{"id":195,"date":"2018-11-09T07:49:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T07:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=195"},"modified":"2019-04-29T09:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T09:38:47","slug":"nuclear-models-3","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/chapter\/nuclear-models-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Models-3"},"content":{"raw":"<div><span style=\"float: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/G2CCVKFW8O4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src=\"http:\/\/epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download.png\" alt=\"epgp books\" width=\"75px\" height=\"75px;\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 1. Applications of Liquid Drop Model<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe <em>Bethe-Weizsacker<\/em> Mass formula is given as\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-199 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-102.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"71\" \/>\r\n<div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On rearranging it and solving the equation for minimum mass, we get the mass parabola for a given isobar (A =constant) and has the lowest point at Z= Z<sub>0<\/sub>, and it would give the value of Z for most stable isobar<\/p>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-200\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-103.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"83\" \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Because of the presence of pairing energy term \u03b4 in the mass equation, the solution fall into two categories according to whether even-A or odd-A nuclei is taken into consideration. For odd-A nuclei the paring term (\u03b4) is zero, leading to a single parabola for both e-o and o-e nuclei<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-201 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-104.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"453\" \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Fig. 1: Mass parabola for even-A nuclei. The value corresponding to Z=Z<sub>0<\/sub>, indicates the most stable isobar<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">For <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">even-A nuclei<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> we get the following two conclusions<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">(1) No stable odd-odd nucleus is found. The change of mass with <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Z<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> makes two parabolas narrower and with steeper sides. However, exceptions are there such as <sup>2<\/sup>H<sub>1<\/sub>, <sup>6<\/sup>Li<sub>3<\/sub>, <sup>10<\/sup>B<sub>5<\/sub>, and <sup>14<\/sup>N<sub>7<\/sub>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">(2) Many <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">e-e<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> nuclei can have more than one stable isobar. Examples are <sup>40<\/sup>K, <sup>64<\/sup>Cu.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 2.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Stability of Nucleus<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLiquid drop model can also be used to find out the whether free nucleon decay is possible in case of \u03b2-decay or not. The \u03b2 decay occurs by three modes, negative-beta decay (\u03b2<sup>-<\/sup>), positive beta decay (\u03b2<sup>+<\/sup>), and electron capture (EC).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">2.1 Conditions for <em>\u03b2<\/em> decay<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The cause of the instability that leads to \u03b2-decay is an excess of energy if there is a way of getting rid of this excess energy, then the decay will take place.<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Therefore let us consider the case of energy balance in \u03b2 decay<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"><strong>\u03b2<\/strong> \u2212<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> Decay<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The energy balance equation for negative beta decay is<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">M<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">(<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Z<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">,<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">A<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">) =<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> M<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">(<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Z <\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">+ 1,<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> A<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">) c<sup>2<\/sup>\u2013<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> m<\/em><sub><em style=\"text-align: initial\">e<\/em><\/sub><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">c<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"><sup>2<\/sup> + Q<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Where <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">M is<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> the <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">nuclear mass<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> and <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> is the net energy released<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The reaction is possible only when it must satisfied the condition<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q&gt;0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Therefore the above equation becomes<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q = [<em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em>, <em>A<\/em>) \u2013 <em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em> + 1, <em>A<\/em>) \u2013 <em>m<\/em><\/strong><sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial\"><em>e<\/em><\/strong><\/sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">]<em>c<\/em><\/strong><sup><strong style=\"text-align: initial\">2<\/strong><\/sup><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> &gt; 0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">It means for \u03b2<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">-<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> decay to take place it is sufficient for the parent atom to have a mass greater than that of<\/span><\/p>\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">the daughter atom.<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">For<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"><strong>\u03b2<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><sup style=\"text-align: initial\">+<\/sup><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">decay the condition becomes<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q = [<em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em>, <em>A<\/em>) \u2013 <em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em> \u2013 1, <em>A<\/em>) \u2013 <em>m<\/em><\/strong><sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial\"><em>e<\/em><\/strong><\/sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">] <em>c<\/em><\/strong><sup><strong style=\"text-align: initial\">2<\/strong><\/sup><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> &gt; 0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">For Electron capture (EC)<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q<\/strong><sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial\">EC<\/strong><\/sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> = [<em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em>, <em>A<\/em>) \u2013 <em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em> \u2013 1, <em>A<\/em> ) + <em>m<\/em><\/strong><sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial\"><em>e<\/em><\/strong><\/sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">] <em>c<\/em><\/strong><sup><strong style=\"text-align: initial\">2<\/strong><\/sup><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> &gt;<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> 0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">2.2 Free Nucleon Decay<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Free Neutron Decay<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">A free neutron when undergoes \u03b2-decay, it has half-life of 898 seconds (\u03c4=898 seconds).