PHY551, NUCLEAR PHYSICS I, Spring 2007
Prof.Edward Shuryak
(office C139, phone 632-8127)

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11:45-12:40 MWF (initial arrangement) C133

The first lecture will be Wed. Jan 24, 2007


The main objective of the course is to introduce graduate students, both theorists and experimentalists, to basic nuclear physics. As a minimal textbook I will use ``An Introduction to Nuclear Physics" by Cottingham and Greenwood, 2001, (Cambridge), which is thin and has basic problems. More modern elements (or those absent from this book, like Big Bang Nucleosynthesis) will be given from other sources as additional printouts. There would be few rounds of basic homework problems (60%) and a final exam (40% of the total grade).
Pre-requisites: undergraduate general course on Particle/Nuclear physics; Grad. Quantum mechanics

The particular topics to be discussed are:

  • Conservation laws and symmetries
  • QCD and its basics, electroweak Standard Model
  • The Nucleon and its properties
  • Mesons and inter-nucleon interaction
  • Nuclear ground states, the shell model
  • Transitions and multipoles
  • Collective excitations
  • Nuclear reactions
  • Nuclear power: Fission vs Fusion
  • Big Bang and Nucleosynthesis
  • The Sun and Stellar Nucleosynthesis
  • Radiation in Nature: alpha, beta and gamma
  • Supernovae and Neutron Stars