Course Identification
Physics module: Nuclear and particle physics
Lecturers and Teaching Assistants
Dr. Hagar Landsman
Course Schedule and Location
Second Semester
Tuesday, 15:00 - 18:00
11/05/2021
Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points
Science Teaching (non thesis MSc Track): Lecture; Obligatory; Regular; 2.00 points
Attendance and participation
Scheduled date 1
19/07/2021
Scheduled date 2
02/08/2021
Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)
Syllabus
- Basic concepts: units and Natural units, scales, scattering cross section, reletavistic variables
- Nuclear Phenomenology: sizes, masses, shapes and stability of nuclei
- Liquid drop and shell models of nuclei. Nuclear decay modes, including alpha, beta and fission decay.
- Applications of nuclear physics
- Properties of hadrons, internal symmetries and strong forces, with emphasis on isospin and nuclear interactions.
- The particle zoo and the hunt for constituents. Quark model of hadrons, flavour and colour.
- Particle detectors and accelerator
- Experimental techniques in high energy physics.
* Subject to change as the course progresses.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:
- Demonstrate proficiency in the area of subatomic particles and their quantum dynamics.
- Explain such issues as the limits of nuclear binding, the role of internal quantum numbers and the main processes of decay with emphasis on conservation laws.
- Describe the standard model of particle physics.
- Describe the scientific goals, detection methods, analysis scheme and the challenges in several modern particle detectors.