<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The reaction equation of neutron decay in \u03b2-decay is<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-203\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-105.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"51\" \/>\r\n\r\nQ-value of this reaction is\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nQ<sub>\u03b2<\/sub> = [<em>M<\/em><sub><em>n<\/em><\/sub> \u2013 (<em>M<\/em><sub><em>p<\/em><\/sub>+ <em>m<\/em><sub><em>e<\/em><\/sub>)] <em>C<\/em><sup>2<\/sup>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n=\u00a0 [939.573 \u2013 (938.791 + 0.511)] MeV\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n=\u00a0 <strong>0.782 MeV &gt; 0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hence, we found that Q-value of this reaction is 0.782 MeV which is positive, so the condition for this reaction to go is fulfilled, hence this reaction is energetically possible and free decay of neutron is possible.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Free Proton Decay<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Similarly, we can check whether free decay of proton is possible or not. Reaction equation for free proton can be represented as<\/p>\r\np -&gt; n + e<sup>+\u00a0<\/sup>+ v<sub>e<\/sub>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q-value of this reaction is<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q<sub>\u03b2<\/sub> = [<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">M<\/em><sub><em style=\"text-align: initial\">p<\/em><\/sub><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> \u2013 (<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">M<\/em><sub><em style=\"text-align: initial\">n<\/em><\/sub><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">+<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">m<\/em><sub><em style=\"text-align: initial\">e<\/em><\/sub><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">)] <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">C<\/em><sup><span style=\"text-align: initial\">2<\/span><\/sup>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0=\u00a0 [938.791 \u2013 (939.573 + 0.511)] MeV<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0=\u00a0 <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">\u2013 1.293 MeV &lt; 0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Since, Q-value for this reaction turns out to be negative so this reaction is energetically not possible, it means that decay of free proton is not possible. It has good implications on the stability of protons which is must for existence of universe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Electron Capture in a Hydrogen Atom<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Reaction equation for electron captures is written as<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">e- + p\u00a0 -&gt;\u00a0 n +\u00a0 \u03bd<\/span><sub style=\"text-align: initial\">e<\/sub><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-204 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-106.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"348\" \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig. 2: Electron capture in an atom<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-205 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-107.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"609\" \/>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">\u00a0 \u00a0 3. Fission<\/strong><\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;font-size: 1em\">\u00a0 \u00a0 The semi-empirical mass formula can also be used to explain the phenomenon of nuclear fission and will be discussed here.<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em\">Nuclear fission is the result of the competition between the Coulomb energy and the surface tension. It is a special type of nuclear reaction in which an excited compound nucleus breaks up generally into two\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">fragments of comparable mass numbers and atomic numbers. Fission usually occurs amongst the isotopes of the heaviest elements, e.g., uranium, thorium etc.<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em;text-align: initial\">Nuclear fission was first discovered by the two German chemists Otto Hahn and F. Strassmann in 1939.<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-207 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-108.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"318\" \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig. 3: Representation of fission in a heavy nucleus using liquid drop model.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>3.1 Energy Released in Fission<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We can use the expression for the binding energy given by the liquid drop model to calculate energy released in fission.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLet nucleus (Z, A) in fission splits into two nuclei (Z<sub>1<\/sub>, A<sub>1<\/sub>) &amp; (Z<sub>2<\/sub>, A<sub>2<\/sub>)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nClearly Z = Z<sub>1<\/sub> + Z<sub>2<\/sub> and A = A<sub>1<\/sub> + A<sub>2<\/sub>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From liquid drop model writing the atomic masses in terms of the semi-empirical mass formula and ignoring the asymmetry energy and pairing energy terms. The energy released, E<sub>R<\/sub>, is the difference between the final and the initial binding energies.<\/p>\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-208 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-109.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"174\" \/>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the above equation first term is the volume energy which is cancels here, second term is the surface energy term which is different, and third term is the Coulomb energy term which is also different. So only surface and Coulomb energy terms appears in the energy released equation and there is a competition between only these terms, which is responsible for the splitting of heavy nuclei when the Coulomb energy exceeds the surface energy.<\/p>\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-210 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-110.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"362\" \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig. 4: Various stages of deformation leading to the final splitting of a liquid drop.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>3.2 Nuclear fission based on the liquid drop model<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">N. Bohr and J.A Wheeler put forward the theory of nuclear fission based on the liquid drop model of the nucleus.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">As in case of liquid drop if mechanical vibrations are set up within liquid drop, it can lead to the breakup of the drop. In order to do this, energy must be supplied from outside by some source. Since it is assumed that an atomic nucleus behaves like a charged liquid drop, similar vibrations may also be achieved in it if it gains some excitation energy which is possible if, for some instance the nucleus absorbs a neutron. The vibrations set up in the nucleus will deform it due to which its surface energy ES and electrostatic Coulomb energy EC are both changed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">As the fission process take place, the splitting of the nucleus is preceded by severe deformation of the original nucleus. The surface force tend to restore the original shape, while the Coulomb forces have the effect of increasing the deformation, because the surface energy is a minimum for the sphere while the Coulomb energy decreases with increased deformation. After the various stages of deformation when the Coulomb energy exceeds over surface energy, it will lead to the final splitting of a liquid drop into two fragments as shown in fig. 4.