Appendix K: Index

Entries are listed alphabetically. Chapter numbers indicate where each term appears significantly in the text. Bold chapter numbers indicate primary treatment.

A

Aarhus convention, Ch. 28 Ab initio nuclear theory, Ch. 3, Ch. 33 Accelerators, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 30 Actinide series, Ch. 4, Ch. 11, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Activation analysis, Ch. 16, Ch. 28 Activity (radioactivity), Ch. 12, Ch. 27, Ch. 29 Adiabaticity parameter, Ch. 9, Ch. 21 AGATA (detector array), Ch. 9, Ch. 30 Alaga rules, Ch. 8, Ch. 9 ALARA principle, Ch. 29 Alpha decay, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 13, Ch. 29 Alpha particle, Ch. 1, Ch. 13, Ch. 21 Alpha therapy, targeted, Ch. 27 AME2020 (Atomic Mass Evaluation), Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 4, Ch. 35 Analog state, isobaric, Ch. 2, Ch. 6 Angular correlation, gamma-gamma, Ch. 9 Angular momentum, coupling, Ch. 5, Ch. 6 Angular momentum, orbital, Ch. 5, Ch. 6 Angular momentum, total, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7 Anharmonicity (vibrational), Ch. 8 Annihilation, positron, Ch. 14, Ch. 16, Ch. 27 Antineutrino, Ch. 14, Ch. 24, Ch. 32 Antisymmetrization, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7 Argonne v18 potential, Ch. 3 Astrophysical S-factor, Ch. 21, Ch. 22 Asymmetry energy, Ch. 4, Ch. 25 Asymptotic normalization coefficient, Ch. 3, Ch. 19 Atomic mass unit (u), Ch. 1, Ch. 2

B

B(E2) values, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10 B(M1) values, Ch. 9 Backbending, Ch. 8, Ch. 7 Band crossing, Ch. 8 Band termination, Ch. 8 Barn (unit), Ch. 1, Ch. 17 Bateman equations, Ch. 12 BCS theory (nuclear pairing), Ch. 7, Ch. 8 Becquerel (unit), Ch. 12, Ch. 29 Beta decay, Ch. 4, Ch. 12, Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Beta spectrum, Ch. 14 Bethe, Hans, Ch. 16, Ch. 22 Bethe-Bloch formula, Ch. 16, Ch. 27 Bethe-Weizsacker formula, see Semi-empirical mass formula Big Bang nucleosynthesis, Ch. 3, Ch. 24 Binding energy, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 6 Binding energy per nucleon (B/A), Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 22 Bohr, Aage, Ch. 7, Ch. 8 Bohr, Niels (compound nucleus), Ch. 17, Ch. 18 Bohr Hamiltonian, Ch. 8 Bohr magneton, Ch. 2 Bohr model of nucleus (compound), Ch. 18 Bohr radius, Ch. 1, Ch. 2 Bohr-Wheeler fission theory, Ch. 20 Borromean nuclei, Ch. 2, Ch. 10 Bose symmetry (phonons), Ch. 8 Bragg peak, Ch. 16, Ch. 27 Branching ratio, Ch. 12, Ch. 9 Breit-Wigner formula, Ch. 17, Ch. 18 Bremsstrahlung, Ch. 16

