Survey of Nuclear Physics 802/492
Spring 2016

Witek Nazarewicz and guest stars
TA: Terri Poxon-Pearson

Place: 1415 Biomedical & Physical Sciences
Time: M W F 9:10-10:00 am
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
Other resources:

 

LECTURE NOTES
Jan. 11: Introduction (1) Jan. 13: Introduction (2) Jan. 15: Introduction (3)
Symmetries (1)
Jan. 20: Symmetries (2) Jan. 22: Cancelled Jan. 25: Symmetries (3)
Jan. 27: Symmetries (4) Jan. 29: Symmetries (5) Feb. 1: Properties of nuclei: sizes (1)
Feb. 3: Properties of nuclei: sizes (2)
 Binding (1) 		Feb. 5: Properties of nuclei: binding (2) Feb. 8: Properties of nuclei: binding (3)
Feb. 10: Properties of nuclei: binding (4)
Shapes (1) 		Feb. 12: Fission (1) Feb. 15: Fission (2)
Feb. 17: Nucleonic Shells (1) Feb. 19 Nucleonic Shells (2) Feb. 22: Open Quantum Systems (1)
Feb. 24: Open Quantum Systems (2) Feb. 26: Alpha decay (1) Feb. 29: Alpha decay(2), proton decays
Mar. 2: Electromagnetic decay Mar. 4 Beta decay (1) Mar. 14: Beta decay (2)
Mar. 16: Beta decay (3) Mar. 18: Beta decay (4) Mar. 21: Neutrinos (1)
Mar. 23: Neutrinos (2), QCD (1) Mar. 25: QCD (2) Mar. 28: QCD (3), Hadrons (1)
Mar. 30: Hadrons (2) Apr. 1: Hadrons (3) Apr. 4: Nuclear Force (1)
Apr. 6: Nuclear Force (2) Apr. 8: Nuclear Force (3) Apr. 11: Nuclear Models (1)
Apr. 13: Nuclear Models (2) Apr. 15: Nuclear Models (3), Emergent Behavior of Nuclei Apr. 18: Collective Modes
Apr. 20: Rare Isotopes (1) Apr. 22: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (Pratt) Apr. 25: Nuclear Astrophysics (Schatz)
Apr. 27: Rare Isotopes (2) Apr. 29: FRIB/NSCL (Wrede) May 3: Final Exam
FINAL EXAM: PHY 802 presentations PHY 492 Sample Essay
May 3, 7:45-9:45am, 1415 BPS