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">From the above equation we can see that fission becomes energetically possible as energy released ER changes its value from negative to positive with increasing A (i.e. when ER =0).<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-211 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-111.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"834\" height=\"68\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, the actual value turns out to be differ from this value and the fission does not appear at this value due to Coulomb Barrier, although it becomes energetically possible because of the\u201d Coulomb Barrier\u201d.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On substituting value for C1 and C2 and setting Z~ A\/2, shows that as per liquid drop model (LDM), the nuclei heavier than <strong>A~72<\/strong> are unstable against fission. Thus for nuclei for which A &gt; 72, spontaneous\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">fission should be energetically possible. In reality, however, this does not actually happen. Nuclei only start to fission spontaneously when A reaches ~240. The reason for this is due to barrier penetration problem; there is little probability of the fission to take place.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Nucleus will only fission <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">spontaneously<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> if separation energy is near the top of CB (Coulomb Barrier). Which happens only when<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-212 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-112.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"504\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Fig. 5: Fission and the Coulomb barrier<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">\u00a0 \u00a0 Summary<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The liquid drop model is able to explain many observed properties of the nucleus successfully. Using this model the average binding energy per nucleon curve can be fit well with accuracy (good to &lt; 1%). The Coulomb term calculations obtained with the semi-empirical mass formula agree well with experimental observed values, and is able to explain the valley of stability well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The decay of various unstable nuclei via selected modes can also be explained with the help of liquid drop model, and can explain the energetics of radioactive decays well. This model could also explain the process of fission and fusion well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"><em>References:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Introduction to Nuclear Physics \u2013 by Keneth S Krane.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Introductory Nuclear Physics \u2013 by Samuel S M Wong.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Nuclear Physics \u2013 by R R Roy &amp; B P Nigam.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Elementary Nuclear Theory by Hans A. Bethe and Phillip Morrison.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Carl Friedrich von Weizs\u00e4cker: Pioneer of Physics, Philosophy, Religion ... edited by Ulrich Bartosch<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Hans Bethe and His Physics By Gerald Edward Brown, Chang-Hwan Lee<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Introduction to Nuclear Physics, 2nd Edition, W.N.Cottingham &amp; D.A. Greenwood.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Concept of Nuclear Physics by B L Cohen, McGraw Hill.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Nuclear Physics ; an Introduction by S.B. Patel.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Exotic Nuclear Excitation by S.C. Pancholi<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Nuclear spectroscopy Part B, by Fay Ajzenberg- Selove<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Basic Ideas &amp; Concepts in Nuclear Physics \u2013 by K Heyde<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">5.\u00a0 Nuclear Physics by Irving Kaplan, Narosa Publishing House.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>\u00a0 \u00a0Web Links<\/em><\/strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umich.edu\/~ners311\/CourseLibrary\/bookchapter12.pdf\">http:\/\/www.umich.edu\/~ners311\/CourseLibrary\/bookchapter12.pdf<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6W24lyVE_hQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6W24lyVE_hQ<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FuTuvU2NTrM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FuTuvU2NTrM<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fysik.su.se\/~tegner\/Nuclear_Physics\/notes_2016\/f%C3%B6rel%C3%A4sning_2_160128.pdf\">http:\/\/www.fysik.su.se\/~tegner\/Nuclear_Physics\/notes_2016\/f%C3%B6rel%C3%A4sning_2_160128.pd<\/a> <a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fysik.su.se\/~tegner\/Nuclear_Physics\/notes_2016\/f%C3%B6rel%C3%A4sning_2_160128.pdf\">f<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jWdBvJwX_ZI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jWdBvJwX_ZI<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3bwcXPmF2VA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3bwcXPmF2VA<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8vMwzkOi0v4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8vMwzkOi0v4<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bitlanders.com\/blogs\/liquid-drop-model-of-nucleus-and-fission-process\/258529\">http:\/\/www.bitlanders.com\/blogs\/liquid-drop-model-of-nucleus-and-fission-process\/258529<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aftOY3OkAgA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aftOY3OkAgA<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u-yonXTJP6I\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u-yonXTJP6I<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j7VMZk1sISU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j7VMZk1sISU<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r40h66qiF5I\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r40h66qiF5I<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/indico.mpp.mpg.de\/event\/323\/material\/slides\/0.pdf\">https:\/\/indico.mpp.mpg.de\/event\/323\/material\/slides\/0.pdf<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/383454\/files\/9903523.pdf\">http:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/383454\/files\/9903523.pdf<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/0375947478905912\">http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/0375947478905912<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.48.918\">http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.48.918<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/faculty.cua.edu\/sober\/635\/scattering_theory.pdf\">http:\/\/faculty.cua.edu\/sober\/635\/scattering_theory.pdf<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/0704.1024v1.pdf\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/0704.1024v1.pdf<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pr\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRev.130.2025\">http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pr\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRev.130.2025<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>Did you know ?<\/strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">An important application of liquid drop model is to transform the nuclear binding energy into thermal and electrical energy by the fission mechanism.