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PHYS 40622: Nuclear Forces and Reactions

Credit rating: 10 Dr A G Smith & Prof M Birse Physics option unit PHYS40622

Nuclear Forces and Reactions Prerequisites: PHYS40322 Classes: 24 lectures in S8 Assessment: 1 hour 30 minutes examination in May/June Webpage: nucpc100.ph.man.ac.uk/reactions nucpc100.ph.man.ac.uk/reactions Recommended texts:

• C. A. Bertulani, Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell (Princeton)
• S. S. M. Wong, Introductory Nuclear Physics (Wiley)
• K. S. Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics (Wiley)

Syllabus:

• 1. Nuclear forces (8 lectures)

Symmetries in nuclear physics From quarks to pions and nucleons The deuteron Scattering in quantum mechanical systems Partial waves Effective-range expansion Pion-exchange force Phases of nuclear matter

• 2. Nuclear reactions (8 lectures)

Reaction cross sections Resonances Optical potential Compound nucleus Direct reactions Nuclear fission

• 3. Nuclear astrophysics (6 lectures)

The Big Bang H and He burning in stars Formation of heavier elements Supernovae and neutron stars

• Fig. 1.1

Solvay Conference 1937

Fig 1.2