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Introduction to Modern Nuclear Physics

Qun Wang | March 9, 2018

1.1 Why nuclear physics
1.2 From cgs-Gaussian to natural unit system
1.3 Conventions

2.1 Discover atomic nucleus
2.2 The size and density distribution of nucleus
2.3 Spin and magnetic moment
2.4 Parity
2.5 Electric multipole moment
2.6 The mass formula and binding energy

3 Radioactivity and nuclear decay

3.1 General property of radioactivity
3.2 Radioactive dating
3.3 alpha decay: strong interaction at work
3.4 beta decay: weak interaction at work
3.4.1 Fermi theory of beta decay
3.4.2 Parity violation in beta decay
3.5 gamma decay: electromagnetic interaction at work
3.5.1 Classical electrodynamics for radiation field
3.5.2 Quantization of radiation field
3.5.3 Interaction of radiation with matter
3.5.4 Multipole expansion
3.6 Mössbauer effect

4 Nuclear models

4.1 The shell model
4.1.1 Phenomena related to shell structure
4.1.2 Main points of the shell model
4.2 Collective models
4.3 Hatree-Fock self-consistent method

5 Nuclear reaction

5.1 Conservation laws and kinematics
5.2 Partial wave analysis and optical potential
5.3 Resonance and compound nuclear reaction
5.4 Direct reaction
5.5 Nuclear fission
5.5.1 Spontaneous fission
5.5.2 Induced fission
5.5.3 Self-sustaining nuclear fissions and fission reactor
5.5.4 Time constant of a fission reactor
5.6 Accelerator-Driven System
5.6.1 Spallation neutron source
5.6.2 Thorium as fission fuel
5.6.3 Nuclear waste incinerator
5.7 Nuclear fusion

6 Nuclear force and nucleon-nucleon interaction

6.1 Properties of nucleons
6.2 General properties of nuclear force
6.3 Deuteron nucleus
6.3.1 S-state
6.3.2 S and D states
6.4 Low energy nucleon-nucleon scatterings
6.5 Nucleon-Nucleon scatterings in moderate energy
6.6 Meson exchange model for NN potentials
6.6.1 One pion exchange potential (OPEP)
6.6.2 One boson exchange potential

7 The structure of hadrons

7.1 Symmetries and Groups
7.1.1 The group SU(2)
7.1.2 SU(2) isospin, fundamental representation
7.1.3 Conjugate representation of SU(2)
7.1.4 SU(3) symmetry
7.1.5 Tensor representation of SU(3)
7.1.6 Reduction of direct product of irreducible representations in SU(3)
7.1.7 Quarks as building blocks for hadrons
7.1.8 Mesons as quark-anti-quark states
7.1.9 Baryons as three-quark states
7.1.10 Gell-Mann-Okubo relations
7.2 Quarks and gluons
7.2.1 Color degrees of freedom
7.2.2 Gluons as color carriers
7.2.3 Asymptotic Freedom
7.2.4 Phenomenological illustration of the confinement