Overview of Lectures I

1
Overview of Lectures (I)

• Introduction
• Fri. Week 1, Lindemann (L)
• Why do we study Nuclear Physics
• What will this course cover
• Shape and density of the nuclei
• 2. The Semi Empirical Mass Formula (SEMF)
• Thu. Week 2, Martin Wood (MW)
• The liquid drop model
• The Fermi Gas Model
• Experimental verification
• 3./4./5. Using the SEMF and transition to Shell
  Model
• Fri. (L) Week 2 Thu. (MW), Fri (L) Week 3
• The valley of nuclear stability
• Nuclear decays (a, b, fission, others)
• Natural radioactivity
• The end of SEMF Evidence of magic numbers
• The Shell Model

Note lectures in the Martin Wood starting 1205
lectures in the Lindemann starting
1405 (wks 1-4), 1205 weeks 6-8
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Overview of Lectures (II)

• 6./7. Crossections
• Thu. (MW), Frid (L) Week 4,
• Experiments, natural units, conventions and
  definitions
• Fermis Golden Rule
• Rutherford Scattering
• Breit-Wigner resonances and partial decay widths
• Note No nuclear physics lectures in week 5 !
• 8./9. Theory of Decays
• Thu. Fri. Week 6, (MW)
• Tunnelling model of a-decay
• Selection rules and decay rates in g-decay
• Fermi theory of b-decay

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Overview of Lectures (III)

• 10./11. Particle Interactions with Matter
• Thu. Fri. Week 7, (MW)
• dE/dx by ionisation and the Bethe-Bloch formula
  (9)
• Photoeffect, Compton Scattering, Bremsstrahlung,
  Pair Production
• Cherenkov radiation
• 12./13. Applications of Nuclear Physics
• Thy. Fri. Week 8, (MW)
• Particle Detectors
• Fission Reactors
• Bombs
• Fusion reactors
• Radioactive dating (notes only)