C

Calcium isotopes, Ch. 1, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 10 Carbon-12, Hoyle state, Ch. 9, Ch. 22 Carbon-14 dating, Ch. 12, Ch. 29 Center-of-mass frame, Ch. 1, Ch. 17 Centrifugal barrier, Ch. 10, Ch. 13, Ch. 17 Chadwick, James, Ch. 1 Chain reaction, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Charge independence, Ch. 2, Ch. 3 Charge radius, nuclear, Ch. 2, Ch. 10 Charge symmetry, Ch. 3 Chart of nuclides, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 10 Chernobyl accident, Ch. 26, Ch. 29 Chiral effective field theory, Ch. 3, Ch. 33 Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 8, Ch. 9 Closed shells, see Magic numbers Cluster radioactivity, Ch. 13 CNO cycle, Ch. 21, Ch. 22 Coester band, Ch. 3 Cold fusion (SHE synthesis), Ch. 11 Collective motion, Ch. 8 Collective model, see Bohr Hamiltonian Color charge, Ch. 31 Compound nucleus, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 20 Compton scattering, Ch. 16 Confinement (QCD), Ch. 31 Configuration mixing, Ch. 7, Ch. 10 Conserved vector current (CVC), Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Continuous slowing down approximation, Ch. 16 Control rods, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Conversion electron, see Internal conversion Coolant (reactor), Ch. 26 Cooper pairs (nuclear), Ch. 7 Core polarization, Ch. 7, Ch. 9 Coriolis force (rotating nuclei), Ch. 8 Cosmic rays, Ch. 29 Coulomb barrier, Ch. 11, Ch. 13, Ch. 17, Ch. 21 Coulomb energy (SEMF), Ch. 4 Coulomb excitation, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 30 Coulomb wave functions, Ch. 13, Ch. 17 Coupling, j-j, Ch. 5, Ch. 6 Coupling, L-S, Ch. 5 Critical mass, Ch. 20, Ch. 28 Criticality, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Cross section, Ch. 1, Ch. 17, Ch. 18 Curie (unit), Ch. 12 CVC hypothesis, see Conserved vector current Cyclotron, Ch. 27, Ch. 30

D

D-state admixture (deuteron), Ch. 3 Daughter nucleus, Ch. 12, Ch. 13 Decay chain, Ch. 12, Ch. 13 Decay constant, Ch. 12 Decay law (exponential), Ch. 12 Decommissioning, Ch. 26 Decoupling parameter ($K = 1/2$), Ch. 8 Deformation, nuclear, Ch. 2, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 10 Deformation parameter ($\beta_2$), Ch. 2, Ch. 8, Ch. 9 Delayed neutrons, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Delta function interaction, Ch. 7 Density functional theory, nuclear, Ch. 7, Ch. 25, Ch. 33 Density of states, nuclear level, Ch. 5, Ch. 18 Deuterium bottleneck, Ch. 24 Deuteron, Ch. 3 Deuteron, magnetic moment, Ch. 3 Deuteron, quadrupole moment, Ch. 3 Diffraction (electron scattering), Ch. 1, Ch. 2 Diffuseness (nuclear surface), Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 6 Dineutron correlation, Ch. 10 Diproton, Ch. 3 Direct reactions, Ch. 17, Ch. 19 Dirty bomb, Ch. 28 Doppler broadening (detector), Ch. 9, Ch. 30 Doppler shift attenuation method (DSAM), Ch. 9 Dose (radiation), Ch. 16, Ch. 27, Ch. 29 Dosimetry, Ch. 29 Double beta decay, Ch. 4, Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Doubly magic nuclei, Ch. 4, Ch. 6, Ch. 10, Ch. 11 Drip lines, Ch. 4, Ch. 10, Ch. 33 DWBA (distorted-wave Born approximation), Ch. 19

E

E0 transition, Ch. 5, Ch. 9 E1 transition, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 15 E2 transition, Ch. 5, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 15 Effective charge, Ch. 7, Ch. 9 Effective field theory, see Chiral effective field theory Effective g-factor, Ch. 6 Effective range expansion, Ch. 3 Electron capture, Ch. 14, Ch. 22 Electron scattering, Ch. 1, Ch. 2 Electromagnetic transitions, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 15 Element 118, see Oganesson ENDF/B (nuclear data library), Ch. 18, Ch. 26, Ch. 35 Energy loss, charged particles, see Bethe-Bloch formula Enrichment, uranium, Ch. 20, Ch. 26, Ch. 28 ENSDF (Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File), Ch. 2, Ch. 9, Ch. 35 Environmental radiation, Ch. 29 Equation of state, nuclear, Ch. 3, Ch. 25, Ch. 33 Equilibrium, radioactive, Ch. 12 Even-even nuclei ($J^\pi = 0^+$), Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8 Even-odd staggering, Ch. 4, Ch. 7 Exchange force, Ch. 3 Excited states, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9 Exotic nuclei, Ch. 10 Exponential decay law, Ch. 12

