Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D thesis by the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Presents a comprehensive study of transfer-triggered breakup that gives unprecedented insights into the mechanisms of breakup
- Offers a uniquely detailed introduction to the effect of including lifetimes of resonant states in models of breakup
- Includes a comprehensive introduction and background section, making it particularly useful to new students
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Combining incisive experiments with the latest theoretical advances, this book presents an extensive study of transfer-triggered breakup, the dominant process by which breakup occurs in reactions involving light, weakly bound nuclei. It demonstrates not only that lifetimes of resonant states shorter than a zeptosecond are crucially important for these reactions to suppress complete fusion, but also that such short lifetimes are experimentally accessible. By making quantitative predictions of the effect of breakup from short-lived resonant states on incomplete fusion at above-barrier energies, the book suggests that the extent to which near-target breakup can suppress complete fusion is much more limited than previously thought.
With an impressive amount of complex data and state-of-the-art models, which were developed, modified, and tested over course of the Ph.D., it examines all aspects of nuclear reactions – nuclear models, modern detectors and spectrometers, as well asdata analysis, and offers a detailed discussion of experimental results and technical developments like new radioactive beams. This excellent and beautifully written book presents outstanding quality experimental work that establishes a cornerstone in our understanding of the reaction dynamics of light weakly bound nuclei at energies around the Coulomb barrier.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kaitlin Cook received her PhD in nuclear physics from the Australian National University in 2017, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on the role that weak binding and cluster structures plays in reactions of stable and radioactive weakly bound nuclei. She is an author of 24 peer-reviewed articles in nuclear reaction dynamics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Zeptosecond Dynamics of Transfer‐Triggered Breakup
Book Subtitle: Mechanisms, Timescales, and Consequences for Fusion
Authors: Kaitlin Jennifer Cook
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96017-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96016-6Published: 05 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07131-8Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96017-3Published: 23 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 269
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Nuclear Fusion