Department of Physics

10ΥΕΚΑ04 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics

Course Webpage:   https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS122

Course Content

• Object of the course and introductory concepts. Characteristic scales and units. The Standard Model: Quarks & leptons. Basic conservation principles. Relativistic kinematics.
• The field concept. Interactions via boson exchange. Yukawa theory. Feynman diagrams. Virtual particles. Antiparticles. ΕΜ and weak interactions and their unification.
• Chromodynamics. Strong interactions. Symmetries: Parity, charge conjugation, time reversal. Static quark model. Hadron classification.
• Nuclide chart και properties of nuclei. Valley of β-stability. Semi-empirical formula. Mirror nuclei.
• Charge distribution. Scattering of electrons from nuclei. Radioactivity, α-decay. Tunneling effect.
• Nuclear potentials. Deuterium. Mean field. Independent particle model. L-S coupling. Shell structure.
• Laboratory experiments: Geiger-Müller detectors, detection and absorption of β radiation, detection and absorption of γ radiation. Scintillator detectors, interaction of γ radiation with matter, dosimetry.