F

Facilities, nuclear physics, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 30 FDG (fluorodeoxyglucose), Ch. 27 Fermi, Enrico, Ch. 14, Ch. 18, Ch. 20 Fermi decay, see Beta decay, Fermi transition Fermi distribution (nuclear density), Ch. 1, Ch. 2 Fermi energy (nuclear), Ch. 4, Ch. 25 Fermi function (beta decay), Ch. 5, Ch. 14 Fermi gas model, Ch. 4, Ch. 6 Fermi transition (beta decay), Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Fermi's golden rule, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 14 Feshbach projection formalism, Ch. 18 Fine structure (alpha decay), Ch. 13 Fissile material, Ch. 20, Ch. 26, Ch. 28 Fissility parameter, Ch. 4, Ch. 20, Ch. 11 Fission, nuclear, Ch. 4, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Fission barrier, Ch. 20, Ch. 11 Fission fragments, Ch. 20 Fission products, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Fission, spontaneous, Ch. 11, Ch. 20 Flerovium ($^{298}$Fl), Ch. 4, Ch. 11 Fluorescence yield, Ch. 16 Flux (neutron), Ch. 18, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Form factor (charge), Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 31 Four-factor formula, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 FRIB (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams), Ch. 10, Ch. 19, Ch. 30, Ch. 33 ft-value, Ch. 14 Fuel cycle, nuclear, Ch. 26 Fuel rod, Ch. 26 Fukushima accident, Ch. 26, Ch. 29 Fusion, nuclear, Ch. 1, Ch. 17, Ch. 21, Ch. 22 Fusion, thermonuclear, Ch. 21

G

g-factor, nuclear, Ch. 2, Ch. 6 Gamma band, Ch. 8 Gamma decay, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 15 Gamma-ray detector (HPGe), Ch. 9, Ch. 16, Ch. 30 Gamow, George, Ch. 13, Ch. 21 Gamow peak, Ch. 21, Ch. 22 Gamow-Teller transition, Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Geiger-Marsden experiment, Ch. 1 Geiger-Muller counter, Ch. 16 Geiger-Nuttall law, Ch. 4, Ch. 13 Gen IV reactors, Ch. 26 Giant dipole resonance (GDR), Ch. 9, Ch. 17 Giant resonances, Ch. 9 Gluon, Ch. 31 Gravitational waves (GW170817), Ch. 23, Ch. 25 Gray (unit), Ch. 16, Ch. 29 GRETINA/GRETA, Ch. 9, Ch. 30 Ground state, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7 GSI (Darmstadt), Ch. 11, Ch. 30 GW170817, see Gravitational waves

H

Hafnium isomers, Ch. 7 Half-life, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14 Half-value layer, Ch. 16 Halo nuclei, Ch. 2, Ch. 10 Harmonic oscillator (nuclear), Ch. 6 Hartree-Fock, Ch. 7, Ch. 33 Hauser-Feshbach theory, Ch. 18 Heavy-ion reactions, Ch. 11, Ch. 17, Ch. 30 Helium-3, Ch. 2, Ch. 3 Helium-4, Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 5, Ch. 13, Ch. 21, Ch. 22 Helium burning, Ch. 22 Hindrance factor, Ch. 7, Ch. 9 Hofstadter, Robert, Ch. 2 Hole state, Ch. 6 Hot fusion (SHE synthesis), Ch. 11 Hoyle state, Ch. 9, Ch. 22 Hydrogen atom, nuclear analog, Ch. 3 Hydrogen burning, Ch. 21, Ch. 22 Hyperon, Ch. 25

