Course Code
P307
Credit
8
Total Hours
42 Lectures + 14 Tutorials
Outcome of the Course
Provides training in basic concepts and methods in nuclear physics, stability of nucleons and classification of interactions. The course prepares the student to begin working in experimental and theoretical high energy physics.
Approval
Syllabus
- Nuclear systematics and stability (masses, sizes, spins, magnetic moments, quadrupole moments, energetics and stability against particle emission, beta decay)
- Nucleon-nucleon interaction, space-time symmetries, conservation laws, iso-spin symmetry, low energy interactions (effective range, shape independence, meson exchange picture)
- Liquid drop model, compound nucleus and fission, nuclear vibrations and rotations
- Shell model, introduction to Hartree-Fock, spins and magnetic moments
- Direct nuclear reactions
- Mesons and baryons, resonances, SU(3) classification, iso-spin and strangeness, quark model, color
- Weak interactions (nuclear and particle decays, neutrinos)
Reference Books
- Introduction to Nuclear Physics by R. R. Roy and B. P. Nigam
- Structure of Nucleus by M. A. Preston and R. K. Bhaduri
- Introduction to Particle Physics by D. J. Griffith
- Introduction to Particle Physics by D. J. Perkins