Nucleons and their structure,
hadrons and isospin,
two-nucleon systems;
NN interaction: phenomenological this dot that vs. chiral EFT;
the pion as a Goldstone boson of chiral symmetry breaking, and how
that changes its mass
;
bulk properties of nuclei,
nuclear excitations and radioactivity,
nuclear models;
simple nuclear structure from space+spin+isospin+permutation antisymmetry;
strong and electromagnetic decay,
scattering theory and nuclear reactions,
nuclear astrophysics;
symmetries and weak interactions, Goldberger-Treiman
relation as a demo of approximate chiral symmetry
PHYS 500 QM I or equivalent
Samuel S.M. Wong, Introductory Nuclear Physics, 2nd ed. Wiley (.pdf available at publisher with UBC library privileges)
(supplement for NN interactions and many-body theory) A. Obertelli and H. Sagawa, Modern Nuclear Physics..., 2021, Springer (ditto)
Wed Fri 9:30-11:00
1st lecture Jan 8, 2025. Material (including notes for half the lectures) on Canvas. Email instructors for access.
Dirac traces beta decay notes 2005
HW2 nucleon, Delta0 magnetic moment, SSB
HW4 Isospin examplesHW7 s.p. picture, Nilsson, mean field, permutation structure