I

IAEA safeguards, Ch. 28 IBA (Interacting Boson Approximation), see Interacting Boson Model ICF (inertial confinement fusion), Ch. 21 Identical particles, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7 Impact parameter, Ch. 1 Implosion (weapons), Ch. 28 In-flight fragmentation, Ch. 10, Ch. 30 Independent particle model, see Shell model Internal conversion, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 15 Internal conversion coefficient, Ch. 9, Ch. 15 Interacting Boson Model (IBM/IBA), Ch. 8 Intrinsic quadrupole moment, Ch. 2, Ch. 8, Ch. 9 Iodine-131, Ch. 12, Ch. 27, Ch. 29 Ion chamber, Ch. 16 Iron peak, Ch. 4, Ch. 22 Irrotational flow, Ch. 8 Island of inversion, Ch. 6, Ch. 10 Island of stability, Ch. 4, Ch. 11, Ch. 33 Isobar, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 14 Isobaric analog state, see Analog state Isobaric multiplet mass equation (IMME), Ch. 2, Ch. 4 ISOL technique, Ch. 10, Ch. 30 ISOLDE, Ch. 2, Ch. 10, Ch. 30 Isomer, nuclear, Ch. 7, Ch. 15 Isospin, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 14 Isotone, Ch. 1 Isotope, Ch. 1 Isotope shift, Ch. 2 ITER, Ch. 21

J

j-j coupling, Ch. 5, Ch. 6 Jensen, J. H. D., Ch. 6

K

K-isomer, Ch. 7 K quantum number, Ch. 7, Ch. 8 K/L ratio (conversion), Ch. 9, Ch. 15 KATRIN experiment, Ch. 5, Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Kilonova, Ch. 23 Kinematics, nuclear reaction, Ch. 17 Knockout reaction, Ch. 19, Ch. 10 Krane textbook, Ch. 1 (Preface) Kurie plot, Ch. 14

L

Lattice QCD, Ch. 31, Ch. 33 Lawson criterion, Ch. 21 Lead-208, Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9 Level density, nuclear, Ch. 5, Ch. 18 Level scheme, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9 Lifetime, nuclear state, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 15 Linear energy transfer (LET), Ch. 16, Ch. 27 Linear no-threshold model (LNT), Ch. 29 Liquid drop model, Ch. 4, Ch. 20 Lithium-6, Ch. 2, Ch. 3 Lithium-7, Ch. 6 Lithium-11 (halo), Ch. 2, Ch. 10 Lithium problem (BBN), Ch. 24 log ft, see ft-value Lutetium-177-PSMA, Ch. 27

M

M1 transition, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 15 M4 transition, Ch. 7, Ch. 15 Magic numbers, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 10 Magnetic moment, nuclear, Ch. 2, Ch. 6 Magnetic rigidity, Ch. 10, Ch. 30 Manhattan Project, Ch. 20, Ch. 28 Mass defect, Ch. 1, Ch. 4 Mass excess, Ch. 2, Ch. 4 Mass formula, see Semi-empirical mass formula Mass number (A), Ch. 1 Mass parabola, Ch. 4, Ch. 14 Mass spectrometry (Penning trap), Ch. 2, Ch. 30 Mayer, Maria Goeppert, Ch. 6 Mean field, Ch. 6, Ch. 7 Mean free path, Ch. 16, Ch. 18 Mean lifetime, Ch. 12 Medical applications, see Nuclear medicine Meitner, Lise, Ch. 20 Meson exchange, Ch. 3 Meson, pion, Ch. 3, Ch. 31 Mirror nuclei, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 6, Ch. 14 Mixing ratio (E2/M1), Ch. 9 Moderator, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Moment of inertia, Ch. 7, Ch. 8 Monopole interaction, Ch. 7, Ch. 10 Monte Carlo (radiation transport), Ch. 16, Ch. 27 Mossbauer effect, Ch. 15 Multipole radiation, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 15 Muonic atom, Ch. 2

