NUCLEAR PHYSICS 5A1410

CONTENTS of the course at Department of Nuclear Physics, KTH

Spring semester 1997 (24h lectures)

Lecturer: Ramon Wyss

The course starts on wednesday 15nd January, 10:15 am, in F24

There exist two grand designs in nature at zero temperature - the solid and the liquid. Most systems belong to the former. Although the atomic nucleus is kept together via strong forces, we can assume that it forms a liquid. The potential energy is not strong enough to overcome the zero point motion of the nucleons....

The course in Nuclear Physics will give the student a first introduction to basic pehonmena in Nuclear Physics and important applications of Nuclear Physics in technology. The course will selected items such as:

the deuteron - the nuclear shell model - the liquid drop model - basic scattering theory - nucleon-nucleon interaction -

the strong force - alpha-decay

the weak force - beta -decay

the electromagnetic force - gamma-decay

deformed nuclei and collective motion - rotations - vibrations

fission and fusion - future sustainable nuclear energy production

accelerators

Literature:

K.Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics

Lectures:

1. Introduction and repition
2. The Deuteron
3. The Fermi Gas model - the Fermi liquid
4. The nucleon-nucleon interaction, the nuclear potential
5. The nuclear shell-model
6. Collective motion
7. Alpha decay and barriar penetration, WKB-method
8. The Fermi theory of beta-decay, the neutrino, helicity
9. Gamma-decay - electromagnetic interaction
10. Fission - fusion - sustainable nergy sources
11. Neutron Physics and applied nuclear physics

Schedule:

week 3 lectures: wednesday 10 - 12 F24,

week 5-9 lectures: wednesday 10 - 12 E53,

week 3-8 lectures: thursday 10 - 12 F32,

Five Laboratory exercises

responsible: Joakim Cederkäll, tel: 16 11 02

1. Principles of radiation detection
2. internal conversion
3. the Moessbauer effect
4. gamma-gamma coincidences
5. Nuclear Reaction at the MSL-van de Graaf acelerator
   
   

laboratories start: week 7

sign up! SCHEDULE at Physics I, Lindstedtsv. 24, 1th floor

The examination will be based on the lectures and laboratory exercises
book: K.S. Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics

Examination:

Examination will be in approved home exercises and written reports from laboratory lessons

Home exercises will be put onto this homepage!!

Telephones:

The lecturer (Ramon Wyss) can be reached on telephone 790 8452, 161107 or by e-mail wyss@atom.kth.se

The course assistant (Joakim Cederkäll) has telephone 161102 and e-mail cederkall@msi.se.

HEMTAL

1:

1) Beraekna N- och Z-linjen foer prompt proton- och neutron emission vid A=100,200 utifraan den semi-empiriska massformeln.

2) Foer vilka masstal kan atomkaernor fissionera utifraan den semi-empiriska massformeln?

3) Hur stor aer Coulombenergin foer tvaa protoner med samma medelradie som deutronen?

4) Loes uppgift 4.3 och 4.7 i Krane, sid 113,114

2: