Pre-Equilibrium Nuclear Reactions

This book gives a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the experimental and theoretical research that has been devoted, during the past 25 years, to the study of these pre-equilibrium reactions. After a historical introduction the theories of the reactions are described in detail. The multistep compound and multistep direct theories are considered separately, and all the theories are extensively compared with experimental data. The main emphasis of the book is on nucleon-induced reactions, but those due to composite particles and heavy ions are also considered.