N

National Ignition Facility (NIF), Ch. 21 Neutrinoless double beta decay, Ch. 2, Ch. 14, Ch. 32, Ch. 33 Neutrino, Ch. 14, Ch. 22, Ch. 24, Ch. 32 Neutrino mass, Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Neutron, discovery, Ch. 1 Neutron capture, Ch. 18, Ch. 22, Ch. 23, Ch. 26 Neutron detection, Ch. 16 Neutron drip line, Ch. 4, Ch. 10, Ch. 33 Neutron excess, Ch. 4 Neutron lifetime, Ch. 14, Ch. 24 Neutron number (N), Ch. 1 Neutron rich nuclei, Ch. 10, Ch. 23 Neutron scattering length, Ch. 3 Neutron separation energy, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 6, Ch. 10 Neutron skin, Ch. 2, Ch. 25 Neutron star, Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 23, Ch. 25 Neutron star merger, Ch. 23, Ch. 25 Nickel-62 (highest B/A), Ch. 1, Ch. 4 NICER (X-ray telescope), Ch. 25 Nilsson model, Ch. 7, Ch. 8 Nilsson quantum numbers, Ch. 7 NNDC (National Nuclear Data Center), Ch. 2, Ch. 9, Ch. 35 Nolen-Schiffer anomaly, Ch. 2 Nonproliferation, see Nuclear security Nordheim rules, Ch. 2 Nuclear clock, Ch. 15 Nuclear density, Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 25 Nuclear equation of state, see Equation of state Nuclear force, Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 31 Nuclear forensics, Ch. 28 Nuclear magneton, Ch. 2, Ch. 6 Nuclear matrix element (double beta), Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Nuclear matter, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 25 Nuclear medicine, Ch. 27 Nuclear radius, Ch. 1, Ch. 2 Nuclear reactor, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Nuclear security, Ch. 28 Nuclear statistical equilibrium, Ch. 1, Ch. 22 Nuclear waste, Ch. 26 Nucleon, Ch. 1 Nucleon-nucleon scattering, Ch. 3 Nucleon structure, Ch. 31 Nucleosynthesis, see Stellar nucleosynthesis, Explosive nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis Nuclide, Ch. 1

O

O(6) limit (IBA), Ch. 8 Occupancy probability (BCS), Ch. 7 Octupole deformation, Ch. 8 Odd-even staggering, see Even-odd staggering Odd-odd nuclei, Ch. 2, Ch. 4, Ch. 6, Ch. 7 Oganesson (Z = 118), Ch. 11 One-pion exchange potential (OPEP), Ch. 3 Onion-shell structure (star), Ch. 22 Optical model, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19 Oxygen-16, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 9, Ch. 22 Oxygen drip line, Ch. 3, Ch. 10

P

p-process, Ch. 23 Pair creation, internal, Ch. 9, Ch. 16 Pair production, Ch. 16 Pairing energy, Ch. 4, Ch. 7 Pairing gap, Ch. 7, Ch. 8 Pairing interaction, Ch. 7 Parity, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 9, Ch. 14 Parity violation, Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Partial wave, Ch. 3, Ch. 17 Particle-hole symmetry, Ch. 7 Particle physics, see Standard Model Parton distributions, Ch. 31 Pasta phases (neutron star), Ch. 25 Pauli exclusion principle, Ch. 3, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7 Penning trap, Ch. 2, Ch. 30 Periodic table, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 11 PET (positron emission tomography), Ch. 27 Phase shift, Ch. 3, Ch. 17 Phase transition, shape, Ch. 8 Phonon (nuclear vibration), Ch. 8 Photoelectric effect, Ch. 16 Photon density of states, Ch. 5 Pickup reaction, Ch. 19 Pion, see Meson Plunger method (RDM), Ch. 9 Plutonium-239, Ch. 20, Ch. 26, Ch. 28 Polonium-210, Ch. 13 Positron emission, Ch. 14, Ch. 27 Potential, nuclear, see Nuclear force, Woods-Saxon Potential, optical, see Optical model pp chain, Ch. 1, Ch. 21, Ch. 22 PREX experiment, Ch. 2, Ch. 25, Ch. 32 Projection theorem, Ch. 6 Proliferation, Ch. 20, Ch. 28 Prompt neutrons, Ch. 20 Proton decay, Ch. 32 Proton drip line, Ch. 2, Ch. 4, Ch. 10 Proton emission, Ch. 10 Proton number (Z), Ch. 1 Proton radius puzzle, Ch. 31 Proton-rich nuclei, Ch. 10 Proton therapy, Ch. 27 Pulsar, Ch. 25

