Phys 490

PHYS 490:
Nuclear and Particle Physics
Winter 2007

sno.phys.queensu.ca/~potato/phys_490.htm

Instructor:	Tony Noble
Office:	Stirling 208G
Contact:	Phone 613-533-2679 email `potato@owl.phy.queensu.ca` WEB sno.phy.queensu.ca/~potato/
Class:	Mon 10:30 am - 11:30 am Wed 09:30 am - 10:30 am Fri 08:30 am - 09:30 am
Classroom:	Stirling 412 B
Office hours:	Mon 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Wed 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 am

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News

Tutorials:

The tutorial will be held Monday April 16th at 10:00 am

The room will be Stirling 201

Old News: The midterm has been scheduled for Wednesday March 7th, 2007 from 7 pm to 9 pm. You will be allowed to bring a single sheet of letter size (8.5" x 11") paper with useful formula, notes, etc on it. You may use both sides. The midterm will cover all of the nuclear physics material covered before the reading week break.



Description: This course provides an introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics. The first half of the course will focus on nuclear physics, covering the basic properties of nuclear matter, nuclear models and their decay and interaction properties. The second part of the course will cover particle phenomenology, the quark model, the electroweak interactions, and future prospects.

Text: The course text book will be "Nuclear and Particle Physics" by W.S.C. Williams.; There are many other texts on the market that deal with this subject, and you will likely find it useful to consult a variety of texts to get the clearest understanding. I have found the following texts to be useful:

Krane, K.S., Introductory Nuclear Physics, J. Wiley & Sons, New York (1988).
Segre, E, Nuclei and Particles, Benjamin Cummings Publishing Company, Reading, Mass., 1980.
Griffiths, D, Introduction to Elementary Particles, (Wiley, 1987)
Dunlap, R, The Physics of Nuclei and Particles, (Thomson, 2004)
Perkins, D, Introduction to High Energy Physics, (Cambridge, 4th ed, 2000)

Teaching Assistants: The Markers for the course will be: Kelly Foyle and Yanguang Zhang . They will share the marking task for homework assignments.; Office: Kelly Foyle: Stirling 355; Office: Yanguang Zhang: Stirling 206a

Syllabus (click to expand lists)

Nuclear Physics ▼
Lecture 1: Introduction to the course. Basic units and concepts in nuclear physics. Suggested reading: Sec: 1.6 2.2

Lecture 2: Determining properties of nuclei, like size and charge distributions, with electron elastic scattering. Sec 3.1 to 3.4.

Lecture 3: Determining properties of nuclei from atomic and muonic X-rays and the isotopic shift. Sec 3.5 to 3.6.

Lecture 4: Nuclear Binding Energy and implications for fusion and fission. The semi-empirical liquid drop model. Chapter 4.

Lecture 5: Introduction to radioactivity. Decay law, lifetimes, multimodel and sequential decays. Sec 2.3 to 2.6.

Lecture 6: Types of Radioactivity and decay conditions. ( alpha α, beta β, and gamma γ ).

Lecture 7: Applications of Nuclear Physics: Radioactive dating, Neutron activation for trace element analysis, alpha sources and nuclear medicine. Sec 2.8

Lecture 8: Nuclear Reactions. Notation, Concept of cross-section, Kinematics and Reaction energies. Sec 2.10, 7.2 to 7.6.

Lecture 9: Nuclear Reactions II (Compound States and resonances) and Introduction to Nuclear Models. Sec 2.9, 7.7 - 7.10.

Lecture 10: Nuclear Models I Recap Atomic formulism Sec 8.1 - 8.2.

Lecture 11: Nuclear Models II Nuclear Potentials. Sec 8.3 - 8.4.

Lecture 12: Nuclear Models III Spin-Orbit model. Determining Ground State Spin. Sec 8.5

Lecture 13: Parity and Nuclear Magnetic Moments in Nuclei. Sec 8.6,8.7.

Lecture 14: Excited States, Quadrapole Moments and Gamma decay. Sec 8.8,8.9, 11.5

Lecture 15: Gamma decay rates and selection rules. Sec 11.6, 11.7, parts of 11.8.

Lecture 16: Gamma decay selection rules and Branching Ratio. Fission Sec 11.8, 7.12, 7.13

