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Advanced Nuclear Physics

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PHYS 609 Advanced Nuclear Physics 3 credits. Nucleon-nucleon interaction, bulk nuclear structure, microscopic models of nuclear structure, collective models of nuclear structure, nuclear decays and reactions, electromagnetic interactions, weak interactions, strong interactions, nucleon structure, nuclear applications, current topics in nuclear physics. PREREQ: PHYS 624 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PHYS 624-625 Quantum Mechanics 3 credits. Schrodinger wave equation, stationary state solution; operators and matrices; perturbation theory, non-degenerate and degenerate cases; WKB approximation, non-harmonic oscillator, etc.; collision problems. Born approximation, method of partial waves. PHYS 624 is a PREREQ for 625. PREREQ: PHYS g561-g562, PHYS 621 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

NucPhys_I_Syllabus

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Introduction

Nomenclature

Variable	Definition
Z	Atomic Number
A	Atomic Mass
L	Angular Momentum
L	Angular Momentum
L	Angular Momentum
Nuclide	A specific nuclear species
Isotope	Nuclides with same Z but different N
Isotones	Nuclides with same N but different Z
Isobars	Nuclides with same A
Nuclide	A specific nuclear species
Nucelons	Either a neutron or a proton
J	Nuclear Angular Momentum

Notation

[math]{A \atop Z} X_N[/math] = An atom identified by the Chemical symbol [math]X[/math] with [math]Z[/math] protons and [math]N[/math] neutrons.

Notice that [math]Z[/math] and [math]N[/math] are redundant since [math]Z[/math] can be identified by the chemical symbol [math]X[/math] and [math] N[/math] can be determined from both [math]A[/math] and the chemical symbol [math]X[/math].

example

[math]{208 \atop\; }Pb ={208 \atop 82 }Pb_{126}[/math]