Fundamentals and Applications of Heavy Ion Collisions Below 10 MeV/ Nucleon Energies

An up-to-date text, covering the concept of incomplete fusion (ICF) in heavy ion (HI) interactions at energies below 10 MeV/ nucleon. Important concepts including the exciton model, the Harp Miller and Berne model, Hybrid model, Sum rule model, Hot spot model and promptly emitted particles model are covered in depth. It studies the ICF and PE-emission in heavy ion reactions at low energies using off-beam and in-beam experimental techniques. Theories of complete fusion (CF) of heavy ions based on Compound Nucleus (CN) mechanism of statistical nuclear reactions, details of the Computer code PACE4 based on CN mechanism, pre-equilibrium (PE) emission, modeling of (ICF) and their limits of application are discussed in detail.

Preface; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical tools, reaction mechanism and computer codes; 3. Experimental details and formulations; 4. The measurements; 5. Results and conclusions; References; Index.

R. Prasad is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Aligarh Muslim University, India, where he has served for forty-three years. During that time, he was Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Experimental Physics, as well as Chairman of the Department of Physics and Dean of the Faculty of Science. He has taught courses on nuclear physics, thermal physics, electronics, quantum mechanics and modern physics at graduate and postgraduate level. His area of specialization is experimental nuclear physics and he has published more than 175 papers in national and international journals. Prasad carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Hamburg, Germany as DAAD fellow, at the Swiss Institute of Nuclear Research (SIN) Switzerland as visiting professor, at the Atom Institute of Technical University of Vienna, Austria as invited guest professor, at the Abduls Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Triest, Italy, and at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), India. He is author of a book titled Classical and Quantum Thermal Physics (Cambridge, 2016).
B. P. Singh is Professor of Physics at Aligarh Muslim University. His areas of research include experimental nuclear physics with special interest on the topics of pre-equilibrium emission in nuclear reactions and incomplete fusion reactions in heavy ion interaction. He has more than twenty-two years of teaching and research experience and has taught courses on nuclear physics, heavy-ion physics, mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermal and statistical physics at undergraduate and graduate level.