PHY 981 Nuclear Structure: Introduction

 

 

 

Overview of first two weeks

  • First two weeks:
    • Presentation of topics to be covered and introduction to nuclear structure physics
    • Discussion of quantities like binding energies, masses, radii, separation energies, see chapters 1-4 of Alex Brown's (AB) 2011 lectures
    • Single-particle degrees of freedom, discussion of data
    • Hamiltonians and single-particle fields, see Suhonen (JS) chapter 3 and AB chapters 9 and 10.