Nuclear and Particle Physics 1.

Course description:
Electromagnetic shifts of the nucleus. Nuclear reactions: cross-sections, conservation laws. The intermediate nucleus model, Breit-Wigner formula, statistic model. Direct reactions, optical model. Heavy ion reactions, fission, slowing and diffusion of neutrons, chain reaction, fission reactors. Thermonuclear reactions, fusion devices. Basic characteristics of the nucleus: size, charge, mass, binding energy, electromagnetic multipole momentum, parity, isospin. Excited states of the nucleus, one particle and collective excitements. Giant multipole resonances. Nuclear structure models (liquid drop model, shell model, Fermi gas model, collective model). Nuclear forces: phenomenological approach, deuteron, results of low and high energy scattering experiments, the role of the mesons. The structure of the nucleons, the quark model.

Recommended Texts:

• Muhin K. N.: Kísérleti magfizika, Tankönyvkiadó, Bp. 1985
• Csikainé Buczkó M.: Radioaktivitás és atommagfizika, Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, Bp. 1993
• Perkins, D H: Introduction to High Energy Physics, Addison-Wesley, Reading 1987.