NUCLEAR PHYSICS 5A1410 [4pfor F4]
The course is also given as an introductory graduate course [5A5420, 4 credits]
Lecturer and course
coordinator:
Bo Cederwall
Department of Physics,
Royal Institute of Technology
Roslagstullsbacken 21,
S-106 91 Stockholm , Sweden
(Centre for Physics, Astronomy and Biotechnology)
The course will
cover selected topics in basic and applied nuclear physics, such as:
· Basic nuclear properties
· The strong interaction - alpha-decay
· The weak interaction - beta-decay
· The electromagnetic interaction - gamma-decay
· Nuclear reactions. Basic scattering theory
· The quark model (in brief)
· The deuteron, effective nucleon-nucleon
interaction
· The nuclear shell model and liquid drop model
· Deformed nuclei and collective motion -
rotations - vibrations
· Nuclear astrophysics - Big Bang nucleosynthesis and star evolution
· Detectors for ionizing radiation
· Accelerators
· Fission and fusion - nuclear energy
production
· Applications of nuclear physics in industry
and medicine
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EXPERIMENT |
THEORY |
APPLICATIONS |
The course starts Friday September 9, 2005 at 13:15 in
room FB51
NB! Course
schedule is
changed
Lectures
start a quarter after the hour. (NB!)
Lectures
and laboratory exercises will take place at AlbaNova, Roslagstullsbacken
21.
The
lab work will be scheduled on an individual (group) basis in order to, if
possible, avoid collisions with other courses.
Do not enter the lab area without having carefully studied the radiation safety
information provided below!
Try to
form groups of 3 students and contact the laboratory assistants (see below)
with the times when you would like to have each laboration.
A list of possible lab times will be circulated in connection with the
lectures. One of the laborations (lab # 5) is a
computer lab in which the data from the gamma-gamma coincidence measurement
(lab # 4) is analyzed.
Preliminary
lecture itinerary
Laboratory exercises
· Radiation protection information
(To be studied
carefully before the first laboration!)
· Alpha decay and spontaneous fission.
· Principles
of radiation detectors. Internal conversion.
· Mössbauer effect. Measuring the natural linewidth
of an excited nuclear state.
· Gamma-gamma coincidence measurement.
· Construction of a nuclear level scheme based
on the laboration Gamma-gamma coincidence
measurement.
COURSE
LITERATURE: K.S. Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics and lecture notes
EXAMINATION will be in the form of home
exercises and written reports from the laboratory work.
HOME
EXERCISES (Not yet finalized)
For some exercises you will find use for the Table of nuclear properties, Krane Appendix C. A more complete and up-to-date list of
nuclear properties can be found e.g. at
Brookhaven National Lab
· Home
assignments in html format (MS IE compatible)
· Home
assignment 1. (postscript file)
· Home
assignment 2. (postscript file)
· Home
assignment 3. (postscript file)
· Home
assignment 4. (postscript file)
· Home
assignment 5. (postscript file)
· Home
assignment 6. (postscript file)
· Home
assignment 7. (postscript file)
· Home
assignment 8. (postscript file)
· Home
assignment 9. (postscript file)
· Home
assignment 10. (postscript file)
· Home
assignment 11. (postscript file)
· Home
assignment 12. (postscript file)
Don't hesitate to ask
if something is not clear!
A few examples of
interesting "popular" links:
ABC of nuclear physics
Glossary
Nuclear Science Wall
chart
Nuclear Physics at the femto-scale
(booklet on NP research in popular form)
Links to nuclear
physics labs and resources:
Nuclear Physics Labs
RHIC, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Lund Nuclear Data WWW
Service
Table of Isotopes WWW service
American Physical Society, Division of
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NUPECC)
European Infrastructure Network: Frontiers in Nuclear Physics
Illustration of a calculation of
q. m. barrier penetration using the WKB approximation
Nuclear Physics News Items, compiled by the
nuclear physics group, University of Liverpool
Nuclear Astrophysics:
Nuclear Astrophysics Data - LBNL
Nuclear Astrophysics - LANL
Radiation protection:
SSI
Nuclear medicine:
Society for nuclear medicine
(USA)
Boron neutron capture therapy for cancer treatment
Let's Play PET!
DIPLOMA WORK IN
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
CONTACTS:
Course coordinator and lecturer:
Bo Cederwall
(phone 08-55378203)
Course assistants:
Karin Andgren (55378199)
Baharak Hadinia (55378199)
Last updated 1 September 2004 / BC