Useful links and books

Useful links    

https://www-nds.iaea.org         IAEA,  Nuclear Data Services, including Live Chart of Nuclides

http://periodictable.com/Elements/001/data.html   lots of data including  neutron cross sections

http://periodictable.com/Properties/A/NeutronCrossSection.html

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov                                 Brookhaven Lab Nuclear Data Centre

http://www.nucleide.org/DDEP_WG/DDEPdata.htm    Becquerel Laboratory Data

http://wwwndc.jaea.go.jp/NuC/                       Nuclear Data Centre, Japan

http://atom.kaeri.re.kr                                       KAERI Table of Nuclides

http://pdg.lbl.gov                                             Lawrence Berkeley Lab (this is the webpage of the Particle Data Group, but it includes  data on properties of nuclei, atoms, and materials)


http://www.nist.gov/pml/data/              NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Physical Measurement Laboratory;  the webpage provides Physical Reference Data, including constants, data on nuclear physics and radiation, etc.,  

http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/XrayMassCoef/tab3.html   X/γ-ray attenuation coefficients

http://web-docs.gsi.de/~stoe_exp/web_programs/x_ray_absorption/index.php  X-ray absorption calculator using NIST data; easy to use, but only for selected elements, compounds and tissues

https://www.nist.gov/pml/radionuclide-half-life-measurements-data    some half-lifes

https://www.nist.gov/pml/productsservices/physical-reference-data    constants and reference data                                                                                                                                   

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/                  Constants

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html         SI Units system


http://www.webelements.com                      Periodic Table of Elements

http://www.iupac.org                                    IUPAC (Periodic Table of Elements)

http://www.matweb.com/                             searchable database of material properties

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/           HyperPhysics Concepts (path oriented tool to physics)

http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/physics/   Nobel prizes


http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/    World Nuclear News  wnn@world-nuclear-news.org

                                                               including weekly updates

http://www.hps.org              Health Physics Society (since 1956) - specialists in radiation safety

http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/     Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)

http://web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/about/services.htm      Safety programs, incl. radiation safety

    -  On nuclear accidents see some of books on the list of  “Relevant books” below,

                 and see Wikipedia (Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster; Chernobyl disaster)

       -  Interesting recent blog on nuclear energy and environment (2016 April)

            http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-education-of-an-environmentalist/


http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/~brm/npbook.html errata, B.R. Martin “Nuclear and Particle Physics”

 
Relevant textbooks B. R. Martin, Nuclear and Particle Physics, An Introduction (Wiley 2009) K.S. Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics (Wiley 1986) J.S. Lilley, Nuclear Physics, Principles and Applications (Wiley 2001-2008) C.A. Bertulani, Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell (Princeton University Press, 2007) W.N. Cottingham, D.A. Greenwood, An Introduction to Nuclear Physics (Cambridge 2001) K. Heyde, Basic Ideas and Concepts in Nuclear Physics; An introductory Approach (Institute of Physics, Series in Fundamental and Applied Nuclear Physics), 3d edition (2004) S.M. Wong, Introductory Nuclear Physics, (Wiley 2004) Y.M. Tsipenyuk, Nuclear Methods in Science and Technology (Institute of Physics, Series in Fundamental and Applied Nuclear Physics) B. Povh, K. Rith, C. Scholz, F. Zetsche, W. Rodejohann, Particles and Nuclei, An Introduction to the Physical Concepts (Seventh edition, Springer-Verlag 2015; Graduate Texts in Physics) D.J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Wiley 2005) D.H. McIntyre, Quantum Mechanics: A Paradigms Approach (Pearson Education Ltd 2012) E.S. Abers, Quantum Mechanics (Wiley 2003) D. Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles (Wiley 2008-10) [intro to Feynman diagrams] S.R. Cherry, J.A. Sorenson, M.E. Phelps “Physics in Nuclear Medicine”, 4th edition, (Saunders Elsevier 2012) ISBN 978-1-4160-5198-5, UVic library R895 S58 2012 Nick Bryan, Introduction to the Science of Medical Imaging (Cambridge University Press 2010) Paul Suetens, Fundamentals of Medical Imaging (Cambridge University Press 2009) Relevant books H. Tammemagi and D. Jackson, Unlocking the Atom (The Canadian Book on Nuclear Technology) 2002 Burton Richter, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors - Climate change and energy in the 21st century, 2010 Wade Allison, Radiation and Reason, the impact of science on a culture of fear, 2009 Richard Muller, Energy for Future Presidents - the science behind the headlines, 2013 Wade Allison, Nuclear is for life: a cultural revolution, 2015 J. Mahaffey, Atomic Awakening (a new look at the history and future of nuclear power) 2017 Books on fascinating events and people (heroes and villains) of nuclear physics The Age of Radiance (the epic rise and dramatic fall of the atomic era), Craig Nelson, 2014 The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes, 1986 and 2011 (Pullitzer Prize) Inward Bound: Of matter and forces in the physical world, Abraham Pais (1986, 2002) The Fly in the Cathedral , Brian Cathcart, 2004 Atom, Piers Bizony (2007); also BBC series


From “Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell” by C. Bertulani, see enclosed an elegant QM derivations of the Breit- Wigner formula re unstable nuclear states and the Golden Rule.    Bertulani 179-183.pdf 

The former, Γτ = ħ, is used in calculating lifetimes of unstable nuclear states and resonances (M p 26); the latter in the theory of nuclear decays (M p 343, M7.7, M7.8).