Q

Q-value, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 17, Ch. 20 QCD (quantum chromodynamics), Ch. 31 Quadrupole deformation, see Deformation Quadrupole moment, electric, Ch. 2, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9 Quadrupole vibration, Ch. 8 Quantum tunneling, Ch. 5, Ch. 13, Ch. 21 Quark, Ch. 31 Quark model, Ch. 31 Quasiparticle, Ch. 7

R

R-matrix theory, Ch. 18 r-process (rapid neutron capture), Ch. 10, Ch. 23, Ch. 33 Radiation damage, Ch. 16, Ch. 26, Ch. 29 Radiation detection, Ch. 16, Ch. 30 Radiation protection, Ch. 29 Radiation units, Ch. 16, Ch. 29 Radioactive beam, see Radioactive ion beam Radioactive dating, Ch. 12, Ch. 29 Radioactive decay law, Ch. 12 Radioactive ion beam, Ch. 10, Ch. 19, Ch. 30 Radioactive waste, Ch. 26 Radioactivity, natural, Ch. 12, Ch. 29 Radiopharmaceutical, Ch. 27 Radon, Ch. 12, Ch. 29 Rainwater, James, Ch. 8 Range (charged particle), Ch. 16, Ch. 27 Reactor, see Nuclear reactor Recoil energy, Ch. 13, Ch. 15 Recoil-distance method (RDM), Ch. 9 Reduced transition probability, see B(E2), B(M1) Reines, Frederick, Ch. 14 Relativistic effects (SHE chemistry), Ch. 11 Replication crisis, Ch. 33 Repulsive core, Ch. 3, Ch. 25 Residual interaction, Ch. 7 Resonance, nuclear, Ch. 17, Ch. 18 Resonance escape probability, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Resonance integral, Ch. 18, Ch. 26 Rigid rotor, Ch. 8 RIKEN, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 30 Rotational band, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9 Rotational energy formula, Ch. 8 Rutherford, Ernest, Ch. 1 Rutherford scattering, Ch. 1, Ch. 17

S

s-process (slow neutron capture), Ch. 23 Safeguards, see IAEA safeguards Safety (reactor), Ch. 26 Saturation of nuclear force, Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 4 Scattering amplitude, Ch. 17 Scattering length, Ch. 3 Schmidt lines, Ch. 2, Ch. 6 Schmidt magnetic moment, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 6 Scintillation detector, Ch. 16 Scissors mode, Ch. 9 Secular equilibrium, Ch. 12 Selection rules, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 14, Ch. 15 Semi-empirical mass formula (SEMF), Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 20 Seniority, Ch. 7, Ch. 9 Separation energy, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 6, Ch. 10 Shape coexistence, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9 Shape phase transition, Ch. 8 SHE Factory (Dubna), Ch. 11, Ch. 30 Shell closure, see Magic numbers Shell correction (Strutinsky), Ch. 7, Ch. 11, Ch. 20 Shell evolution, Ch. 10 Shell gap, Ch. 6, Ch. 10 Shell model, nuclear, Ch. 4, Ch. 6, Ch. 7 Sievert (unit), Ch. 16, Ch. 29 Silicon burning, Ch. 22 Single-particle energy, Ch. 6, Ch. 7 Single-particle estimate, see Weisskopf estimate Small modular reactor (SMR), Ch. 26 Sommerfeld parameter, Ch. 5, Ch. 13, Ch. 17 SPECT, Ch. 27 Specific activity, Ch. 12 Spectroscopic factor, Ch. 19 Spectroscopic notation, Ch. 5, Ch. 6 Spin-orbit coupling, Ch. 6 Spin-orbit potential, Ch. 3, Ch. 6 Spontaneous fission, see Fission, spontaneous Standard Model, Ch. 14, Ch. 31, Ch. 32 Stellar evolution, Ch. 22 Stellar nucleosynthesis, Ch. 1, Ch. 21, Ch. 22 Stopping power, see Bethe-Bloch formula Stripping reaction, Ch. 19 Strong force, see Nuclear force, QCD Strutinsky method, see Shell correction SU(3) limit (IBA), Ch. 8 Superallowed beta decay, Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Superconductivity (analogy to pairing), Ch. 7 Superdeformation, Ch. 8 Superheavy elements, Ch. 4, Ch. 11, Ch. 33 Supernova, core-collapse, Ch. 22, Ch. 23, Ch. 25 Surface energy (SEMF), Ch. 4 Surface delta interaction, Ch. 7 Survival probability, Ch. 11 Symmetry energy, see Asymmetry energy

