Nuclear Physics

(NJSF064)

Information and study materials

 

Winter term 2024/25

Lectures take place on Wednesdays from 10:40  in lecture room A920 and tutorials take place on Tuesdays from 10:40 in lecture room A945. 

Contact information

Lecture notes

 

·         Introduction, masses, binding energies (pdf)

notes: masses and Bethe-Weiszäcker formula

 

·         Nuclear spectra, densities, electromagnetic moments (pdf)

notes: elastic scattering  

            electric and magnetic moments

            isospin

 

·         Deuteron, nucleon-nucleon scattering (pdf)

notes: simple model of deuteron

            tensor interaction

            partial wave analysis

            low-energy scattering

            n-H2 scattering at low energy

 

·         Nucleon-nucleon potentials (pdf) 

notes: Argonne potentials

 

·         Independent particle model (pdf)

notes: shell-model

            modified HO and Nilsson model  

    

·         Nuclear shell model: configuration mixing (pdf)

notes:  two-particle spectra

                 elmg. transitions

         

·         Collective  vibrations (pdf)

notes:  Bohr deformation parameters

  surface vibrations of spherical nuclei

 

·         Collective rotations, rotation-vibrational model (pdf)

notes:  rigid rotor model

             rotational spectra of odd- nuclei

             rotation-vibration model

 

·          Alpha clustering and alpha decay (pdf)

notes:  Gamow model of alpha decay

 

·          Beta decay (pdf)

notes:  basic description of beta decay

 

·         Reactions (pdf)

notes:  description of inelastic processes

             simple kinematics

  

Homework