PHYS 40622: Nuclear Forces and Reactions

Credit rating: 10 Dr A G Smith & Prof M BirsePhysics option unit PHYS40622

Nuclear Forces and Reactions Prerequisites: PHYS40322Classes: 24 lectures in S8 Assessment: 1 hour 30 minutes examination in May/June

Webpage: nucpc100.ph.man.ac.uk/reactions nucpc100.ph.man.ac.uk/reactions

Recommended texts: C. A. Bertulani, Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell (Princeton) S. S. M. Wong, Introductory Nuclear Physics (Wiley) K. S. Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics (Wiley)

Syllabus:

1. Nuclear forces (8 lectures)Symmetries in nuclear physics

From quarks to pions and nucleons The deuteron

Scattering in quantum mechanical systems Partial waves

Effective-range expansion Pion-exchange force

Phases of nuclear matter 2. Nuclear reactions (8 lectures)

Reaction cross sections Resonances

Optical potential Compound nucleus

Direct reactions Nuclear fission

3. Nuclear astrophysics (6 lectures)The Big Bang

H and He burning in stars Formation of heavier elements Supernovae and neutron stars

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Solvay  Conference 1937

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