Lecture 17: Fusion Sec 7.14

Lecture 18: Nuclear Physics in Canada

Particle Physics ▼

Lecture 19: Historical introduction to particle physics.
Lecture 20: Symmetries and conserved quantum numbers for particles. See sec 13.1 and scattered through chapter 10
Lecture 21: The Quark Model for mesons and baryons. Their arrangement as q-qbar and qqq, and hadron spectroscopy. See sec 10.1 to 10.5
Lecture 22: A very brief introduction to group theory as it relates to the Quark model. Not really covered in Williams. Some discussion in 10.11 and 10.13. Best text is H. Georgi "Lie Algebras in Particle Physics"
Lecture 23: The concept of colour for quarks. The prediction based on violation of Pauli exclusion principle, and subsequent experimental demonstration. Sec: 10.6 and 10.7.
Lecture 24: CPT. The fall of parity and CP in the weak interactions. Sec: 12.9
Lecture 25: An introduction to Feynman Diagrams. Sec: 9.4
Lecture 26: Continuation of Feynman Diagrams and Fermi's Golden Rule. Sec: 9.4 (as above), and parts of 12.5 relating to Golden Rule 2.
Lecture 27: Continuation of Feynman Diagrams and Fermi's Golden Rule. Calculation of neutral pion decay rate.
Lecture 28: The Dirac equation. Writing the full matrix element for QED.
Lecture 29: Weak Interactions. Overview of the rules governing weak interaction vertices. Sec 12.4
Lecture 30: Weak Interactions II. Nature of the weak interaction and Quark mixing.
Lecture 31: Weak Interactions III. Types of weak interactions and basic neutrino physics. Sec12.1 - 12.3,12.5, 12.6, 12.10
Lecture 32: QCD I. The Yukawa Theory of strong interactions and the modern view with gluons. Properties of gluons. Sec 9.10, 9.11 and 10.7
Lecture 33: QCD II. The heavy bound states of Quarkonia, the strong interaction potential, and confinment. Sec 10.8, 10.9
Lecture 34: Final comments on the standard model: Renormalization, the Higgs, neutrino Oscillations. Sec 9.3, 9.13, 14.7
Lecture 35: Beyond the Standard Model: SuperSymmetry, Dark Matter. Sec 13.8, 14.12

Schedule

January 2007
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8 Outline & Basics	9	10 Nuclear Size	11	12 Atomic & Muonic xrays	13
14	15 Binding Energy & LDM	16	17 Radioactivity Basics	18	19 Types of Radioactivity	20
21	22 Nuclear Physics Applications	23	24 Nuclear Reactions	25	26 Nuclear Reactions II & Nucl Models Intro	27
28	29 Nuclear Models I	30	31 Nuclear Models II

February 2007
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
				1	2 Nuclear Models III	3
4	5 Parity. Mag Mom	6	7 Excited states. Quad M	8	9 Gamma Decay	10
11	12 Gamma Decay BR & Fission	13	14 ♥ Fusion	15	16 Nuclear Physics in Canada	17
18	19 B	20 R	21 E	22 A	23 K	24
25	26 Introduction to particles	27	28 Symmetries

March 2007
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
				1	2 Quark Model	3
4	5 Group Theory & Quarks	6	7 Colour & QCD Midterm!	8	9 C,P,T	10
11	12 Feynman Diagrams I	13	14 Feynman Diagrams II	15	16 Feynman "Calculation"	17
18	19 Dirac Equation	20	21 Weak Interactions I	22	23 Weak Interactions II	24
25	26 Weak Interactions & Neutrinos	27	28 QCD: Gluons	29	30 QCD: Heavy Bound States	31

April 2007
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1	2 Final Comments on Standard Model	3	4 Beyond the Standard Model Last Class !!	5	6 Stat Holiday No more 8:30	7
8	9	10	11	12 Exam Period Begins	13	14
15	16	17	18 Phys 490/891 Exam	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28Exam Period Ends
29	30

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Marks

Homework assignments 25% ( Phys 490 undergraduates only )

There are 10 homework assignments worth 25% total. All assignments must be handed in before the beginning of the class on the due date. Late assignments will lose 20% of their value per day late. Marked assignments will be returned in class. It may be useful to have discussions with your peers about the homework assignments, but the work handed in must be your own work. Assignments which show signs of duplication will have marks deducted.

Assignment	Handed-out	Due Date	Answers
Assignment 1	Jan 12	Jan 19	Solutions 1
Assignment 2	Jan 19	Jan 26	Solutions 2
Assignment 3	Jan 26	Feb 2	Solutions 3
Assignment 4	Feb 2	Feb 9	Solutions 4
Assignment 5	Feb 9	Feb 16	Solutions 5
Assignment 6	Mar 2	Mar 12	Solutions 6
Assignment 7	Mar 11	Mar 16	Solutions 7
Assignment 8	Mar 16	Mar 23	Solutions 8
Assignment 9	Mar 23	Mar 30	Solutions 9
Assignment 10	Mar 31	Apr 9	Solutions 10

Phys 891 Graduate Students Only: In addition to the above assignments, the graduate students taking the course are expected to complete a term report. The assignments will carry a weight of 15%, and the term report will be worth 10%. The exams will carry the same weights for all students.; The reports will be "A summary of the current status of subatomic physics in Canada". I would like you to review the major efforts in particle physics, nuclear physics, astroparticle physics and theoretical subatomic physics (in the Canadian program). Describe the main research efforts, and what will be their impact on our knowledge of physics. For references. I suggest you use the four documents listed below. These were briefs presented to the Canadian subatomic physics Long Range Planning committee in 2005. They Include a discussion of the science, which you should concentrate on, plus sections on costs and demography, which you can safely ignore. The documents are:

The reports should be 10 - 15 pages long. The due date will be: April 9th, 2007

Examinations 75%

The midterm examination is worth 25%.

The midterm has been scheduled for Wednesday March 7th, 2007 from 7 pm to 9 pm in Stirling 412.

The final examination is worth 50%.

(This exam is comprehensive, covering material from the entire term.)

The final exam will be scheduled by Queen's Administration. The time and date will be announced when they are known.

The Final has been scheduled for Wednesday April 18th, 2007 from 7 pm to 10 pm

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interactions. Sec: 12.9

PHYS 490: Nuclear and Particle Physics Winter 2007

sno.phys.queensu.ca/~potato/phys_490.htm

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PHYS 490:
Nuclear and Particle Physics
Winter 2007