| 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) | |||||||||