Rutherford Centennial Conference on Nuclear Physics

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 ...

Nuclear physics.

11th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering

A comprehensive study on the effects of energetic protons on carbon fiber composites and compounds under consideration for use as low-Z pion production targets in future high power accelerators and lowimpedance collimating elements for intercepting TeV-level protons at the Large Hadron Collider has been undertaken addressing two key areas namely thermal shock absorption and resistance to irradi...

Second Sino-American Conference on Nuclear Medicine.

N uclear medicine professionals from the United States and China met in New Orleans, LA, January 23–27, for the Second Sino-American Conference on Nuclear Medicine. The conference was held in conjunction with the 2013 SNMMI Mid-Winter Meeting and the annual meeting of the American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM). The previous conference was hosted by the Chinese Society of Nuclear Medicine (...

Rutherford Scattering

A great deal of what is known about the atomic nucleus has been deduced from the analysis of scattering experiments done with charged particles and neutrons. The first such experiments were performed with alpha particles from naturally radioactive substances, the counting of the scattered particles being done by visual observation of the scintillations (faint flashes of light) from a zinc sulfi...