Physics 561, Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Winter 2003

• Office: PAB B478
• Phone : (206)685-2988
• FAX :   (206) 685-9829
• E-mail: bulgac@phys.washington.edu

The class will meet TuTh 10:30 - 11:50 am in PAB B109

This course web page will likely change throughout the quarter and you are
advised to make a bookmark and consult it periodically.

There are no notes available at this time.

Besides regular lectures I would like to set up a weekly moderated meeting as well, where
students will discuss various problems, typically only partially covered in lectures but
assigned as home study projects.

I shall post here as well various problems, related material and additional information.

Textbook:
 
•    The Nuclear Many-Body Problem

   Peter Ring and Peter Schuck, Springer 1980.

    This text is out of print unfortunately. I have reserved however in the Physics Library two copies of the book.

Additional texts:
 

•    Nuclear Structure, vols. 1 and 2,

   A. Bohr and B. Mottelson

 This is classic reference and I  I shall use selectively various
 topics from these books. mainly from volume 2.
 

•    The Theory of Finite Fermi System and the Properties of Atomic Nuclei

   A.B. Migdal
 
•   Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics

  A.A. Abrikosov, L.P. Gorkov and I.E. Dzyaloshinski
 
•   Quantum Many-Body Systems

  J.W. Negele and H. Orland
 
•   Quantum Theory of Many Particle Systems

  A.L. Fetter and J.D. Walecka

I shall use selectively various topics from these monographs, in
particular the diagramatic technique, path integrals.
 

Topics:
 

• Brief introduction to diagramatic technique
• Hartree-Fock (HF) method, symmetries, dilute systems, Brueckner HF,

infinite nuclear matter, effective interactions, density functional theory
• Bogoliubov quasiparticles, Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB),

BCS approximation
• Time-depedent Hartee-Fock (TDHF), Random Phase Approximation (RPA),

broken symmetries and spurious modes, sum rules, polarizabilities, correlations,
constraint HF, finite temperature properties, level density
• Boson expansion methods, Generator Coordinate Method (GCM), Adiabatic TDHF,

restoration of broken symmetries, vibrational and rotational spectra, fission
• Semiclassical methods, Thomas-Fermi, Strutinsky shell-corrections
• Path integral methods
• Nuclear reactions, Distorted Wave Born Approximation, Eikonal approximation,

optical model, nuclear resonaces and random matrices, heavy ion reactions, kinetic
equations

The level of detail will vary, some topics will be treated in more detail than others.