NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR REACTORS
1 Nuclei in the Cosmos 1 11 Nuclei 1 12 Primordial nucleosynthesis 6 13 Reactions in light stars 9 14 Heavy stars 17 15 Explosive production mechanisms 21 16 Outlook 26 2 Reactions of nuclei 28 21 Kinds of states and reactions 28 22 Time and energy scales 31 23 Collisions 34 24 Cross sections 42 3 Scattering theory 48 31 Elastic scattering from spherical potentials 48 32 Multi-channel scattering 75 33 Integral forms 91 34 Identical particles 105 35 Electromagnetic channels 114 4 Reaction mechanisms 129 41 Optical potentials 129 42 Single-nucleon binding potentials 132 43 Coupling potentials 137 44 Inelastic couplings 141 45 Particle rearrangements 150 46 Isospin transitions 158 47 Photo-nuclear couplings 161 5 Connecting structure with reactions 173 51 Summary of structure models 173 52 Folded potentials 186 53 Overlap functions 190 54 General matrix elements 196 6 Solving the equations 200 61 Elastic scattering 200 62 Classifications 202 63 Multi-channel equations 204 64 Multi-channel bound states 215 65 R-matrix methods 217 66 Coupled asymptotic wave functions 226 7 Approximate solutions 229 71 Few-body adiabatic scattering 229 72 Eikonal methods 237 73 First-order semiclassical approximation 245 74 WKB approximation 247 8 Breakup 254 81 Three-body wave equations 254 82 Continuum Discretized Coupled Channel method 259 83 Other breakup measures and methods 270 9 Three-body nuclei 274 91 Definitions of halo and deeply bound states 274 92 Three-body models for bound states 276 93 Three-body continuum 285 94 Reactions with three-body projectiles 287 10 R-matrix phenomenology 296 101 R-matrix parameters 296 102 Single-channel R matrix 297 103 Coupled-channels R matrix 305 104 Combining direct and resonant contributions 311 11 Compound-nucleus averaging 314 111 Compound-nucleus phenomena 314 112 Approximations neglecting interference 317 113 Hauser-Feshbach models 318 114 Level densities 327 115 Average amplitudes and the optical model 329 12 Stellar reaction rates and networks 340 121 Thermal averaging 340 122 Reaction networks 350 123 Equilibria 354 124 Sensitivities to nuclear data 360 13 Connection to experiments 364 131 New accelerators and their methods 364 132 Detection 367 133 Direct measurements 373 14 Spectroscopy 379 141 Transfer spectroscopy 379 142 Knockout spectroscopy 390 143 Inelastic spectroscopy 394 144 Breakup spectroscopy 396 145 Charge-exchange spectroscopy 398 15 Fitting data 403 151 ?2 measures 403 152 Fitting cross-section harmonic multipoles 409 153 Fitting optical potentials 410 154 Multi-channel fitting 412 155 Searching 414