Nuclear Physics 621
Fall 2006

Witek Nazarewicz and guest stars

Place: Ayres Hall 226-G, Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 8:55-10:10 AM
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REFERENCES
Recommended textbook:
"Introductory Nuclear Physics", Samuel S. M. Wong (Wiley-Interscience, 1998/99) Library Catalog QC776.W66, ISBN: 0471239739
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LECTURE NOTES
Aug. 23: Roadmap of nuclear science Aug. 28: Nuclear science: challenges (1) Aug. 30: Nuclear science: challenges (2)
Sep. 6: Symmetries of the nuclear Hamiltonian (1) Sep. 11: Symmetries of the nuclear Hamiltonian (2) Sep. 13: ABC of Quantum Chromodynamics
Sep. 18: Structure of hadrons (1) (Barnes) Sep. 20: Structure of hadrons (2) (Barnes) Sep. 25: Global properties of nuclei (Papenbrock)
Sep. 27: Alpha Decay Oct. 2: Fission Oct. 4: Electromagnetic decay
Oct. 9: Beta decay (1) Oct. 11: Beta decay (2); Neutrino Oct. 16: Releativistic heavy Ion physics (1) (Sorensen)
Oct. 18: Releativistic heavy Ion physics (2) (Sorensen) Oct. 23: Nuclear Forces Oct. 25: Deuteron; Few body systems
Oct. 30: Effective interactions. Shell Model (1) Nov. 1: Shell Model (2) Nov. 6: Hartree Fock (I)
Nov. 8: Hartree Fock (II). Pairing (I) Nov. 13: Pairing (II) Nov. 15: BCS (I)
Nov. 20: BCS (II), Density Functional Theory (Papenbrock) Nov. 22: Collective excitations Nov. 27: Symmetry tests in nuclei (Greene)
Nov. 29: Nuclear Astrophysics (1) (Cardall) Dec. 4: Nuclear Astrophysics (2) (Cardall) Dec. 13: Final Exam
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