Department of Physics

10ΕΚ413  Nuclear Physics     

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS221

Course Content

• Hadronic structure. Experimental evidence for the existence of quarks. The Standard Model and properties of hadrons. Symmetries and classification of hadrons. Nucleon properties. Models of the nucleon structure. Quantum chromodynamics and nucleon structure.
• The nuclear interaction. Nucleon-nucleon scattering. Phenomenological potentials and meson exchange theories. Nuclear potentials inspired from quantum chromodynamics and its effective theories.
• Microscopic description of nucleonic systems. The deuterium. Light nuclei and nuclear matter. The nuclear mean field. Correlation theories. Shell theory and effective potentials. Pairing and polarization of the nucleus. Description of nuclei by the Hartree-Fock theory. Collective phenomena. TDA-RPA theories. Relativistic mean field model. Mesons and quarks in nuclei.
• Equation of state and properties of nuclear matter. Phases of the strongly interacting matter.
• Elements of nuclear astrophysics (neutron stars, etc.)
• Basic experimental techniques in nuclear physics.