PHYSICS 560       Nuclear Physics      Fall 2006

LECTURE SCHEDULE

  • Reading assignments are in:     NUCLEAR PHYSICS   by Samuel S. M. Wong
  • Homework assignments are to be handed in Friday at the end of the lecture.

    • [ Note: This schedule may change as the quarter develops ]


    Week  Lect  Date  Topics  Reading
    1  1-3  Sept 27-Sept 29
  • Lectures Week 1   (.ps)  
  • Introduction to Strong Interactions.
  • What is Nuclear Physics?
  • QCD, Nucleons, Pions
  • Isospin, Isospin Breaking
  • Assignment 1 due October 6
  • Solution 1
    		•  Wong
    Chapter 1 (all)
    Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
    2  4-6  Oct 2-6 Isospin continuued
    Scattering in central potential
    Assignment 2 due October 13
    		 Wong
    Appendix B
    Chapter 3.1
    3  7-9  Oct 9-13
  •  One Pion Exchange Potential
    		•  Wong
    Chapter 3
    4  10-12  Oct 16-20
  • Tensor force
  • Deuteron Wavefunction
  • ElectroMagnetic interactions and moments
    • Assignment 3 due October 23     		Wong
    Chapter 3
    5  13-15 Oct 23-27
  • Weisacker mass formula
  • Kelson-Garvey mass formula
  • Intro to Nuclear Matter
  • Intro to Single particle Shell -Model 
  • Assignment 4 due October 27
  • Assignment 5  due Nov 3
    		•  Wong
    Chapter 4
    6  16-18 Oct 30-Nov 3
    		Chapter 7
    7  19-21 Nov 6-10 Q and P operators
    Effective interactions
    Holes
    Vibrational excitations
    Veterans Day Nov 10.
    Assignment 6  due Nov 20
    8 22-24 Nov 13-17 Electromangnetic transitions
    B(E2) and B(M1) values
    		 tba 
    9  25-26 Nov 20-24 EM transitions between vibrational states
    Rotational states, EM transitions
    Nilsson Model
  • Thanks Giving Nov. 23-24 
  • Assignment 7  due Nov 29
    		•  Chap 7.6
    10  27-29 Nov 27-Dec 1
    		 Nilsson model
    alpha-decay
    fission
     Assignment 8  due Dec 8
    		 Chap 4.10, 4-11
    Chap 10

      11    		 30-31 Dec 4-Dec 8  HyperNuclear Physics
    Angular Correlations in gamma-decays
    Strong-CP problem, Peccei-Quinn symmetry
    Axion emission in nuclear transitions.
    		 Chap 8



    		Final Exam
    Solutions

      Final Exam: 8.30-10.20 Thursday Dec 14.

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