Course Descriptions
Introduction to Nuclear Engineering I
- Review of Modern Physics
- Nuclear Models
- Atomic Models
- Binding Energy
- Line of Stability
- Radioactivity
- Modes of Decay (charged particles, neutrons, electromagnetic)
- Decay Chains
Introduction to Nuclear Engineering II
- Radiation Interactions
- electron, decay constant, characteristic and bremsstrahlung
- x-rays, Auger electrons, fission and fusion reactions, and
- kinematics of nuclear reactions and decays
- Classical and quantum-mechanical derivations of cross sections
- Micro- Macroscopic cross-sections
- Interactions of photons with matter
- Photoelectric absorption, Compton Scattering, pair production,
- Rayleigh, Thomson, and Raman scatterings, and photonuclear
- Interactions of neutrons with matter
- Elastic scattering, inelastic scattering and cascade reactions,
- Radiative capture, charged-particle emission, fission, and
- Fusion reactions
- Interactions of charged particles with matter
- Elastic, inelastic: excitation, ionization, and bremsstrahlung.
- Semi-classical derivation of Bethe’s formula of stopping power.
- Radiation effects on matter
Radiation Detection and Instrumentation
- Counting statistics and error propagation
- Ionization chambers
- Proportional counters
- G-M counters
- Scintillation detectors
- Semiconductor detectors
- Pulse/signal processing
- Application of radiation detectors
- Spectrometers and spectrum unfolding
- Miscellaneous radiation detectors