PH5011: Nuclear and Particle Physics

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Course Information

L-T-P-C3-0-0-3
Prerequisites PH5003, PH5007

Syllabus

Module 1: Nuclear Physics: Structure and Properties

Lecture hours: 4 · Tutorial hours: 0 · Lab hours: 0

Nuclear radii and charge distributions, Nuclear binding energy, Electric and magnetic moments .

Module 2: Nuclear Models

Lecture hours: 8 · Tutorial hours: 0 · Lab hours: 0

Liquid drop model: semi-empirical mass formula, Fermi gas model of nucleus, Nuclear shell model .

Module 3: Nuclear Force and Nuclear Reactions

Lecture hours: 8 · Tutorial hours: 0 · Lab hours: 0

Nuclear force and the two nucleon problem, Alpha decay, beta decay, electromagnetic transitions in nuclei, Rutherford scattering, nuclear reactions, conservation laws, Fission and fusion .

Module 4: Particle Physics

Lecture hours: 10 · Tutorial hours: 0 · Lab hours: 0

Fundamental forces in nature, Classification of particles: bosons and fermions; hadrons and leptons, Identical particles and permutation symmetry, Particle phenomenology: quark content of hadrons; isospin, flavor, and color symmetry, Particle quantum numbers, Gell-Mann-Nishijima formula, Phenomenology of weak interactions; V-A theory, Introduction to the standard model, Particle accelerators and detectors .

Module 5: Elements of Special Relativity

Lecture hours: 4 · Tutorial hours: 0 · Lab hours: 0

Four-vectors and four-momentum, conservation of four-momentum, Kinematics of scattering: relativistic kinematics of decay and interaction processes illustrated with physical examples .

Module 6: Feynman Rules

Lecture hours: 8 · Tutorial hours: 0 · Lab hours: 0

Fermi's golden rule for decays and scattering, Introduction to Feynman rules, Recall solutions to the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, Decay rates and scattering cross-section at tree-level, with examples from quantum electrodynamics .

Study Materials

Textbooks

  1. Introduction to Elementary Particles, David Griffiths, Wiley, ISBN: 978-3-527-40601-2
  2. Nuclear and Particle Physics: An Introduction, B. R. Martin, Wiley, ISBN: 9788126565078

References

  1. Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Ashok Das, Thomas Ferbel, World Scientific, ISBN: 978-9812387448
  2. Quarks & Leptons: An Introductory Course In Modern Particle Physics, Francis Halzen and Alan D. Martin, Wiley India, ISBN: 978-8126516568