Research in nuclear physics

Articles about atomic nucleus study are gathered in this book. A first part takes stock of the great phenomena which marked the nuclear physic birth (fission, radioactivity, beta radioactivity). There are three central, parts in the book, following a plan which describes the research progress. In the second part, techniques and performances in different accelerators are described together with the physics concerned at each time. In the third part, the collision mechanisms between a target nucleus and the accelerator beam particle are examined. Articles about what has been learnt and what is tried to be known in the nucleus. The system structure is described at the equilibrium or in excited states which do not modify the equilibrium. This part ends with examination of the exotic forms of the nuclear matter. Applications are the object of the last part. Medicine is a preferential domain