmic Rays Underground
V. Origins of Cosmic Radiation
VI. Cosmic Background Radiation
VII. Dose from Cosmic Radiation and other
Sources
Radioactivity Hall of Fame – Part VII
S. Ivanovich Vavilov (1891-1951), P. Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904-1990),
I. Mikhailovich Frank (1908-1990) and I. Yevgenyevich Tamm (1895-1971)
Chapter 7. Cherenkov Radiation
I. Introduction
II. Theory and Properties
III. Cherenkov Photons from Gamma-ray Interactions
IV. Particle Identification
V. Applications in Radionuclide
Analysis
Radioactivity Hall of Fame - Part VIII
E.O. Lawrence (1901-1958, J.D. Cockroft (1897-1967) and E.T.S. Walton
(1903-1995), H.A. Bethe (1906-2005), W.F. Libby (1908-1980)
Chapter 8. Radioisotope Decay, Radioactivity Units and Radionuclide
Mass
I. Introduction
II. Half-life
III. General Decay Equations
IV. Secular Equilibrium
V. Transient Equilibrium
VI. No Equilibrium
VII. More Complex Decay Schemes
VIII. Radioactivity Units and Radionuclide Mass
Appendix A - Particle Range-Energy Correlations
Appendix B - Periodic Table of the Elements
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Hardbound, 632 pages, publication date: JUL-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52715-8
ISBN-10: 0-444-52715-X
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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