NUCLEAR CROSS SECTIONS FOR TECHNOLOGY
CONTENTS PART 1: STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS 1 ELEMENTS OF EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS 11 INTRODUCTION 12 MICROSTATES AND MACROSTATES 13 SUBSYSTEMS AND CONVOLUTION 14 THE BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION 15 STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS 16 THE GRAND CANONICAL ENSEMBLE 17 EQUATIONS OF STATE FOR IDEAL AND REAL GASES 18 PSEUDO-EQUILIBRIUM 19 STATISTICAL MODELS OF NUCLEAR DECAY 2 NUCLEAR PHYSICS BACKGROUND 21 INTRODUCTION 22 ELEMENTS OF THE THEORY OF NUCLEAR REACTIONS 23 QUANTUM MECHANICAL DESCRIPTION OF SCATTERING FROM A POTENTIAL 24 DECAY RATES AND WIDTHS 25 LEVEL AND STATE DENSITIES IN ATOMIC NUCLEI 26 ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN QUANTUM MECHANICS PART 2: SINGLE AND MULTISTEP EVAPORATION 3 HISTORY OF STATISTICAL MODELS OF NUCLEAR DECAY PROCESSES 31 INTRODUCTION 32 THE BOHR INDEPENDENCE HYPOTHESIS 33 THE WEISSKOPF THEORY OF EVAPORATION FROM THE COMPOUND NUCLEUS 34 THE OPTICAL MODEL OF ELASTIC SCATTERING 35 THE HAUSER–FESHBACH EVAPORATION MODEL 36 FUSION 37 PRE-EQUILIBRIUM EMISSION 38 STATISTICAL MODELS FOR ?SSION AT LOW EXCITATION 4 SINGLE AND MULTISTEP EVAPORATION CALCULATIONS 41 INTRODUCTION 42 MONTE CARLO METHODS 43 MONTE CARLO TREATMENT OF A SINGLE EVAPORATION STEP 44 MULTISTEP (SEQUENTIAL) EVAPORATION 45 COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENT 46 RECOIL CORRELATIONS IN SEQUENTIAL EMISSION PART 3: SEQUENTIAL BINARY DECAY AND MULTIFRAGMENTATION 5 MULTIDETECTORS, SEQUENTIAL BINARY DECAY AND THE CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTIFRAGMENT DECAY PROCESSES 51 INTRODUCTION 52 MULTIDETECTORS 53 THE SEQUENTIAL DECAY MODEL OF FRIEDMAN AND LYNCH 54 THE TRANSITION STATE APPROACH TO SEQUENTIAL BINARY DECAY 55 THE EXPANDING SOURCE MODEL OF BARBAGALLO, RICHERT AND WAGNER 56 CHARACTERIZATION OF DECAY MECHANISMS 6 STATISTICAL MODELS FOR MULTIFRAGMENTATION 61 INTRODUCTION 62 EVENTS, PARTITIONS AND MACROSTATES 63 FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIFRAGMENTATION SIMULATIONS 64 THE COPENHAGEN HEATED LIQUID DROP MODEL 65 THE METROPOLIS ALGORITHM 66 THE BERLIN METROPOLIS SAMPLING MULTIFRAGMENTATION MODEL 67 CORRECTIONS FOR ?NITE SIZE OF FRAGMENTS 68 THE BERKELEY TRANSITION STATE MODEL 7 PERCOLATION, CALORIC CURVES AND VAPORIZATION 71 INTRODUCTION 72 MULTIFRAGMENTATION, PERCOLATION AND FRAGMENT SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS 73 CALORIC CURVES 74 VAPORIZATION 8 FROM EVAPORATION TO VAPORIZATION 81 SUMMING UP