Nuclear Physics: Macroscopic aspects

Nuclear physics aspects of double beta decay

— Comprehensive description of the phenomenology of the ββ decay is given, with emphasis on the nuclear physics aspects. After a brief review of the neutrino oscillation results and of motivation to test the lepton number conservation, the mechanism of the 0νββ is discussed. Its relation to the lepton flavor violation involving charged leptons and its use as a diagnostic tool of the 0νββ mechan...

Some nuclear physics aspects of core-collapse supernovae

Here I review some nuclear physics aspects of core-collapse supernovae concerning neutrinos. Studies of neutrino emission and interactions in supernovae are crucial to our understanding of the explosion mechanism, the heavy element nucleosynthesis, and pulsar proper motions. I discuss the effects of reduced neutrino opacities in dense nuclear matter on supernova neutrino emission and their impl...

Microscopic and Macroscopic Physics of Earthquakes

Frictional melting and fluid pressurization can play a key role in rupture dynamics of large earthquakes. For faulting under frictional stress ar, the temperature increases with cr.r and the earthquake magnitude, Mw. If the thickness of the heated zone, w, is of the order of a few mm, then, even for a modest a1, the temperature rise, ll.T, would exceed 1000° for earthquakes with Mw=5 to 6, and ...

Nuclear Physics

the first importance. Behnke has demonstrated that the "lean body mass," since it represents the active tissue of a person, is superior to reference standards hitherto proposed for the estimation of physiological functions such as the masses of various organs and tissues and the volumes of the different fluid compartments in the body. In the present article, which has been reprinted as a short ...

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