Table of Contents

1 The nuclear atom.- 1.1 Properties of atoms.- 1.2 Radioactivity.- 1.3 Atomic structure and the nucleus.- 1.4 Nuclear constituents.- 2 General properties of the nucleus.- 2.1 Nuclear sizes.- 2.2 Nuclear mass and binding energy.- 2.3 Nuclear stability.- 2.4 Ground and excited states of nuclei.- 2.5 Nuclear spin.- 2.6 Nuclear parity.- 2.7 Nuclear electromagnetic moments.- 3 The internucleon potential.- 3.1 General form of the internucleon potential.- 3.2 The deuteron.- 3.3 Detailed form of the internucleon potential.- 3.4 Merson theory of the internucleon potential.- 4 Models of nuclear structure.- 4.1 The liquid drop model.- 4.2 The nuclear shell model.- 4.3 The collective model.- 4.4 Development of nuclear models.- 5 Nuclear reactions.- 5.1 Energetics.- 5.2 Nuclear reaction cross-section.- 5.3 The experimental approach to nuclear reactions.- 5.4 Nuclear reaction processes.- 5.5 Scattering and absorption.- 5.6 Coulomb excitation.- 5.7 Direct reactions.- 5.8 Compound nucleus reactions.-5.9 Heavy ion reactions.- 5.10 Fission.- 5.11 Fusion and stellar energy.- 5.12 Comment.- 6 Alpha, beta and gamma decay.- 6.1 Nuclear lifetimes and decay probabilities.- 6.2 Natural radioactivity.- 6.3 Alpha decay.- 6.4 Gamma decay.- 6.5 Beta decay.- 7 Elementary particles and their interactions.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Tables of elementary particles.- 7.3 Intrinsic particle properties and conservation laws.- 7.4 Conclusions.- 8 The strong interaction.- 8.1 Non-strange hadrons.- 8.2 The quark structure of hadrons.- 8.3 Additional quarks.- 8.4 The quark-quark interaction.- 9 The weak interaction and unification.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.2 The weak interaction.- 9.3 The electroweak interaction.- 9.4 CP violation.- 9.5 Grand unified theories (GUTs).- References.- Further reading.- Table of physical constants.- Problems.- Answers to problems.

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