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The fragmentation of a heavy nucleus into two medium mass fragments plus accessory products is called nuclear fission.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The fission is induced in the nucleus by absorption of a low energy neutron.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Low energy neutrons can penetrate inside the nucleus since they do not feel Coulomb repulsion. This way they increase the nuclear mass and the excited nucleus may break up into two daughter nuclei of smaller mass.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Nuclear fission stay in the domain of a heavy matter nuclei and this is due to the shape of the binding energy per nucleon as a function of the mass number.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Beyond the iron group, the binding energy per nucleon decreases steadily such that binding energy can be gained by splitting a heavy nucleus into two nuclei in a more or less symmetric way. Thus, a less tightly bound nucleus can gain binding energy by splitting it into two lighter, more tightly bound ones.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The energy released by fission is typically 0.9 MeV per nucleon. One gram of U-235 contains about 3<\/span>1021 nuclei. The complete fission of all of these nuclei would release the impressive energy of 1011 joules, about one megawatt a day.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">One gram of U-235 contains as much nuclear energy as three tons of coal contain in chemical energy. We can understand the nuclear fission qualitatively and quantitatively using the liquid drop model of the nucleus.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The liquid drop model presumes a spherical shape of the nucleus. But for a heavy nucleus a small external perturbation like for instance an incident neutron can produce surface waves leading to a change in shape. The drop may thus extend into spheroidal shape and if this perturbation is small enough, the nucleus will be left excited and just return to its ground state by emitting a photon. This process is called radiative neutron capture.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">If the perturbation is large, Coulomb repulsion along the axis of this spheroid can split the drop into two droplets by what is called induced fission.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">For the binding energy, the volume term stays constant, but the surface and Coulomb energy are different. The deformation increases this surface energy but decreases the Coulomb term. So the gain or loss in binding energy will depend on the relative importance of these two terms. If the difference is greater than 0, the spherical nucleus is more tightly bound and thus stable against this small perturbation. If on the contrary, the difference is less than zero, the spherical nucleus is less tightly bound and can undergo fission.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The spherical shape nuclei may be stable against fission but it remains energetically favorable for the parent nucleus to split into two smaller ones, when it is sufficiently perturbed. Beyond this, even a minor perturbation by a thermal neutron, for instance, will suffice to cause fission.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The radioactive decay occurs because the fragment nuclei produced have a <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">neutron excess<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">. The heavy nuclei have more neutrons per proton than lighter nuclei and so when a heavy nucleus splits in two during fissionj, the product nuclei will either have to shed neutrons or transform them into protons in order to achieve a distribution of nucleons which forms a stable nucleus.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Liquid Drop model<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> has been successfully employed in examining what type of distortion leads to fission. There are certain critical shapes at which a <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">narrow neck<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> between two proto fragments appears. This is known as the <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">scission point<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">At low excitation there is hardly enough energy to drive the two fragments of the nucleus apart and the process of division will only proceed if as much binding energy as possible is transformed into the motion separating them out. Thus the individual nucleons settle into the lowest energy configurations.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">In fission, there is a strong tendency to produce a heavy fragment of <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">A ~ 140<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> with double magic numbers <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">N = 82<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> and <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Z = 50<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>you can view video on Nuclear Models-3<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/G2CCVKFW8O4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-120\" src=\"http:\/\/epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 Biography:<\/em><\/strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Bethe\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Bethe<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Bethe.html\">http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Bethe.html<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/1963\/wigner-bio.html\">http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/1963\/wigner-bio.html<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefamouspeople.com\/profiles\/hans-bethe-6308.php\">http:\/\/www.thefamouspeople.com\/profiles\/hans-bethe-6308.php<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/2007\/may\/01\/carl-friedrich-von-weizsaecker-1912-to-2007\">http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/2007\/may\/01\/carl-friedrich-von-weizsaecker-1912-to-2007<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goethe.de\/en\/kul\/wis\/20365451.html\">https:\/\/www.goethe.de\/en\/kul\/wis\/20365451.html<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/physicstoday.scitation.org\/do\/10.1063\/PT.4.2117\/full\/\">http:\/\/physicstoday.scitation.org\/do\/10.1063\/PT.4.2117\/full\/<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div><span style=\"float: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/G2CCVKFW8O4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download.png\" alt=\"epgp books\" width=\"75px\" height=\"75px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 1. Applications of Liquid Drop Model<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Bethe-Weizsacker<\/em> Mass formula is given as<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-199 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-102.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-102.png 829w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-102-300x26.png 300w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-102-768x66.png 768w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-102-65x6.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-102-225x19.png 225w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-102-350x30.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On rearranging it and solving the equation for minimum mass, we get the mass parabola for a given isobar (A =constant) and has the lowest point at Z= Z<sub>0<\/sub>, and it would give the value of Z for most stable isobar<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-200\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-103.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-103.png 270w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-103-65x20.