Pre-equilibrium Emission in Nuclear Reactions

Chapter 1: History of Nuclear Reactions and Motivation 1.1 Background 1.2 Nuclear atom 1.3 The first transmutation reaction 1.4 Discovery of neutron 1.5 Artificial radioactivity 1.6 Strong nuclear force 1.7 New isotopes 1.8 Discovery of Fission 1.9 Self sustained fission chain reaction 1.10 Fusion reaction 1.11 Accelerators 1.12 Radiation detectors 1.13 Study of reaction mechanism 1.14 Experimental verification of independence of formation and decay of compound nucleus 1.15 Particle spectra 1.16 Experimentally measured energy spectrum of ejectiles 1.17 Motivation Chapter 2: Characteristics of Binary Nuclear Reactions 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Classification of Nuclear Reactions 2.3 Conservation laws in Nuclear Reactions 2.4 Quantities not conserved in Nuclear Reactions 2.5 Nuclear reactions versus chemical reactions 2.6 Energetic of Nuclear Reactions 2.7 Centre of mass frame of reference 2.8 Cross-section
Chapter 3: Theoretical Formulations of Compound and Pre-compound emission 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Compound Nucleus Reaction Mechanism 3.3 Verification of Bohr’s Independent Hypothesis 3.4 Theoretical formulation 3.5 Hauser Feshbach Formulations 3.6 Weisskopf-Ewing formalism 3.7 Nuclear Level Density 3.8 Pre-equilibrium Emission
Chapter 4: Models For Pre- Equilibrium Emission 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Intra-nuclear cascade model (INC) 4.3 The exciton model 4.4 Harp-Miller-Berne (HMB) model 4.5 Hybrid model 4.6 Totally Quantum mechanical model for Pre equilibrium process 4.7 Computer Codes
Chapter 5: Measurements for pre-equilibrium component 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Neutron Induced Reactions 5.3 Proton Induced Reactions 5.4 Alpha-induced Reactions 5.5 Heavy ion induced reactions
Chapter 6: Data analysis Parameterisation of pre-equilibrium fraction 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Pre-equilibrium fraction 6.3 Energy dependence in proton induced reactions 6.4 Dependence of relative magnitudes of ƒ𝑹 and ƒ𝑪𝑵 on energy 6.5 Systematics of pre-equilibrium fraction in odd Z and odd A nuclei 6.6 Systematic for heavy ion induced reactions 6.7 Pre-equilibrium component from Recoil Range Distribution (RRD) 6.8 Pre-equilibrium component from spin distribution measurement 6.9 Pre-equilibrium emission and synthesis of SHE 6.10 Future perspective