Spring 2019 Syllabus
Nuclear Physics 605
Lectures on Tue. and Thu. 1:40-3:00 pm, ARC-203
(Reading refers to 3rd edition of textbook by Heyde)
lec date day Topic Reading
1 1/22 Tu The Nucleus and Nucleon Degrees of Freedom 1.1-1.5
2 1/24 Th Electric Multipoles of the Nucleus 1.6-1.7
3 1/29 Tu Nuclear Electric Quadrupole and Magnetic Dipole 1.6-1.7, Box 1b,1c.1e
4 1/31 Th Scattering Cross Section and Kinematics 1.8, Box 1b
5 2/5 Tu Liquid Drop Model, Nuclear Stability 7.1-7.3, Box 7a
6 2/7 Th Fermi Gas Model, White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars 8.1-8.3
7 2/12 Tu Single Particle Motion in a Central Potential 9.1-9.4
8 2/14 Th Shell Model with Spin-Orbit Interaction 9.5, Box 9b
9 2/19 Tu Hartree-Fock, Single Nucleon Density Observed 9.6
10 2/21 Th Vibrational Degrees of Freedom, Vibrational Spectrum 13.1
11 2/26 Tu Phonon Structure, E2-transitions, 114-Cd Spectrum Appendix C, 13.1
12 2/28 Th Rotational Degrees of Freedom, Moment of Inertia 13.2, Appendix B
13 3/5 Tu J,M,K Classification, Rotational Spectrum, see 242-Pu 13.2, Notes
14 3/7 Th Deformed Single Particle Motion, odd-A deformed nuclei 14.1
15 3/12 Tu &beta -Decay, Parity Non-Conservation, Fermi Theory 5.1, 5.5, Notes
16 3/14 Th &beta -Decay, Selection Rules, Lifetimes. 5.2, 5.3, 5.4.2,
xx 3/18 Spring Break
17 3/26 Tu Midterm Exam (lec 1-14).
18 3/28 Th Double &beta&beta -Decay, Neutrinos, Masses, Oscillations 5.4.2-5, Box 5b, Notes
19 4/2 Tu Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Symmetries, Deuteron Notes, Box 9a
20 4/4 Th N-N Scattering, Scattering Length, Phaseshifts Notes, Preston-Bhaduri 2
21 4/9 Tu Spin and Isospin Structure, Meson Exchange Forces Notes, Preston-Bhaduri 5
22 4/11 Th Nucleon Charge Form Factors, Dirac and Pauli. Notes, Thomas-Weise 2
23 4/16 Tu Sachs Form Factors, Charge Radius, Large Q^2 limit. Notes, Thomas-Weise 2
24 4/18 Th Deep Inelastic Scattering, Bjorken-x Scaling, Partons Notes, Thomas-Weise 4
25 4/23 Tu Quark Distribution Functions of the Nucleon, Sum Rules Notes, Thomas-Weise 4
26 4/25 Th Static Quark Model of Nucleons, Nucleon Resonances Notes, Bhaduri 1.3,1.4
27 4/30 Tu Excited Hadrons, Color-Spin-Flavor-Space Structure Notes, Bhaduri 1.4
28 5/2 Th Hadron properties Notes, Bhaduri 1.4
5/? Th due takehome Exam (lec 15-28)