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-103-225x69.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Because of the presence of pairing energy term \u03b4 in the mass equation, the solution fall into two categories according to whether even-A or odd-A nuclei is taken into consideration. For odd-A nuclei the paring term (\u03b4) is zero, leading to a single parabola for both e-o and o-e nuclei<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-201 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-104.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-104.png 490w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-104-300x277.png 300w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-104-65x60.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-104-225x208.png 225w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-104-350x324.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Fig. 1: Mass parabola for even-A nuclei. The value corresponding to Z=Z<sub>0<\/sub>, indicates the most stable isobar<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">For <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">even-A nuclei<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> we get the following two conclusions<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">(1) No stable odd-odd nucleus is found. The change of mass with <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Z<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> makes two parabolas narrower and with steeper sides. However, exceptions are there such as <sup>2<\/sup>H<sub>1<\/sub>, <sup>6<\/sup>Li<sub>3<\/sub>, <sup>10<\/sup>B<sub>5<\/sub>, and <sup>14<\/sup>N<sub>7<\/sub>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">(2) Many <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">e-e<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> nuclei can have more than one stable isobar. Examples are <sup>40<\/sup>K, <sup>64<\/sup>Cu.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 2.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Stability of Nucleus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Liquid drop model can also be used to find out the whether free nucleon decay is possible in case of \u03b2-decay or not. The \u03b2 decay occurs by three modes, negative-beta decay (\u03b2<sup>&#8211;<\/sup>), positive beta decay (\u03b2<sup>+<\/sup>), and electron capture (EC).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">2.1 Conditions for <em>\u03b2<\/em> decay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The cause of the instability that leads to \u03b2-decay is an excess of energy if there is a way of getting rid of this excess energy, then the decay will take place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Therefore let us consider the case of energy balance in \u03b2 decay<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"><strong>\u03b2<\/strong> \u2212<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> Decay<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The energy balance equation for negative beta decay is<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">M<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">(<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Z<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">,<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">A<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">) =<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> M<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">(<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Z <\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">+ 1,<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> A<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">) c<sup>2<\/sup>\u2013<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> m<\/em><sub><em style=\"text-align: initial\">e<\/em><\/sub><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">c<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"><sup>2<\/sup> + Q<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Where <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">M is<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> the <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">nuclear mass<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> and <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> is the net energy released<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The reaction is possible only when it must satisfied the condition<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q&gt;0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Therefore the above equation becomes<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q = [<em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em>, <em>A<\/em>) \u2013 <em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em> + 1, <em>A<\/em>) \u2013 <em>m<\/em><\/strong><sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial\"><em>e<\/em><\/strong><\/sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">]<em>c<\/em><\/strong><sup><strong style=\"text-align: initial\">2<\/strong><\/sup><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> &gt; 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">It means for \u03b2<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">&#8211;<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> decay to take place it is sufficient for the parent atom to have a mass greater than that of<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">the daughter atom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">For<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"><strong>\u03b2<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><sup style=\"text-align: initial\">+<\/sup><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">decay the condition becomes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q = [<em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em>, <em>A<\/em>) \u2013 <em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em> \u2013 1, <em>A<\/em>) \u2013 <em>m<\/em><\/strong><sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial\"><em>e<\/em><\/strong><\/sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">] <em>c<\/em><\/strong><sup><strong style=\"text-align: initial\">2<\/strong><\/sup><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> &gt; 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">For Electron capture (EC)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q<\/strong><sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial\">EC<\/strong><\/sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> = [<em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em>, <em>A<\/em>) \u2013 <em>M<\/em> (<em>Z<\/em> \u2013 1, <em>A<\/em> ) + <em>m<\/em><\/strong><sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial\"><em>e<\/em><\/strong><\/sub><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">] <em>c<\/em><\/strong><sup><strong style=\"text-align: initial\">2<\/strong><\/sup><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> &gt;<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">2.2 Free Nucleon Decay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Free Neutron Decay<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">A free neutron when undergoes \u03b2-decay, it has half-life of 898 seconds (\u03c4=898 seconds).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The reaction equation of neutron decay in \u03b2-decay is<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-203\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-105.