Entry requirements

120 credits with Nuclear Physics and Quantum Mechanics. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• use symmetries, conservation laws and kinematical conditions in order to give physical explanations for nuclear physics processes
• account for different experimental methods that gives information on properties of hadrons and nuclei
• calculate nuclear physics quantities and processes
• describe how the structure of nuclei is related to the many-body system of interacting nucleons
• summarise the properties of exited nuclei and hadron resonances and their
• carry out a laboratory exercise and to document it in an analytic way.

Content

The course gives deepening knowledge about nuclear structure and hadron physics, the main areas of nuclear physics, including a certain level of training to carry out an experiment and the corresponding data analysis.

Nuclear properties. Nucleon-nucleon interaction, scattering, nuclear models, strong and electromagnetic interaction. Optical models, resonance scattering and nuclear reactions, including the calculation of the cross section for certain processes. Production and decay of nucleon and meson resonances. Quark structure of hadrons. Symmetry properties of hadronic processes. Fission. Nuclear astrophysics.

Laboratory exercise: Gamma spectroscopy of excited energy levels.

Instruction

Lectures, lessons, laboratory exercise.

Assessment

Written examination at the end of the course including problem solving and calculational tasks. Passing also requires an approved laboratory course and approved hand-in exercises.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.