PHYSICS 505.01, Spring 2019

Course TitleINTRO NUCLEAR/PARTICLE PHYSICS  
Class Time/Room TuTh 04:40 PM-05:55 PM LSRC D243
Instructor(s) Oh, Seog
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Course DescriptionIntroductory survey course on nuclear and particle physics. Phenomenology and experimental foundations of nuclear and particle physics; fundamental forces and particles, composites. Interaction of particles with matter and detectors. SU(2), SU(3), models of mesons and baryons. Weak interactions and neutrino physics. Lepton-nucleon scattering, form factors and structure functions. QCD, gluon field and color. W and Z fields, electro-weak unification, the CKM matrix, Nucleon-nucleon interactions, properties of nuclei, single and collective particle models. Electromagnetic and hadronic interactions with nuclei. Nuclear reactions and nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics. Relativistic heavy ion collisions. Instructor: Oh