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-105.png 216w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-105-65x15.png 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Q-value of this reaction is<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Q<sub>\u03b2<\/sub> = [<em>M<\/em><sub><em>n<\/em><\/sub> \u2013 (<em>M<\/em><sub><em>p<\/em><\/sub>+ <em>m<\/em><sub><em>e<\/em><\/sub>)] <em>C<\/em><sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>=\u00a0 [939.573 \u2013 (938.791 + 0.511)] MeV<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>=\u00a0 <strong>0.782 MeV &gt; 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hence, we found that Q-value of this reaction is 0.782 MeV which is positive, so the condition for this reaction to go is fulfilled, hence this reaction is energetically possible and free decay of neutron is possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Free Proton Decay<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Similarly, we can check whether free decay of proton is possible or not. Reaction equation for free proton can be represented as<\/p>\n<p>p -&gt; n + e<sup>+\u00a0<\/sup>+ v<sub>e<\/sub><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q-value of this reaction is<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Q<sub>\u03b2<\/sub> = [<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">M<\/em><sub><em style=\"text-align: initial\">p<\/em><\/sub><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> \u2013 (<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">M<\/em><sub><em style=\"text-align: initial\">n<\/em><\/sub><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">+<\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">m<\/em><sub><em style=\"text-align: initial\">e<\/em><\/sub><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">)] <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">C<\/em><sup><span style=\"text-align: initial\">2<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0=\u00a0 [938.791 \u2013 (939.573 + 0.511)] MeV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0=\u00a0 <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">\u2013 1.293 MeV &lt; 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Since, Q-value for this reaction turns out to be negative so this reaction is energetically not possible, it means that decay of free proton is not possible. It has good implications on the stability of protons which is must for existence of universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Electron Capture in a Hydrogen Atom<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Reaction equation for electron captures is written as<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">e- + p\u00a0 -&gt;\u00a0 n +\u00a0 \u03bd<\/span><sub style=\"text-align: initial\">e<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-204 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-106.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-106.png 435w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-106-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-106-65x52.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-106-225x180.png 225w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-106-350x280.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig. 2: Electron capture in an atom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-205 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-107.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-107.png 804w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-107-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-107-768x582.png 768w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-107-65x49.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-107-225x170.png 225w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-107-350x265.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">\u00a0 \u00a0 3. Fission<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;font-size: 1em\">\u00a0 \u00a0 The semi-empirical mass formula can also be used to explain the phenomenon of nuclear fission and will be discussed here.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em\">Nuclear fission is the result of the competition between the Coulomb energy and the surface tension. It is a special type of nuclear reaction in which an excited compound nucleus breaks up generally into two\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">fragments of comparable mass numbers and atomic numbers. Fission usually occurs amongst the isotopes of the heaviest elements, e.g., uranium, thorium etc.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em;text-align: initial\">Nuclear fission was first discovered by the two German chemists Otto Hahn and F. Strassmann in 1939.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-207 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-108.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-108.png 643w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-108-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-108-65x32.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-108-225x111.png 225w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-108-350x173.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig. 3: Representation of fission in a heavy nucleus using liquid drop model.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.1 Energy Released in Fission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We can use the expression for the binding energy given by the liquid drop model to calculate energy released in fission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let nucleus (Z, A) in fission splits into two nuclei (Z<sub>1<\/sub>, A<sub>1<\/sub>) &amp; (Z<sub>2<\/sub>, A<sub>2<\/sub>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Clearly Z = Z<sub>1<\/sub> + Z<sub>2<\/sub> and A = A<sub>1<\/sub> + A<sub>2<\/sub><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From liquid drop model writing the atomic masses in terms of the semi-empirical mass formula and ignoring the asymmetry energy and pairing energy terms. The energy released, E<sub>R<\/sub>, is the difference between the final and the initial binding energies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-208 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-109.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-109.png 833w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-109-300x63.png 300w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-109-768x160.png 768w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-109-65x14.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-109-225x47.png 225w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-109-350x73.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the above equation first term is the volume energy which is cancels here, second term is the surface energy term which is different, and third term is the Coulomb energy term which is also different. So only surface and Coulomb energy terms appears in the energy released equation and there is a competition between only these terms, which is responsible for the splitting of heavy nuclei when the Coulomb energy exceeds the surface energy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-210 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-110.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-110.png 594w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-110-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-110-65x40.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-110-225x137.png 225w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-110-350x213.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig. 4: Various stages of deformation leading to the final splitting of a liquid drop.