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Nuclear Reactions & Cross Sections

A topic within Nuclear Physics, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Physics.

Reading on Nuclear Reactions & Cross Sections

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Course2006

Applied Nuclear Physics

MIT OpenCourseWare

Covers nuclear reactions through the compound-nucleus picture Bohr introduced in 1936 — a reaction as formation of a short-lived intermediate state sharing its energy among all nucleons, then decaying independently of how it formed.

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Paper1936

Neutron Capture and Nuclear Constitution

Niels Bohr

Proposes that a neutron striking a nucleus first forms a short-lived compound nucleus sharing its energy among all nucleons before decaying, explaining the resonance peaks in reaction cross sections.

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