Nuclear physics and data for material analysis

127 Pages·2008·1.745 MB·English

by  Nello Paver

ICTP Lecture Notes
NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND DATA
FOR MATERIAL ANALYSIS
19 - 30 May 2003
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N. Paver
University of Trieste and INFN, Italy
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PREFACE
One of the main missions of the Abdus Salam International Centre for
Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, foundedin 1964, is to foster the growth
of advanced studies and scientific research in developing countries. To this
end, the Centre organizes a number of schools and workshops in a variety of
physical and mathematical disciplines.
Since unpublished material presented at the meetings might prove to
be of interest also to scientists who did not take part in the schools and
workshops,theCentrehasdecidedtomakeitavailablethroughapublication
series entitled ICTPLectureNotes. It is hopedthatthis formally structured
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CONTENTS
A.F. Gurbich
Physics of the Interaction of Charged Particles with Nuclei ..............1
A.F. Gurbich
Differential Cross Sections for Elastic Scattering of Protons and Helions
from Light Nuclei ......................................................31
M. Mayer
Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS) .........................55
M. Mayer
Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA) ......................................81
O. Schwerer
Introduction to IAEA Nuclear Data Services ..........................101

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Introduction
The Workshop on “Nuclear Reaction Data for Science and Technology:
Materials Analysis” was held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for
Theoretical Physics in May 19-30, 2003.
It was intended to present an extensive, and up-to-date, overview of the
applications of nuclear data to materials analysis and validation. Dedicated
lectures were given on prompt-charged particle analysis, particle-induced X-
ray spectrometry, nuclear reaction analysis, prompt gamma and neutron ac-
tivation analyses, ion beams analysis. The physics underlyingsuch analyses,
and the determinations of the needed reliable nuclear data, were discussed
thoroughly. The Workshop included also basic lectures on material anal-
ysis, nuclear models, particle-matter interactions, and presentations of the
nuclear data libraries were given. A substantial amount of time was devoted
to practical exercises on simulation and nuclear data retrieval.
We here include lecture notes on: the physics of charged particle interac-
tionswithnuclei;differentialcrosssectionsofprotonsandhelionsonlightnu-
clei; nuclear reaction analysis; Rutherford backscattering spectrometry; the
IAEANuclearDataServices. Fortheotherlectures,transparenciesareavail-
ableon-lineonthewebsitehttp://www.ictp.it/pages/events/calendar.html/
The Workshop was organized by ICTP and IAEA, whose support is
gratefully acknowledged. We are thankful to the speakers for their excellent
presentations, and to the ICTP staff for their invaluable help in runningthis
activity.
For the Organizers (M. Herman, I. Vickridge)
Nello Paver
March, 2008

Physics of the Interaction of Charged Particles
with Nuclei
A.F. Gurbich∗
Institute of Physics and Power Engineering,
Obninsk, Russian Federation
Lectures given at the
Workshop on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology:
Materials Analysis
Trieste, 19-30 May 2003
LNS0822001
∗
[email protected]