Nuclear and Particle Physics

Brian R Martin

Second edition, February 2009



Corrections and clarifications

(There is a separate section below for corrections to solutions to the problems)

(The notation is: line n means n lines from top, including equations; line -n means n lines from the bottom, excluding footnotes. )

p. 261, line -15: replace 'obtained from spent fuel rods in thermal reactors is called depleted uranium' to 'is obtained as a byproduct of enriching uranium for use in thermal reactors and is called depleted uranium.'
p. 265, line 1:  Insert a factor ½ before ΔE0
p. 239, Fig. 7.9 ordinate:  The ½ should be a subscript, not a superscript, to read: log10 t½ (s)
p. 313, line 13:  Remove the words 'square of the'
p. 324, Eq. (9.34):  Change eV to eV/c2
p. 329, line 15:  Change eV to eV/c2 and MeV to MeV/c2
p. 339, Eq. (A.3):  The term with the positive exponent needs an e to be inserted
p. 355, line 18: Change 'But from (B.23)' to 'But from (B.21)'
p. 357, Eq. (B.42):
Interchanged bracketed quantities CM and Lab
p. 378, line 3:  In right column,  change 3.1536 to 3.156
p. 446, right column, line 16:  After line 16 entry on Fragmentation add a new entry as: ft-value  246


Corrections to problems and their solutions

(For completeness I have listed even trivial typographical errors. The notation is: line n means n lines from top, including equations; line -n means n lines from the bottom, excluding footnotes. Comments are in [ ] brackets.)

p. 402 Solution to Q3.5: N should be 1.2x10^57, n should be 8.4x10^38 and lambda should be 6.6x10^12 km, i.e. about 10^7 times the solar radius.



Minor typographical errors

(For completeness I have listed even trivial typographical errors. The notation is: line n means n lines from top, including equations; line -n means n lines from the bottom, excluding footnotes. Comments are in [ ] brackets.)

I am obliged to Dr Eric Sheldon of Oxford University for providing the following list. None of these relate to physics issues.

p. xi, line 15:  change Mchanics to Mechanics
p. 18, footnote 35:  In resume the first e should also be accented
p. 20, footnote 40, line 2:  Change z to s to read: Gasiorowicz (1974).
p. 22, line 5:  Change drawn to draw
p. 27, lne -6:  Transfer 'simultaneously' to follow 'that' in line -7, 
p. 31, bottom line:  Delete the first 'of'
p. 33, line 6:  To conform with convention, the inelastically scattered particle should be primed as a'
p. 34, line 14:  Change the first 'that 'to 'than'
p. 35, line -1:  Delete s from depends
p. 36, line -22: 
inhomogeneities is misspelt
p. 36, line -9:  Capitalize the v in Gev
p. 38, bottom line:  Insert a t in Hofstader
p. 39, footnote 9:  Ditto
p. 58, line -17:  Change faction to fraction
p. 58, line -3:  Change Figure 2.13 to Figure 2.15
p. 63, line -1:  Insert a prime on the second a  
p. 84, line 2:  Change later to latter
p. 87, line 3:  Change Equations to Equation
p. 97, line -4:  Change interaction to interactions
p. 99, footnote 22, line 1:  Delete the duplicated 'try to'
p. 104, line 10:  Insert 'is' after 'there'
p. 114, line -2:  Insert 'to' after 'plane'
p. 117, line -4:  Change compliment to complement
p. 130, line 4:  Change 'or' to 'of'
p. 139, line 12:  Change 'spectometer' to 'spectrometer'
p. 139, line 13:  Change 'mention' to 'mentioned'
p. 159, Figure 5.9 caption, line 4:  Change 'measure' to 'measured'
p. 163, line -5:  Change 'lends' to 'lend'
p. 187, l. 17:  The s should be in roman font, not italic
p. 187, footnote 11:  Change 'lead' to 'led' on both occasions
p. 195, Fig. 6.17 caption, line 2:  Delete the semicolon after 'through'
p. 196, line 4:  Change 'lead' to 'led'
p. 202, line 10:  Change 'where' to 'which'
p. 203, line -16:  Change 'mesons' to 'meson'
p. 205, line 10:  Transfer 'only' to precede 'one'
p. 207, line 12:  Change the first 'that' to 'than'
p. 207, footnote ref. 23, 1st line:  Change 'Glasow' to 'Glashow'
p. 211, Fig. 6.25 caption, 2nd line:  Change 'and' to  'while'
p. 216, line 3:  Change 'statistic' to 'statistics'
p. 218, line -12:  Change the first 'that' to 'the'
p. 219, footnote ref. 6, bottom line:  Change 'quarks' to 'quark'
p. 225, line 2:  Change 'nuclei' to 'nucleus'
p. 228, line -8:  Delete the period after momentum
p. 232, line -17:  Add an s to moment
p. 233, Fig. 7.7 caption, 2nd line:  Change 'denoted' to 'denote'
p. 234, footnote ref. Change Leo to James
p. 236, Fig. 7.8:  In the abscissa, the subscript c should be capitalized
p. 243, line 7:  Insert 'to' after 'due'
p. 246, line -11:  Change 'measure' to 'measured'
p. 247, line -4:  Change 'changes' to 'change'
p. 259, line -4:  Italicize the q
p. 269, line 12:  Hyphenate dt
p. 269, line -8:  Change 'bremmstrahlung' to 'bremsstrahlung'
p. 270, line 14:  Change 'If' to 'if' after the comma
p. 271, line -16:  Change 'gaol' to 'goal'

