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8.711 Nuclear Physics
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Graduate (Spring)
Prereq: 8.321 and 8.701
Units: 4-0-8
Lecture: TR1-2.30 (26-328) +final
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Modern, advanced study in the experimental foundations and theoretical understanding of the structure of nuclei, beginning with the two- and three-nucleon problems. