Nuclear terminology

Subcommittee on Nuclear Terminology and Units. This concise glossary provides brief definitions of nuclear terms, including nuclear and reactor physics, health physics, and regulatory terms. Also includes an appendix on a classification system for reactors. 

Gronowitz et al. have discussed the effects of substituents on chemical reactivity and on ultraviolet (XJV), infrared (IR), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra in terms of simple resonance theory,They assume resonance structures (1-5) to contribute to a —I—M (Ingold s terminology) 2-substituted thiophene, resonance forms (6-10) to the structure of a drI-fM 2-substituted thiophene, forms (11-16) to a —I—M 3-substituted thiophene, and forms (17-22) to a I -M 3-substituted thiophene. 

While the broad mission of the National Bureau of Standards was concerned with standard reference materials, Dr. Isbell centered the work of his laboratory on his long interest in the carbohydrates and on the use of physical methods in their characterization. Infrared spectroscopy had shown promise in providing structural and conformational information on carbohydrates and their derivatives, and Isbell invited Tipson to conduct detailed infrared studies on the extensive collection of carbohydrate samples maintained by Isbell. The series of publications that rapidly resulted furnished a basis for assigning conformations to pyranoid sugars and their derivatives. Although this work was later to be overshadowed by application of the much more powerful technique of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the Isbell— Tipson work helped to define the molecular shapes involved and the terminology required for their description. 

This mechanism is identical to the one arising from the contact interaction between an unpaired electron and a nuclear spin (41). In that case, the hyperfine coupling (generally denoted by Asc or A and exists only if the electron density is non-zero at the considered nucleus, hence the terminology of contact ) replaces the J coupling and the earlier statement (i) may be untrue because it so happens that T becomes very short. In that case, dispersion curves provide some information about electronic relaxation. These points are discussed in detail in Section II.B of Chapter 2 and I.A.l of Chapter 3. 

Before turning to the principles involved, the reader should be aware of certain terminology which is basic to understanding the material presented in later chapters. Science is full of words which have very different connotations in the jargon of different disciplines. The present book is about particles and the term particle needs to be defined carefully within our context, to distinguish it from the way in which the nuclear physicist, for example, might use the word. For our purposes a particle is a self-contained body with maximum dimension... 

The Overhauser effect has been widely employed as an NMR analysis method in many disciplines ranging from medical to chemical sciences, and broadly refers to the motion-mediated transfer of spin polarization from a species with a higher gyromagnetic ratio (y) to one with a lower gyromagnetic ratio. Because molecular motion is critical for efficient transfer, the Overhauser effect is most commonly observed in liquid samples. The Overhauser effect can be divided into two categories the nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE), where both species are nuclear spins, and Overhauser DNP, where the higher y spin is an unpaired electron. As Overhauser DNP is the focus of this review, some of the terminology and equations are specific to the Overhauser DNP effect. 

In practice, spin is as real as mass and charge, and routinely measured spectroscopically by the techniques of electron and nuclear magnetic resonance. These measurements are done under widely different conditions and with minor interference between the two phenomena. As implied by the terminology, atomic spin is of two different types - separately associated with the nucleus and extranuclear electrons respectively. The theoretical challenge is how to describe these two independent rotations within the same body. 

The first paper dealing with the NMR determination of non-random distribution of deuterium appeared in 1981 and the site-specific natural isotope fractionation studied by nuclear magnetic resonance (SNIF-NMR) terminology was proposed.36 Since this time several review articles on application of deuterium and 13C NMR natural abundance spectroscopy were published.37 1... 

Fig. 2. The decomposition of AEsE.wf, irred. into terms appropriate for removing divergences and for numerical calculation. A photon line terminated by a cross denotes one interaction with the nuclear binding potential. The labels under the diagrams correspond to the terminology used in the text. The superscript in brackets indicates the number of interactions with the nuclear binding potential. For brevity the index irred. was omitted on all labels...

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