PHYS 42084

>< Type/ Status : Compulsory
>< Title : Nuclear Physics and Fundamental Particles
>< Pre-requisites : All PHYS Core Course units
>< Objectives :
By the end of course, students will gain conceptual understanding on fundamentals of Nuclear Physics and Fundamental Particles together with problem solving ability in relevant sections.
>< Course Content :

Passage of Particle Radiation through Matter; Interaction Probability, Energy Loss, Bathe-Bloch Formula, Bremsstrahlung Radiation. Photon Interactions in Matter; Photoelectric Absorption, Compton Scattering, Pair Production. Particle Detection; Scintillation Detectors, Gaseous Detectors, Detector Efficiency and Resolution, Electromagnetic Shower. Nuclear Properties; Charge and Matter Distribution, Skin Thickness, Electron Elastic Scattering, Nuclear Binding Energy, Semi-empirical Mass Formula, Angular Momentum and Parity, Nuclear Spin, Isospin. Mirror Nuclei; Muonic Atom, Isobaric Analogue States, Pauli Principle. Nuclear Electromagnetic Moments; Deformed Nuclei. Nuclear Force; Deuteron, Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction. Nuclear Models; Liquid Drop Model, Shell Model, Harmonic Oscillator Potential, Woods-Saxon Form, Nuclear Excited States. Nuclear Reactions; Cross Sections, Scattering Experiments, Nuclear Pion Production. Nuclear Decay. Nuclear Electromagnetic Multipole Transitions. Basic Building Blocks of the Universe. Fundamental Forces; Exchange Bosons. Classification of Particles; Quarks and Leptons. Antiparticle Concept. Conservation Laws of Nature. Decay Reactions, Production of Mesons and Hadrons. The Standard Model, Symmetry Groups, Particle Excited States, Collision Reactions.

>< Methodology : A combination of lectures, seminars, and tutorial discussions.
>< Scheme of Evaluation : End of course unit written examination.
>< Recommended Reading :
1. Krane, K. S. (1988). Introductory Nuclear Physics, John Wiley & Sons..
2. Frauenfelder, H., Henley, E. M. (1974) Subatomic Physics, Prentice Hall.
3. Burcham, W. E. (1973) An introduction to Nuclear Physics, Longman.
4. Halzen, F. and Martin, A. D. (1984). Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics, John Wiley & Sons.
5. Perkins, D. H. Introduction to High Energy Physics.
6. Muirhead, H. (1965). The Physics of Elementary Particles, Pergamon Press.
7. Tassie, L. J. (1973). The Physics of Elementary Particles, Longman.

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