Nuclear & Particle Physics
- 1 Basic concepts
1.1 History
1.1.1 The origins of nuclear physics
1.1.2 The emergence of particle physics: hadrons and quarks
1.1.3 The standard model of particle physics
1.2 Relativity and antiparticles
1.3 Space-time symmetries and conservation laws
1.3.1 Parity
- 2 Nuclear phenomenology
2.1 Mass spectroscopy
2.1.1 Deflection spectrometers
2.1.2 Kinematic analysis
2.1.3 Penning trap measurements
2.2 Nuclear shapes and sizes
2.2.1 Charge distribution
2.2.2 Matter distribution
- 3 Particle phenomenology
3.1 Leptons
3.1.1 Lepton multiplets and lepton numbers
3.1.2 Universal lepton interactions; the number of neutrinos
3.1.3 Neutrinos
3.1.4 Neutrino mixing and oscillations
3.1.5 Oscillation experiments
3.1.6 Neutrino masses and mixing angles
3.1.7 Lepton numbers revisited
3.2 Quarks
3.2.1 Evidence for quarks
3.2.2 Quark generations and quark numbers
3.3 Hadrons
3.3.1 Flavour independence and charge multiplets
3.3.2 The simple quark model
- 4 Experimental methods
4.1 Overview
4.2 Accelerators and beams
4.2.1 DC accelerators
4.2.2 AC accelerators
4.2.3 Neutral and unstable particle beams
4.3 Particle interactions with matter
4.3.1 Short-range interactions with nuclei
4.3.2 Ionisation energy losses
4.3.3 Radiation energy losses
4.3.4 Interactions of photons in matter
4.3.5 Ranges and interaction lengths
4.4 Particle detectors
4.4.1 Gaseous ionisation detectors
4.4.2 Scintillation counters
- 5 Quark dynamics: the strong interaction
5.1 Colour
5.2 Quantum chromodynamics (QCD)
5.2.1 The strong coupling constant
5.2.2 Screening, antiscreening and asymptotic freedom
5.3 New forms of matter
5.3.1 Exotic hadrons
5.3.2 The quark-gluon plasma
5.4 Jets and gluons
5.4.1 Colour counting
5.5 Deep inelastic scattering and nucleon structure
5.5.1 Scaling
5.5.2 The quark-parton model
5.5.3 Scaling violations and parton distributions
5.5.4 Inelastic neutrino scattering
- 6 Weak interactions and electroweak unification
6.1 Charged and neutral currents
6.2 Charged current reactions
6.2.1 W -lepton interactions
6.2.2 Lepton-quark symmetry and mixing
6.2.3 W-boson decays
6.2.4 Charged current selection rules
6.3 The third generation
6.3.1 More quark mixing
6.3.2 Properties of the top quark
6.4 Neutral currents and the unified theory
6.4.1 Electroweak unification
6.4.2 The Z 0 vertices and electroweak reactions
6.5 Gauge invariance
- Applications of Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Fusion - Nuclear Fission - Radiation Effects - Medical Imaging
- 8 Models and theories of nuclear physics
8.1 The nucleon-nucleon potential
8.2 Fermi gas model
8.3 Shell model
8.3.1 Shell structure of atoms
8.3.2 Nuclear shell structure and magic numbers
8.3.3 Spins, parities, and magnetic dipole moments
8.3.4 Excited states
8.4 Nonspherical nuclei
8.4.1 Electric quadrupole moments
8.4.2 Collective model
8.5 Summary of nuclear structure models
8.6 ? decay
8.7 ? decay
8.7.1 V - A theory
8.7.2 Electron & positron momentum distribut