PHY 263 — NUCLEAR PHYSICS
BSc BSc Physics · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Properties of nuclei. Labeling, masses and sizes of nuclei. Nuclear spins and dipole moments. Stability curve. Instability of nuclei. Nature of nuclear force. Liquid drop model. Fermi-gas model . Shell model. Infinite square well. Harmonic oscillator. Spin-orbit potential. Predictions of the shell model. Collective model superdeformed nuclei. Alpha decay, barrier penetration. Beta decay. Gamma decay. Fission. Chain reaction. Nuclear fusion. Radioactive decay. Radioactive equilibrium. Natural radioactivity and radioactive dating. Energy loss. Charged particles. Units of energy loss and range. Straggling, multiple scattering, and statistical processes. Energy loss through bremsstrahlung. Interaction of ionizing radiation (?,?,?, n) with matter. Interaction of hadrons at high energies. Ionization detectors. Ionization counters. Proportional counters. Geiger-M?ller counters. Scintillation detectors. Time of flight. Cherenkov detectors. Semiconductor detectors. Calorimeter. Layered detectors. Electrostatic accelerators:. Cockcroft-Walton machines. Van de Graaff accelerators. Resonance Accelerators i. Cyclotron ii. Linear accelerator Synchronous accelerators. Phase stability. Strong focusing. Colliding beams. Forces Elementary particles i. General ii. Quarks and leptons ii. Quark content of mesons iv. Quark content of baryons Quantum numbers: i. Baryon number ii. Lepton number iii. Strangeness iv. Isospin Gell-Mann - Nishijima relation. Production and decays of resonance. Determining spins. Violation of quantum number:. Weak interactions (a) Hadronic weak-decays (b) Semileptonic processes Electromagnetic processes. Parity: ? - meson, ?. Violation of parity. Time reversal. Charge conjugation. CPT theorem. Neutral Kaons CP eigenstates of neutral Kaons. Strangeness oscillation. regeneration. Violation of CP invariance. Time development and analysis of the system. Semileptonic decays.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 200
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- PHY 254 — CLASSICAL MECHANICS II
- PHY 255 — THERMODYNAMICS
- PHY 256 — E.M. THEORY
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- PHY 261 — PROGRAMMING WITH PASCAL I
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