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An accessible introduction to nuclear and particle physics with equal coverage of both topics, this text covers all the standard topics. Nucleons in nucleus behave not like particles, moving with momenta p but like waves with. Williams department of physics, university of oxford and st edmund hall, oxford. An introduction to nuclear physics, including issues related.
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