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.2 Nuclear fission based on the liquid drop model<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">N. Bohr and J.A Wheeler put forward the theory of nuclear fission based on the liquid drop model of the nucleus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">As in case of liquid drop if mechanical vibrations are set up within liquid drop, it can lead to the breakup of the drop. In order to do this, energy must be supplied from outside by some source. Since it is assumed that an atomic nucleus behaves like a charged liquid drop, similar vibrations may also be achieved in it if it gains some excitation energy which is possible if, for some instance the nucleus absorbs a neutron. The vibrations set up in the nucleus will deform it due to which its surface energy ES and electrostatic Coulomb energy EC are both changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">As the fission process take place, the splitting of the nucleus is preceded by severe deformation of the original nucleus. The surface force tend to restore the original shape, while the Coulomb forces have the effect of increasing the deformation, because the surface energy is a minimum for the sphere while the Coulomb energy decreases with increased deformation. After the various stages of deformation when the Coulomb energy exceeds over surface energy, it will lead to the final splitting of a liquid drop into two fragments as shown in fig. 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">From the above equation we can see that fission becomes energetically possible as energy released ER changes its value from negative to positive with increasing A (i.e. when ER =0).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-211 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-111.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"834\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-111.png 834w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-111-300x24.png 300w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-111-768x63.png 768w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-111-65x5.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-111-225x18.png 225w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-111-350x29.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, the actual value turns out to be differ from this value and the fission does not appear at this value due to Coulomb Barrier, although it becomes energetically possible because of the\u201d Coulomb Barrier\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On substituting value for C1 and C2 and setting Z~ A\/2, shows that as per liquid drop model (LDM), the nuclei heavier than <strong>A~72<\/strong> are unstable against fission. Thus for nuclei for which A &gt; 72, spontaneous\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">fission should be energetically possible. In reality, however, this does not actually happen. Nuclei only start to fission spontaneously when A reaches ~240. The reason for this is due to barrier penetration problem; there is little probability of the fission to take place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Nucleus will only fission <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">spontaneously<\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> if separation energy is near the top of CB (Coulomb Barrier). Which happens only when<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-212 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp04.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-112.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-112.png 725w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-112-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-112-65x45.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-112-225x156.png 225w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/11\/Untitled-112-350x243.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Fig. 5: Fission and the Coulomb barrier<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">\u00a0 \u00a0 Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The liquid drop model is able to explain many observed properties of the nucleus successfully. Using this model the average binding energy per nucleon curve can be fit well with accuracy (good to &lt; 1%). The Coulomb term calculations obtained with the semi-empirical mass formula agree well with experimental observed values, and is able to explain the valley of stability well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The decay of various unstable nuclei via selected modes can also be explained with the help of liquid drop model, and can explain the energetics of radioactive decays well. This model could also explain the process of fission and fusion well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"><em>References:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Introduction to Nuclear Physics \u2013 by Keneth S Krane.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Introductory Nuclear Physics \u2013 by Samuel S M Wong.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Nuclear Physics \u2013 by R R Roy &amp; B P Nigam.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Elementary Nuclear Theory by Hans A. Bethe and Phillip Morrison.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Carl Friedrich von Weizs\u00e4cker: Pioneer of Physics, Philosophy, Religion &#8230; edited by Ulrich Bartosch<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Hans Bethe and His Physics By Gerald Edward Brown, Chang-Hwan Lee<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Introduction to Nuclear Physics, 2nd Edition, W.N.Cottingham &amp; D.A. Greenwood.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Concept of Nuclear Physics by B L Cohen, McGraw Hill.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Nuclear Physics ; an Introduction by S.B. Patel.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Exotic Nuclear Excitation by S.C. Pancholi<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Nuclear spectroscopy Part B, by Fay Ajzenberg- Selove<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Basic Ideas &amp; Concepts in Nuclear Physics \u2013 by K Heyde<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">5.\u00a0 Nuclear Physics by Irving Kaplan, Narosa Publishing House.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0 \u00a0Web Links<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umich.edu\/~ners311\/CourseLibrary\/bookchapter12.pdf\">http:\/\/www.umich.edu\/~ners311\/CourseLibrary\/bookchapter12.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6W24lyVE_hQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6W24lyVE_hQ<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FuTuvU2NTrM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FuTuvU2NTrM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fysik.su.se\/~tegner\/Nuclear_Physics\/notes_2016\/f%C3%B6rel%C3%A4sning_2_160128.pdf\">http:\/\/www.fysik.su.se\/~tegner\/Nuclear_Physics\/notes_2016\/f%C3%B6rel%C3%A4sning_2_160128.pd<\/a> <a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fysik.su.se\/~tegner\/Nuclear_Physics\/notes_2016\/f%C3%B6rel%C3%A4sning_2_160128.pdf\">f<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jWdBvJwX_ZI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jWdBvJwX_ZI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3bwcXPmF2VA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3bwcXPmF2VA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8vMwzkOi0v4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8vMwzkOi0v4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bitlanders.com\/blogs\/liquid-drop-model-of-nucleus-and-fission-process\/258529\">http:\/\/www.bitlanders.com\/blogs\/liquid-drop-model-of-nucleus-and-fission-process\/258529<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aftOY3OkAgA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aftOY3OkAgA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u-yonXTJP6I\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u-yonXTJP6I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j7VMZk1sISU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j7VMZk1sISU<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r40h66qiF5I\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r40h66qiF5I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/indico.mpp.mpg.de\/event\/323\/material\/slides\/0.pdf\">https:\/\/indico.mpp.mpg.de\/event\/323\/material\/slides\/0.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/383454\/files\/9903523.pdf\">http:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/383454\/files\/9903523.