Download Nuclear Physics: Useful Textbooks, Web Resources, and Journals and more Thesis Physics in PDF only on Docsity! Reference textbooks • Krane, Kenneth S., Introductory Nuclear Physics This is the canonical textbook for nuclear physics. There's a reason. • Bertulani, Carlos A., Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell A good overview textbook. A bit more mathematical than Krane. • Casten, Richard F., Nuclear Structure from a Simple Perspective This structure book spends a lot of time on physical intuition development and collective motion. • Lilley, John, Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications This introductory textbook for undergrads is at a lower level than Krane. It is split roughly evenly between basic science and applications. • Thompson, Ian J. and Nunes, Filomena M., Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics A reactions textbook intended for experts or for non-experts with a bit of previous nuclear physics knowledge. Math heavy. • Blatt, John M. and Weisskopf, Victor F., Theoretical Nuclear Physics One of the “classics”. Old, but complete in the topics it does discuss. Useful nuclear physics web resources • National Nuclear Data Center: http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/ This website has a lot of databases with decay schemes (NuDat), levels schemes (ENSDF and XUNDL), reaction cross-sections (ENDF), and compilations of many experimental data sets from all over the world. It also hosts the Nuclear Science References, a compilation and indexing of (almost) all nuclear science papers that you can search by isotope, reaction, author, year, and experiment/theoretical. • IAEA Nuclear Data Services: https://www-nds.iaea.org/ This is a portal to a set of databases that strongly overlap with the NNDC databases, but have some different ones as well. IAEA also has an app for iPhone and Android: Isotope Browser. • Table of Isotopes: http://ie.lbl.gov/toi.html Fewer databases than the previous two resources, but you can download a PDF of the table of isotopes, which can be handy. Nuclear physics journals • Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html • Nature Physics: http://www.nature.com/nphys/index.html • Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/ • Physical Review Letters (PRL): http://journals.aps.org/prl/ • Physics Letters B (PLB): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03702693 • Physical Review C (PRC): http://journals.aps.org/prc/ • Nuclear Physics A (NPA): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03759474 • European Journal of Physics A: http://link.springer.com/journal/10050 • Acta Physica Polonica B: http://www.actaphys.uj.edu.pl/ • Journal of Physics G: http://iopscience.iop.org/0954-3899/ • Nuclear Instruments and Methods A: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01689002 • Nuclear Instruments and Methods B: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0168583X • Nuclear Data Sheets: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00903752 • Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0092640X
