The physics of the Manhattan project:
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| Beschreibung: | XVII, 222 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
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CONTENTS
1 ENERGY RELEASE IN NUCLEAR REACTIONS, NEUTRONS, FISSION, AND
CHARACTERISTICS OF FISSION 1
1.1 NOTATIONAL CONVENTIONS FOR MASS EXCESS AND Q-VALUES 1
1.2 RUTHERFORD AND THE ENERGY RELEASE IN RADIUM DECAY 3
1.3 RUTHERFORD'S FIRST ARTIFICIAL NUCLEAR TRANSMUTATION 5
1.4 DISCOVERY OF THE NEUTRON 6
1.5 ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED RADIOACTIVITY AND THE PATH TO FISSION 14
1.6 ENERGY RELEASE IN FISSION 19
1.7 THE BOHR-WHEELER THEORY OF FISSION: THE Z
2
/A LIMIT AGAINST
SPONTANEOUS FISSION 20
1.8 ENERGY SPECTRUM OF FISSION NEUTRONS 26
1.9 LEAPING THE FISSION BARRIER 29
1.10 A SEMI-EMPIRICAL LOOK AT THE FISSION BARRIER 34
1.11 A NUMERICAL MODEL OF THE FISSION PROCESS 38
1.11.1 VOLUME AND SURFACE AREAS; VOLUME CONSERVATION 40
1.11.2 SURFACE AND COULOMB ENERGIES 43
1.11.3 RESULTS 45
REFERENCES 47
2 CRITICAL MASS AND EFFICIENCY 49
2.1 NEUTRON MEAN FREE PATH 50
2.2 CRITICAL MASS: DIFFUSION THEORY 55
2.3 EFFECT OF TAMPER 63
2.4 ESTIMATING BOMB EFFICIENCY: ANALYTIC 69
2.5 ESTIMATING BOMB EFFICIENCY: NUMERICAL 81
2.5.1 A SIMULATION OF THE HIROSHIMA LITTLE BOY BOMB 83
2.6 ANOTHER LOOK AT UNTAMPED CRITICALITY: JUST ONE NUMBER 86
2.7 CRITICAL MASS OF A CYLINDRICAL CORE (OPTIONAL) 89
REFERENCES 96
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3 PRODUCING FISSILE MATERIAL 97
3.1 REACTOR CRITICALITY 97
3.2 NEUTRON THERMALIZATION 101
3.3 PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION 104
3.4 ELECTROMAGNETIC SEPARATION OF ISOTOPES 107
3.5 GASEOUS (BARRIER) DIFFUSION 113
REFERENCES 119
4 COMPLICATING FACTORS 121
4.1 BORON CONTAMINATION IN GRAPHITE 121
4.2 SPONTANEOUS FISSION OF
240
PU, PREDETONATION, AND IMPLOSION. 124
4.2.1 LITTLE BOY PREDETONATION PROBABILITY 128
4.2.2 FAT MAN PREDETONATION PROBABILITY 129
4.3 PREDETONATION YIELD 132
4.4 TOLERABLE LIMITS FOR LIGHT-ELEMENT IMPURITIES 139
REFERENCES 143
5 MISCELLANEOUS CALCULATIONS 145
5.1 HOW WARM IS IT? 145
5.2 BRIGHTNESS OF THE
TRINITY
EXPLOSION 146
5.3 A MODEL FOR TRACE ISOTOPE PRODUCTION IN A REACTOR 151
REFERENCES 156
6 APPENDICES 157
6.1 APPENDIX A: SELECTED A-VALUES AND FISSION BARRIERS 157
6.2 APPENDIX B: DENSITIES, CROSS-SECTIONS, SECONDARY NEUTRON
NUMBERS, AND SPONTANEOUS-FISSION HALF-LIVES 158
6.2.1 THERMAL NEUTRONS (0.0253 EV) 158
6.2.2 FAST NEUTRONS (2 MEV) 158
6.3 APPENDIX C: ENERGY AND MOMENTUM CONSERVATION
IN A TWO-BODY COLLISION 159
6.4 APPENDIX D: ENERGY AND MOMENTUM CONSERVATION
IN A TWO-BODY COLLISION THAT PRODUCES A GAMMA-RAY 162
6.5 APPENDIX E: FORMAL DERIVATION OF THE BOHR-WHEELER SPONTANEOUS
FISSION LIMIT 164
6.5.1 INTRODUCTION 164
6.5.2 NUCLEAR SURFACE PROFILE AND VOLUME 165
6.5.3 THE AREA INTEGRAL 170
6.5.4 THE COULOMB INTEGRAL AND THE SF LIMIT 171
6.6 APPENDIX F: AVERAGE NEUTRON ESCAPE PROBABILITY FROM WITHIN
A SPHERE 179
6.7 APPENDIX G: THE NEUTRON DIFFUSION EQUATION 184
6.8 APPENDIX H: EXERCISES AND ANSWERS 192
6.9 APPENDIX I: GLOSSARY OF SYMBOLS 203
CONTENTS XV
6.10 APPENDIX J: FURTHER READING 209
6.10.1 GENERAL WORKS 209
6.10.2 BIOGRAPHICAL AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS 211
6.10.3 TECHNICAL WORKS 213
6.10.4 WEBSITES 215
6.11 APPENDIX K: USEFUL CONSTANTS AND REST MASSES 217
REFERENCES 217
INDEX 219 |
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