Survey of Nuclear Physics 802/492
Spring 2015

Witek Nazarewicz and guest stars
Assistants: Yannen Jaganathen and Bastian Schütrumpf
TA: Jennifer Glick

Place: 1420 Biomedical & Physical Sciences
Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 8:55-10:00 am
Fridays 9:05-10:00 am: Jan. 30, Feb. 13, Feb. 20, Mar. 6, Mar. 27, Apr. 24
SYLLABUS
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REFERENCES
Recommended textbooks:
Supplementary texts:
  • "Introductory Nuclear Physics", Samuel S. M. Wong (Wiley-Interscience, 1998/99) Library Catalog QC776.W66, ISBN: 0471239739
  • "Basic Ideas and Concepts in Nuclear Physics", K. Heyde, (CRC Press, 2005), ISBN: 0750309806

 

LECTURE NOTES
Jan. 12: Introduction (1) Jan. 14: Introduction (2)
Symmetries (1) 		Jan. 21: Symmetries (2)
Jan. 26: Symmetries (3) Jan. 28: Properties of nuclei: sizes (1) Jan. 30: Properties of nuclei: sizes (2), masses (1)
Feb. 4: Properties of nuclei: masses (2) Feb. 9: Properties of nuclei: masses (3) Feb. 11: Properties of nuclei: shapes, fission
Feb. 13: Nucleonic shells (1) Feb. 16: Nucleonic shells (2) Feb. 18: Open Quantum Systems (1)
Feb. 20: Open Quantum Systems (2) Feb. 23: Alpha decay Feb. 25: Electromagnetic decay
Mar. 2: Beta decay (1) Mar. 4: Beta decay (2) Mar. 6: Beta decay (3), neutrino (1)
Mar. 16: Neutrino (2) Mar. 18: QCD, introduction (1) Mar. 23: QCD, introduction (2)
Mar. 25: Quark Model (1) Mar. 27 Quark Model (2) Mar. 30: Lattice QCD, hadron structure
Apr. 1: Reactions survey (Nunes) Apr. 6: Nuclear force (1) Apr. 8: Nuclear force (2)
Apr. 13: Few body systems Apr. 15: Many body systems Apr. 20: Nuclear astrophysics (Brown)
Apr. 22: Nuclear collective motion Apr. 24: Relativistic Heavy Ions (Pratt) Apr. 27, 29: Rare isotopes
FINAL EXAM (PHY 802 presentations)
May 5, 7:45-9:45am, 1420 BPS
May 8, 12:45-2:45 1300 BPS
Ground Rules