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/0375947478905912\">http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/0375947478905912<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.48.918\">http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.48.918<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/faculty.cua.edu\/sober\/635\/scattering_theory.pdf\">http:\/\/faculty.cua.edu\/sober\/635\/scattering_theory.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/0704.1024v1.pdf\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/0704.1024v1.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pr\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRev.130.2025\">http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pr\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRev.130.2025<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>Did you know ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">An important application of liquid drop model is to transform the nuclear binding energy into thermal and electrical energy by the fission mechanism.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The fragmentation of a heavy nucleus into two medium mass fragments plus accessory products is called nuclear fission.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The fission is induced in the nucleus by absorption of a low energy neutron.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Low energy neutrons can penetrate inside the nucleus since they do not feel Coulomb repulsion. This way they increase the nuclear mass and the excited nucleus may break up into two daughter nuclei of smaller mass.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Nuclear fission stay in the domain of a heavy matter nuclei and this is due to the shape of the binding energy per nucleon as a function of the mass number.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Beyond the iron group, the binding energy per nucleon decreases steadily such that binding energy can be gained by splitting a heavy nucleus into two nuclei in a more or less symmetric way. Thus, a less tightly bound nucleus can gain binding energy by splitting it into two lighter, more tightly bound ones.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The energy released by fission is typically 0.9 MeV per nucleon. One gram of U-235 contains about 3<\/span>1021 nuclei. The complete fission of all of these nuclei would release the impressive energy of 1011 joules, about one megawatt a day.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">One gram of U-235 contains as much nuclear energy as three tons of coal contain in chemical energy. We can understand the nuclear fission qualitatively and quantitatively using the liquid drop model of the nucleus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The liquid drop model presumes a spherical shape of the nucleus. But for a heavy nucleus a small external perturbation like for instance an incident neutron can produce surface waves leading to a change in shape. The drop may thus extend into spheroidal shape and if this perturbation is small enough, the nucleus will be left excited and just return to its ground state by emitting a photon. This process is called radiative neutron capture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">If the perturbation is large, Coulomb repulsion along the axis of this spheroid can split the drop into two droplets by what is called induced fission.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">For the binding energy, the volume term stays constant, but the surface and Coulomb energy are different. The deformation increases this surface energy but decreases the Coulomb term. So the gain or loss in binding energy will depend on the relative importance of these two terms. If the difference is greater than 0, the spherical nucleus is more tightly bound and thus stable against this small perturbation. If on the contrary, the difference is less than zero, the spherical nucleus is less tightly bound and can undergo fission.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The spherical shape nuclei may be stable against fission but it remains energetically favorable for the parent nucleus to split into two smaller ones, when it is sufficiently perturbed. Beyond this, even a minor perturbation by a thermal neutron, for instance, will suffice to cause fission.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The radioactive decay occurs because the fragment nuclei produced have a <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">neutron excess<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">. The heavy nuclei have more neutrons per proton than lighter nuclei and so when a heavy nucleus splits in two during fissionj, the product nuclei will either have to shed neutrons or transform them into protons in order to achieve a distribution of nucleons which forms a stable nucleus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Liquid Drop model<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> has been successfully employed in examining what type of distortion leads to fission. There are certain critical shapes at which a <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">narrow neck<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> between two proto fragments appears. This is known as the <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">scission point<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">At low excitation there is hardly enough energy to drive the two fragments of the nucleus apart and the process of division will only proceed if as much binding energy as possible is transformed into the motion separating them out. Thus the individual nucleons settle into the lowest energy configurations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">In fission, there is a strong tendency to produce a heavy fragment of <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">A ~ 140<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> with double magic numbers <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">N = 82<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\"> and <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Z = 50<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>you can view video on Nuclear Models-3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/G2CCVKFW8O4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-120\" src=\"http:\/\/epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 Biography:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Bethe\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Bethe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Bethe.html\">http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Bethe.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/1963\/wigner-bio.html\">http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/1963\/wigner-bio.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefamouspeople.com\/profiles\/hans-bethe-6308.php\">http:\/\/www.thefamouspeople.com\/profiles\/hans-bethe-6308.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/2007\/may\/01\/carl-friedrich-von-weizsaecker-1912-to-2007\">http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/2007\/may\/01\/carl-friedrich-von-weizsaecker-1912-to-2007<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goethe.de\/en\/kul\/wis\/20365451.html\">https:\/\/www.goethe.de\/en\/kul\/wis\/20365451.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/physicstoday.scitation.org\/do\/10.1063\/PT.4.2117\/full\/\">http:\/\/physicstoday.scitation.org\/do\/10.1063\/PT.4.2117\/full\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"menu_order":11,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["dr-sanjay-kumar-chamoli"],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[58],"license":[],"class_list":["post-195","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-dr-sanjay-kumar-chamoli"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/195\/revisions\/351"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/195\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}