附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1: SOURCES of RADIATION; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Cosmic Rays; 1.3 Radioactive Sources; 1.3.1 Beta decay; 1.3.2 Gamma decay; 1.3.3 Alpha decay; 1.3.4 Neutron (fission) decay; 1.4 Accelerators; 1.4.1 Cockcroft-Walton generator; 1.4.2 Van de Graaff generator; 1.4.3 Cyclotron; 1.4.4 Electron linear accelerator (electron linac); 1.5 Other Accelerator-Based Sources; 1.5.1 The electron synchrotron; 1.6 Synchrotron Radiation; 1.6.1 Polarization; 1.6.2 Coherence; 1.6.3 Emittance; 1.7 Neutron Sources; 1.7.1 Reactors; 1.7.2 Neutrons from charged-particle reactions
1.7.3 Neutrons from photon-induced reactionsCHAPTER 2: INTERACTIONS of CHARGED PARTICLES; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Definitions of Range; 2.2.1 The transmission method; 2.2.2 The depth-dependence method; 2.3 Types of Charged Particle Interaction; 2.4 Energy Transfer in an Elastic Collision -- Classical Theory; 2.5 Stopping Power of a Charged Particle -- the Bethe Formula; 2.5.1 Mean excitation energy I; 2.5.2 The cut-off energy Ec and restricted stopping power; 2.6 Theoretical Description for Light Charged Particles; 2.7 Interactions of Low Energy Electrons
2.8 Momentum Loss of Heavy Charged Particles2.9 Coulomb Scattering of Heavy Charged Particles; 2.10 Inelastic Scattering of Light Particles -- Radiation Loss; 2.10.1 Corrections for the inadequacy of the Born approximation; 2.10.2 Additional contribution of electron-electron bremsstrahlung; 2.11 Consequences of Charged Particle Interactions; 2.11.1 Other secondary radiation; 2.11.2 Ionization yields; CHAPTER 3: INTERACTIONS of PHOTONS; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Attenuation Coefficients (linear mass atomic and electronic); 3.3 Classical (Thomson) Scatter from a Single Electron
3.4 Coherent (Rayleigh) Scatter3.5 Incoherent (Compton) Scatter; 3.5.1 The Klein-Nishina cross-section for Compton scatter; 3.5.2 Compton scatter from atomic electrons -- the effect of electron binding; 3.5.3 Electron recoil energy in Compton collisions; 3.5.4 Electron momentum distributions from Compton profiles; 3.6 Photoelectric Absorption; 3.6.1 Characteristic X-rays and Auger electrons; 3.7 Pair Production; CHAPTER 4: INTERACTIONS of NEUTRONS; 4.1 General Considerations; 4.1.1 Classification in terms of energy; 4.2 Neutron Interactions; 4.2.1 Direct (potential) scattering
4.2.2 Compound nucleus formation4.2.3 Partial decay lifetimes of compound nucleus states; 4.2.4 The formula for the Breit-Wigner cross-section; 4.3 Neutron Fields in Non-Multiplying Media; 4.3.1 Definition of flux and current density; 4.3.2 Collision dynamics; 4.3.3 Distributions in energy and angle of scatter; 4.3.4 Mean scatter angle and energy loss in a single collision; 4.3.5 Extension to multiple collisions; 4.3.6 The slowing-down energy spectrum; 4.3.7 Slowing down in hydrogen in the presence of absorption; 4.3.8 Slowing down in media heavier than hydrogen; 4.4 Neutron Diffusion
