1. Edition - February 2007
79.- Euro
2007. XIV, 666 Pages, Softcover
244 Fig. (12 Colored Fig.), 15 Tab. 
- Textbook -
ISBN-10: 3-527-40602-6
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-40602-9 - Wiley-VCH, Berlin







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Short description
Both a textbook, with many examples and end-of-chapter exercises, and a reference for researchers working in the field, this volume treats the topic in detail, presenting the nuclear reaction and structure theory, thermonuclear reaction rate formalism and stellar nucleosythesis.

From the contents
1 Aspects of Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
1.1 History
1.2 Nomenclature
1.3 Solar System Abundances
1.4 Astrophysical Aspects
1.5 Masses, Binding Energies, Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics
1.6 Nuclear Shell Model
1.8 Weak Interaction

2 Nuclear Reactions
2.1 Cross Sections
2.2 Reciprocity Theorem
2.3 Elastic Scattering and Method of Partial Waves
2.4 Scattering by Simple Potentials
2.5 Theory of Resonances
2.6 Continuum Theory

3 Thermonuclear Reactions
3.2 Non resonant and Resonant Thermonuclear Reaction Rates

4 Nuclear Physics Experiments
4.1 General Aspects
4.4 Radiation Detectors
4.6 Miscellaneous Experimental Techniques
4.8 Yields and Cross Sections for Charged-Particle-Induced
Reactions
4.9 Transmissions, Yields and Cross Sections for Neutron-Induced
Reactions

5 Nuclear Burning Stages and Processes
5.1 Hydrostatic Hydrogen Burning
5.2 Explosive Hydrogen Burning
5.3 Hydrostatic Helium Burning
5.4 Explosive Hydrogen-Helium Burning
5.5 Advanced Burning Stages
5.6 Nucleosynthesis beyond the Iron Peak