Nuclear Forces and the deuteron Nucleon-nucleon scattering. Reference frames and transformations. Lorentz transformations and invariance of cross section. Introduction to isospin.Elementary particles and their fundamental interactions. Mediators. Invariance principles and conservation laws. Antiparticles. Insights on: electromagnetic interactions; weak interactions and neutrino physics; strong interactions and the quark model.
K.S. Krane
Introductory Nuclear Physics
WILEY 1988
S.S.M. Wong
Introductory Nuclear Physics
Wiley-VCH 2004B.R. Martin and G. Shaw Particle Physics, IV Ed. Wiley 2017
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired: basic concepts of sub-atomic and sub-nuclear Physics and of the relevant phenomenology.
Competence acquired: understanding of simple physical models for sub-atomic and sub-nuclear Physics and familiarity with the related basic phenomenology.
Skills acquired (at the end of the course): use of basic quantum-mechanical and relativistic-kinematics techniques for the quantitative description of some selected and simple study cases of sub-atomic and sub-nuclear Physics.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Quantum Mechanics, Relativistic Kinematics and of Nuclear and Sub-Nuclear Physics.
Teaching Methods
CFU: 6 48 hours of frontal lessons.
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 140
Type of Assessment
Oral examination to evaluate the real understanding of the topics discussed in the course, with particular attention to the capacity of critical reasoning, to the mastering of studied topics and to the use of an appropriate language.
Course program
Nuclear Forces: a phenomenology of the nucleon-nucleon collisions Introduction to nuclear Isospin. Examples of fusion and fission processes. Nuclear reactions (outline). Simple applications of relativistic kinematics to nuclear reactions. Transformation of the reference frame and cross sections.
Non conservation of parity in the beta decay.Introduction to the Standard Model: the elementary particles (quarks and leptons) and the mediators of their fundamental interactions; fermions and bosons; hadrons; antiparticles. Symmetries (C, P, T) and conservation laws. The CKM matrix. Strange particles and their "oscillations". Neutrinos and their "oscillations". General aspects on the processes of decay and diffusion; mean lifetime and cross section. Phenomenological investigations on: electroweak interaction (EWK) and its W/Z mediators; strong interaction (QCD) and quark model; e-e, e-p and p-p collision processes.