Unit 7 : Equations & Terms

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Unit 7 : Equations & Terms#

Terms#

To aid with exam revision below is a list of all terms that you should understand for this unit in the course.

  • Nuclear Reactions, Rutherford, Parent, Daughter, Progeny, Elastic, Inelastic

  • Alpha-Proton, Alpha-n

  • \((n,p)\),\((n,\alpha)\), \((n,n)\), \((n,n\gamma)\).

  • Elastic Scattering, Inelastic reactions, compound reactions, direct reactions

  • Bohr Model, Intermediate Nucleus, Intermediate State Nucleus

  • Activation Reaction, Activated Nucleus, Decay Probability, Final State

  • Excitation Energy, Resonance Uncertainty Principle, Lifetime

  • Virtual Bound States, Virtual Single Particle State

  • Many Particle Excited State Nucleus, Few Particle Virtual State

  • Decay Configurations, Reaction Channels

  • Partial Widths, Total Width, Branching Ratio, Decay Channel, Resonant Peak

  • Breit-Wigner, Gaussian, Half-Maximum, De-Brogli Wavelength

  • High Energy Scattering, Low Energy Scattering, Surface Reactions

  • Charge Exchange Reaction, Pick-up Reaction, Stripping Reaction

  • Excitation Function, Photon Attenuation, Linear Attenuation Co-efficient

  • Mass Attenuation Co-efficient, Photoelectric Effect, Compton Scattering

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