p. 275, line 7:  change 'measure' to 'measured'
p. 277, line -10:  Delete the apostrophe after boils
p. 283, line 2:  Change 'chord' to 'cord'
p. 284, line -6: Change CCD to  CDD
p. 290, line 4:  Change 'spins' to 'spin'
p. 291, line 6:  Change 23 to 26
p. 292, line 1:  Change 'loose' to 'lose'
p. 292, line 10:  Change 23 to 26
p. 292, line -14:  Change 'quote' to 'quoted'
p. 293, line 2:  Change 'deoxyhemoglobin' to 'deoxyhaemoglobin'
p. 294, line -14 (Problem 8.4, 2nd line):  Change 'measure' to 'measured'
p. 299, line 3:  Change 'spin' to 'spins'
p. 302, line -7:  Change 'nova' to 'novas'
p. 302, line -3:  Change 'nova' to 'novas'
p. 303, footnote 6, 1st line:  Insert 'the' after 'with'
p. 303, footnote 6, 4th line:  Change 'surprising' to 'surprisingly'
p. 304, line 19:  After Without insert going into
p. 304, line -17:  Delete 'is'
p. 304, line -9:  Change 'reduced' to 'reduce'
p. 304, line -4:  Change 'obtain' to 'obtained'
p. 308, line -6:  Insert 'a' after 'be'
p. 310, line 4:  Insert 'a' before 'mass'
p. 310, line 5:  Change 'opens' to 'open'
p. 312, line 10:  Capitalize 'm' in 'majorana' and change 'neurinos' to 'neutrinos '
p. 313, line 8:  Change the first 'that' to 'than'
p. 316, line -4:  Change 'colours' to 'colour'
p. 319, line 7:  Change 'boson' to 'bosons'
p. 320, line 14:  Change 'to' to 'too '
p. 322, line 6:  Change 'cosmologist' to 'cosmologists'
p. 324, line 23:  Change 'produce' to 'produced'
p. 324, footnote 18, 1st line:  After 'account' add 'for'
p. 324, footnote 18, 2nd line:  Change 'form' to 'formed'
p. 325, line -16:  The symbol before -nucleon is in wrong font
p. 325, line -10:  Change 'build' to 'built'
p. 328, line 11:  Italicize the subscript r in ½r
p. 328, line 15:  Change 'supernova' to 'supernovas'
p. 328, line -15  Change 'yield' to 'yielded' 
p. 328, line -6:  Change the comma after quantities
p. 329, line -14:  Add 'so'  after 'do'
p. 330, line 10:  Change 'outburst' to 'outbursts'
p. 331, line 17:  Change 'technique' to 'technique'
p. 333, line 11:  After 'possible' add 'to'
p. 335, line -9:  capitalize a to A to read: be required (~300 A)
p. 336, line 3:  Change 'power' to 'current'
p. 337, line 4:  Change 'system' to 'facility'
p. 337, lines -14 & -6 & -3:  Change 'ma' throughout to 'mA'
p. 349, line 1:  Change 'greed' to 'agree'
p. 357, line 4:  Change 'mesons' to 'meson'
p. 362, line 3:  After 'side' insert 'of'
p. 373, line 7:  Change 'manifest' to 'manifests'
p. 378, line 3:  In left column, after Tesla insert  = 1 T 
p. 392, Appendix E.3.2, 10th column, 3rd row entry for Z = 78 :  Change 'Platinium' to 'Platinum'  
p. 395, line -4:  Change capital C to lower case
p. 399, line -3:  Change 'effect' to 'affect'
p. 400, line -14 (Problem 2.14, 2nd line):  Change 'numbers' to 'number'
p. 415, line -9:  Change 'valance' to 'valence'
p. 419, line 4:  Change 'handiness' to 'handedness'
p. 421, line 1:  Change 'charge' to 'charged'
p. 424, line -5:  Change 'given' to 'give'
p. 428, line 1:  Insert 'NA' to read: where NA is Avogadro's number
p. 438, line 15 (Entry for Frois, 2nd line):  Change 'Bolgona' to 'Bologna'
p. 438, line 18:  Change 'Gaziorowicz' to 'Gasiorowicz'
p. 438, line -13:  Change 'Actnides' to 'Actinides'
p. 439, line 18 (Entry for Orito):  Insert (ed.)
p. 439, line -3 (Entry for Wu):  Change 'fears' to 'years'
p. 441, line -2:  Change the comma to a period
p. 442, line -17:  Change 'Das' to 'A. Das' 
p. 442, l. -13  Insert initial 'B.' before 'Povh' and change 'Rih' to 'Rith'
p. 442, line -9:  Change 'solutions' manual' to 'Solutions Manual'
p. 442, line -7: Change 'solutions' manual' to 'Solutions Manual'
p. 448, right column, line -5:  Change [italic vee ] to [Greek nu ]
p. 451, right column, line -17: reverse the accent on the e
p. 452, right column, line 6, Delete entry for Supernova:  page 316

End of list



Comments

p. 442, line -16:  There is now a 2nd (2003) edition of the book by book by Das and Ferbel.
p. 442, line -13:  There is now a 6th (2008) edition of the book by Povh et al.


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