Course teached as: B015858 - INTRODUZIONE ALLA FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Nuclear Forces. The deuteron. Nucleon- nucleon scattering. Reference frames and tranformations. Lorentz transformations and invariance of cross section. Introduction to isospin.
Static properties of nuclei. Nuclear binding energy. The Nuclear Liquid Drop Model. Fusion and Fission as possible sources of energy. Energetics and kinematics of nuclear reactions.
The Fermi Gas Model. Radioactive decay.
Lab activity connected to Sub atomic Physics.
H.Frauedelder and E.M,Henley
Subatomic Physics
PRENTICE-HALL
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired: basic concepts of Sub-atomic Physics and of the relevant phenomenology
Competence acquired: understanding of simple physical models for Subatomic Physics and familiarity with basic phenomenology
Skills acquired (at the end of the course): use of
of basic quantum-mechanical techniques for the quantitative description of some selected and simple study cases of Sub-atomic Physics
Prerequisites
Courses required: Mathematical Analysis II, Analytical mechanics, Physics II
Courses recommended: all the preceding courses
in the didactic organization
Teaching Methods
CFU: 6
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 120
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 52
Further information
Office hours: normally Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m., to be confirmed by e-mail exchange. Other hours possible, by appointment.
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Type of Assessment
Oral exam, including a numeric exercise and description of lab activity
Course program
Nuclear Forces: an introduction, starting from the known properties of the bound state of the deuteron, the phenomenology of the nucleon-nucleon collisions and the static properties of the nuclei. Introduction to Isospin. The Fermi gas Model for the nucleus (a useful example of a system of fermions and a “rough” interpretation framework of the nucleus).
The binding energy of the nucleus. Systematics of the binding energies. The nuclear Liquid Drop Model. Fusion and fission as possible energy sources. Examples of fusion and fission processes. Nuclear reactions (outline). Simple applications of relativistic kinematics to nuclear reactions. Compton scattering. Transformation of the reference frame and cross sections.
Law of radioactive decay and examples.