Nuclear Physics
Dozent: Yvonne Leifels, Ingo Deppner
Link zum LSF
11 Teilnehmer/innen
The research goals of contemporary nuclear physics will be introduced and discussed with special emphasis on the research topics addressed at the accelerator facility for anti-proton and ion research FAIR, which is presently being built in Darmstadt.
General information
The research goals of contemporary nuclear physics are introduced and discussed with a special emphasis on the research topics addressed at the new accelerator facility FAIR, which is currently being built in Darmstadt.
Course requirements:
- 50 % of excercise sheets
- 30 % of final exam
Literature:
- V.E. Fortov, Extreme States of Matter, Springer Series of Materials Science, Volume 216 (2016)
- J.L. Basdevant, J. Rich, M. Spiro, Fundamentals in Nuclear Physics, Springer (2004)
- E.M. Henley, A. Garcia, Subatomic Physics, 3rd edition, World Scintific Publishing (2007)
- K.S. Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics, Wiley (1988)
- C.A. Bertulani, Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell, In a Nutshell (2007)
- L.P. Cernai, Introduction to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (2008)
- CBM Physics Book
Suggested readings:
- "Determination of the Equation of State of Dense Matter" by P. Danielewicz, R. Lacey and W.G. Lynch (originally in Science)
- The "Guide to microscopic modes for intermediate energy heavy ion collisions" by G.F. Bertsch, S. Das Gupta
- "A short course on Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions" by A.K. Chaudhuri
Useful links:
Contents:
- Introduction / FAIR project
- Ground state properties of hadrons and nuclei
- Nucear excitations
- Nuclear reactions (phenomenlogy and theory)
- QCD phase diagram
Plan of lecture:
Date | Subject | Keywords | Material |
19.4. |
1. Introduction 2. Basics 2.1. Phase diagram of water 2.2. Standard model and QCD 2.3. QCD matter in nature 2.4 Relativistic kinematics |
chemical potential aymptotic freedom running coupling rapidity |
L1.pdf |
26.4. |
2.5. Properties of nuclei A |
binding energy abundance of nuclei liquid drop model fermi gas model |
L2.pdf |
3.5. | 2.5 Properties and excitation of nuclei |
asymmetry energy shell model magic numbers |
L3.pdf |
10.5. | -- | ||
17.5. |
3. Hadron-hadron interactions 3.1. Deuteron properties 3.2. Scattering formalism |
magentic moment tensor forces partial wave decomposition |
L4.pdf |
24.5. | 3.3. Nucleon-nucleon interactions |
scattering of potentials scattering amplitude optical theorem inelastic/elastic cross sections phase shift |
L5.pdf |
31.5. | -- | ||
7.6. | 3.3. Nucleon-nucleon interactions |
scattering length One pion exchange One boson exchange NN potentials |
L6.pdf |
14.6. |
4. Thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter 4.1. Equation of state of nuclear matter 4.2. Liquid-gas phase transition |
free energy equation of state energy density functional |
L7.pdf |
21.6. |
4.3. Thermal model 4.4. Critical point 4.5. Freeze-out |
signals of liquid gas phase transition multifragmentation temperature determantion
|
L8.pdf |
28.6. |
5. Dynamics of Heavy - Ion Reactions 5.1. Centralities 5.2. Observables 5.3. Collective flows |
quark gluon plasma phase transition glauber model particle production stopping |
L9.pdf |
5.7. | 5.4. Dynamical models |
Radial/directed/elliptic Flow Reaction plane Fourier expansion of azimuthal distributions Introduction to models |
L10.pdf |
12.7. |
5.4. Dynamical models 6.0 Chiral phase transition |
Hydrodynamics Transport models Vlasov equation Collision integral explicit and spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking quark condensate chiral partner electromagnetic decay of vector mesons |
L11.pdf |
19.7. | Exam |
Übungsblätter
- Neuste_Version_Problemsheets.pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-1.pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-10ps.pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-10ps_1.pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-2ps.pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-3ps.pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-4ps.pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-5ps.pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-6ps.pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-7ps.pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-8ps(1).pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-8ps.pdf
- NuclPhysSS18-9ps.pdf
- PresentationPrepFAIR__Spiller.bmp
- VNuclearPhysics_2018-(1).pdf
- VNuclearPhysics_2018-(2).pdf
Übungsgruppen
- Gruppe 1 (Deppner)
11 Teilnehmer/innen
Do 14:15 - 16:00
Exercise sheet 1 Exercise sheet 2 Exercise sheet 3Exercise sheet 4 Exercise sheet 5 Exercise sheet 6 Exercise sheet 7 Exercise sheet 8 corrected version! Exercise sheet 9 Exercise sheet 10 Solutions for sheet 1 to 10 (many thanks goes to Bianca Reich who made the electronic version of the solutions available)
Final exam: point to mark conversion table
Points | Mark |
40 - 36 | 1 |
35 - 32 | 1,5 |
31 - 28 | 2 |
27 - 24 | 2,5 |
23 - 20 | 3 |
19 - 16 | 3,5 |
15 - 12 | 4 |