INGLESE

English

1) Nuclear structure
2) Nuclear reactions at low and intermediate energy
3) The quark model
4) QCD jets and gluons
5) Weak interaction: quarks and leptons
6) Discrete symmetries
7) Selected experimental methods

- Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell- Author: C. Bertulani
- Particle Physics - Authors: B.R. Martin and G. Shaw
- The Nuclear Shell Model – Author: K.L.G. Heyde

The course is aimed at presenting a phenomenological overview of nuclear and subnuclear physics. Students will be in the position of understanding the basic phenomena in those field developing the ability of solving relatively straightforward problems.
The course serves as a basis for an advanced study in the field of nuclear and subnuclear physics.

Introductory nuclear and subnuclear physics

The course is structured in 64 hours of frontal lectures (32 hour for nuclear physics, 32 for particle physics)
4 hours of assisted study.
Attendance is not compulsory but strongly recommended.

The examination is oral interview based on the discussion of the arguments illustrated during the course with a typical duration of 45 minutes.

1) Recalls of basic concepts in nuclear physics: cross section, differential cross section, partial wave expansion, interaction of radiation with matter (1 CFU)
2) Nuclear structure: The nuclear shell model. Harmonic oscillator. Configuration mixing. Shell-model effective Hamiltonians: schematic, empirical, microscopic interactions. (1CFU)
3) Nuclear reactions: Compound nucleus, optical model, direct reactions, photonuclear reactions, giant resonances, Coulomb excitation, fission (2CFU)
4) Basic concepts in Particle physics: Feynman diagrams and particle exchange. The Yukawa potential. Leptons and weak interactions. Neutrino masses and neutrino mixing. Quarks and hadrons, space-time symmetries (2 CFU)
5) The quark model: isospin symmetry, light hadrons, Colour charges and confinement, charmonium, quark antiquark potential, the strong coupling constant, screening, antiscreening and asymptotic freedom (1 CFU)
6) Weak interactions: quarks and leptons: charged current reactions, lepton-quark symmetry and mixing, W boson decay. P violation, C violation, CP violation. (1 CFU)