PHYS 765 Advanced Nuclear Physics

Credits: 3

This one-semester course is aimed at bridging the gap between standard textbook material and research literature. Topics in nuclear structure, including microscopic models, shell models, and collective models will be addressed. Similarly, topics of nuclear reactions via strong, weak, and electromagnetic interaction mechanisms, as well as models of excitation, evolution and de-excitation of excited nuclear states will be studied. The nuclear physics and technology introduced in prerequisite courses are applied in nuclear medicine (PET and cancer therapy), industry (material analysis and ion implantation for example), archaeology (radiocarbon dating for example), and astrophysics (nucleosynthesis, stellar evolution for example). Participants will be guided through one or several applications taken from those fields in great detail. This course provides necessary training for those who intend to work in a discipline where nuclear science and technology plays an important role.

Prerequisites: PHYS 761

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