Nuclear Physics

summer term 2018
Lecturer: Yvonne Leifels, Ingo Deppner
Link to LSF
11 participants

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

Useful links:

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	Gibbs potential 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

Problem sheets

Practice groups

Group 1 (Deppner)
11 participants
Thu 14:15 - 16:00

Exercise sheet 1
Exercise sheet 2
Exercise sheet 3
Exercise 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