Faculty of Science

Introdution to Nuclear and Particle Physics
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5889-18-11-31
	Enrollment deadline: 16/11/2018

Place	Niels Bohr Institute
Date and time	19.11.2018, at: 00:00 - 27.01.2019, at: 16:00
Regular seats	60
ECTS credits	7.50

Contact person	Julie Meier E-mail address: juliemh@nbi.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje E-mail address: gardhoje@nbi.ku.dk
Written language	English
Semester/Block	Block 2, 2018
Grading scale	Passed / Not passed

Aim and content The purpose of this course is to give an introduction to the modern description of nature's smallest units, the subatomic systems at the femtoscale: atomic nuclei and elementary particles. The course will cover the theoretical and experimental advances which have lead to the current understanding of physics at the subatomic scale, as well as outline the currently open questions in subatomic physics. More specifically, the course will cover the following topics: •Symmetries and conservations laws in nuclear and particle physics. •Relativistic kinematics and applications in high energy reactions. •The Standard Model theory: fundamental particles (quarks and leptons), and their interactions. •The Higgs and the origin of mass. Neutrino oscillations and masses. •Ultra-relativistic nucleus collisions, quark-gluon plasma in the early universe and in the laboratory. •Nuclear models (liquid drop, shell and collective model). •The nucleon-nucleon interaction. •Models of alpha, beta and gamma decay, fission. •Nuclear astrophysics, primordial and stellar nucleosynthesis. Formel requirements Good level of Classical mechanics, Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics, Special Relativity (corresponding to the mandatory courses of the physics B.Sc.). Learning outcome When the course is finished it is expected that the student is able to: •Use conservations laws in nuclear and particle physics, to determine which nuclear processes and particle processes are allowed and why. •Give an account of nuclear and particle phenomenology in terms of the subatomic particles and interactions and demonstrate understanding of relevant energy scales, and quantum numbers. •Use relativistic kinematics to calculate the outcome of high energy collisions. •Describe atomic nuclei as a quantum mechanical many-body systems bound by an effective strong interaction. Be able to explain nuclear phenomena and excitations in terms of nuclear models. •Describe properties of nuclear reactions and radioactivity in terms of effective models (alpha, beta and gamma decays) and estimate decay rates and characteristics of fusion and fission reactions. •Explain the important properties of elementary particles, and their interactions, in the Standard Model of particle physics. Describe essential experimental results which have lead to the formulation of the Standard Model. •Formulate the basic elements of calculations of cross sections and decay rates in particle physics. •Use the concept of Feynman diagrams to estimate the rate of particle physics processes, for instance in neutrino scattering, and beta decay. Remarks 7,5 ECTS Type of assessment Continuous assessment Oral examination, about 25 minutes The exam consists of two parts: 1) 2 take-home exercises during the course 2) oral exam of about 25 minutes, based on a list of topics communicated to the students several weeks before the exam. No preparation time. The final grade combines the grade from oral exam (75%) and the grade from take-home exercises (25%). Each part of the exam has to be passed separately in order to pass the course. AidAll aids allowed Marking scale7-point grading scale Censorship formNo external censorship More internal examiners Re-exam Same as ordinary exam. Only the part(s) of the exam that were not passed may be re-taken. Oral examination, 25 minutes, no preparation time (75% of the grade). If the continuous part of the evaluation (25% of the grade) was not passed, new homework sets can be submitted no later than two weeks before the oral re-exam.

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