Assignment 1

Nuclear and particle Physics (PH507)

Bulk Nuclear Properties

1. Compute Nuclear form factor F (q) for the following nuclear charge distributions:
(i)
(r) = 0
= 0

for r R

(0 =

3Ze
)
4R3

for r > R

(ii)
(r) = Ze(

a2 3
a2 r 2
) 2 exp(
)
2
2

Also show that

1
F (q) ' 1 q 2 hr2 i
6

2. For uniformly charged sphere of radius R, show that the root mean square radius is
3
hr2 i = R2
5
3. Calculate the electrostatic energy of a charge Q distributed uniformly throughout a sphere
of radius R. Since

27 Si14

and

27 Al13

are Mirror Nuclei their ground states are identical excepting

for charge. If their mass difference is 6 MeV, estimate their Radius using above approximation.
4. Show that one can measure the difference in K X-Ray energies of two neighbouring isotopes
3

of A and A for 2p 1s transition to be proportional to A 2 as

E =

3
2 z 4 e2 2
03
R0 (A 2 A 2 )
3
5 40 a0

where R0 is the measure of charge radius of the Nucleus and a0 = 0.5 1010 m is the so called
Bohr radius.
5. A nuclear charge distribution is approximated to
(r) =

0
1 + exp( rR
a )

where R is called half density radius, a is diffusivity and 0 is the central density. Find the value of
a if skin thickness t = 2.3 fm. Evaluate root mean square radius hr2 i for such charge distribution.
1

6. From the known masses of 15 O and 15 N compute the difference in Binding Energy. Assuming
that the difference arises due to difference in Coulomb energy compute the nuclear radius of
and

15 O

15 N .

7. Show that to dissociate a proton requires more energy than to dissociate a neutron from
a heavy nuclei; i.e. the difference between proton separation energy (Sp ) and neutron separation
energy (Sn ) for heavy nuclei (A >> 1) is
4

Sp Sn ' 5.5 103 A 3

(Hint: Assume Semi-Emperical mass formula)
8. Of the nuclei mass number A = 125, which one of

125 Xe54 , 125 I 53 , 125 T e52 , 125 Sb51

has

maximum binding energy ? Assume ac = 0.7 MeV, asym = 22.5 MeV.

9. Ordinary Boron is a mixture of

10 B 5

and

11 B 5

isotopes and has a composite atomic mass

of 10.82 amu. What percentage of each isotope is present in ordinary Boron ? Given M (10 B) =
10.012937, M (11 B) = 11.009305 amu.