T

Technetium-99m, Ch. 7, Ch. 15, Ch. 27 TENDL (nuclear data library), Ch. 35 Tensor force, Ch. 3, Ch. 7, Ch. 10 Theranostics, Ch. 27 Thermal neutron, Ch. 18, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Thermonuclear reaction rate, Ch. 21, Ch. 22 Thomas-Fermi approximation, Ch. 1 Three-body force, see Three-nucleon force Three Gorges Dam (energy comparison), Ch. 21 Three Mile Island, Ch. 26 Three-nucleon force, Ch. 3, Ch. 10, Ch. 25, Ch. 33 Threshold energy, Ch. 17 Tidal deformability, Ch. 25 Tin isotopes, Ch. 2, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 9 Tokamak, Ch. 21 Total angular momentum, see Angular momentum TOV equation (Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff), Ch. 25 Transfer reaction, Ch. 19 Transition probability, see B(E2), Weisskopf estimate Transmutation, Ch. 17, Ch. 26 Transient equilibrium, Ch. 12 Triple-alpha process, Ch. 22 Tritium, Ch. 3, Ch. 21 Tunneling, see Quantum tunneling Two-neutron separation energy ($S_{2n}$), Ch. 2, Ch. 6, Ch. 10 Two-proton radioactivity, Ch. 10

U

U(5) limit (IBA), Ch. 8 Uncertainty principle, Ch. 5, Ch. 10 Unified model, see Bohr Hamiltonian Units, nuclear, Ch. 1 Uranium-235, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 13, Ch. 20, Ch. 26, Ch. 28 Uranium-238, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 18, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 Uranium series (decay chain), Ch. 12

V

V-A theory, Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Valley of stability, Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 10 Vibrator, harmonic (nuclear), Ch. 8 Viola-Seaborg formula, Ch. 11, Ch. 13 Virtual state, Ch. 3 Volume energy (SEMF), Ch. 4

W

Waiting point (r-process), Ch. 10, Ch. 23 Weak interaction, Ch. 14, Ch. 31, Ch. 32 Weapons physics, see Nuclear security Weisskopf estimate, Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 9, Ch. 15 Weisskopf units (W.u.), Ch. 9 Wigner 3j symbol, Ch. 5 Wigner-Eckart theorem, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 9 WKB approximation, Ch. 5, Ch. 13 Woods-Saxon potential, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 6 Wu, Chien-Shiung, Ch. 14, Ch. 32 Wu experiment, see Parity violation

X

X(5) critical point symmetry, Ch. 8 Xenon poisoning, Ch. 26 XFEL (X-ray free electron laser), Ch. 30

Y

Yrast line, Ch. 8 Yukawa potential, Ch. 3

Z

Zirconium-90, Ch. 4, Ch. 6 Z-boson, Ch. 31, Ch. 32 Zero-range approximation, Ch. 3