Survey of Nuclear Physics 802/492
Spring 2017

Witek Nazarewicz and guest stars
TA: Mara Grinder

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. 9: Introduction (1) Jan. 11: Introduction (2) Jan. 13: Introduction (3)
Jan. 18: Symmetries (1) Jan. 20: Symmetries (2) Jan. 23: Symmetries (3)
Jan. 25: Symmetries (4) Jan. 27: Symmetries (5) Jan. 30: Properties of nuclei: sizes (1)
Feb. 1: Properties of nuclei: sizes (2) Feb. 3: Properties of nuclei: binding (1) Feb. 6: Properties of nuclei: binding (2)
Feb. 8: Properties of nuclei: binding (3) Feb. 10: Properties of nuclei: shapes Feb. 13: Fission (1)
Feb. 15: Fission (2) Feb. 17 Nucleonic shells (1) Feb. 20: Nucleonic shells (2)
Feb. 22: Open quantum systems (1) Feb. 24: Open quantum systems (2) Feb. 27: Open quantum systems (3)
Mar. 1: Alpha decay Mar. 3 Masses and moments via precision atomic physics techniques (G. Bollen) Mar. 13: Proton decay, EM decay (1)
Mar. 15: EM decay (2) Mar. 17: Beta decay (1) Mar. 20: Beta decay (2)
Mar. 22: Beta decay (3) Mar. 24: Beta decay (4) Mar. 27: Neutrino (1)
Mar. 29: Neutrino (2) Mar. 31: QCD (1) Apr. 3: QCD (2)
Apr. 5: Hadrons (1) Apr. 7: Hadrons (2) Apr. 10: Hadrons (3), LQCD
Apr. 12: Nuclear force (1) Apr. 14: Nuclear force (2) Apr. 17: Nuclear Many-Body Problem (1)
Apr. 19: Nuclear Many-Body Problem (2) Apr. 21: Nuclear Astrophysics (C. Wrede) Apr. 24: Nuclear Many-Body Problem (3)
Apr. 26: Collective Phenomena Apr. 28: Rare Isotope Science May 2: Final Exam
FINAL EXAM: PHY 802 presentations 2017 PHY 802 presentations 2016 PHY 492 Sample Essays
May 2, 2017, 7:45-9:45am, 1415 BPS; 10:00-11:00am 1300 Auditorium NSCL