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An Introduction To Nuclear And Particle Physics.

It is common practice to teach nuclear physics and particle physics together in an
introductory course and it is for such a course that this book has been written. The
material is presented so that different selections can be made for a short course of
about 25–30 lectures depending on the lecturer’s preferences and the students’
backgrounds. On the latter, students should have taken a first course in quantum
physics, covering the traditional topics in non-relativistic quantum mechanics and
atomic physics. A few lectures on relativistic kinematics would also be useful, but
this is not essential as the necessary background is given in appendix B and is only
used in a few places in the book. I have not tried to be rigorous, or present proofs
of all the statements in the text. Rather, I have taken the view that it is more
important that students see an overview of the subject which for many – possibly
the majority – will be the only time they study nuclear and particle physics. For
future specialists, the details will form part of more advanced courses. Nevertheless,
space restrictions have still meant that it has been necessary to make a
choice of topics covered and doubtless other, equally valid, choices could have
been made. This is particularly true in Chapter 8, which deals with applications of
nuclear physics, where I have chosen just three major areas to discuss. Nuclear and
particle physics have been, and still are, very important parts of the entire subject
of physics and its practitioners have won an impressive number of Nobel Prizes.
For historical interest, I have noted in the footnotes many of the awards for work
related to the field.
Some parts of the book dealing with particle physics owe much to a previous book,
Particle Physics, written with Graham Shaw of Manchester University, and I am
grateful to him and the publisher, JohnWiley and Sons, for permission to adapt some
of thatmaterial for use here. I also thankColinWilkin for comments on all the chapters
of the book, David Miller and Peter Hobson for comments on Chapter 4 and Bob
Speller for comments on the medical physics section of Chapter 8. If errors or
misunderstandings still remain (and any such are of course due tomealone) Iwould be
grateful to hear about them. I have set up a website (www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/
brm/
npbook.html) where I will post any corrections and comments.

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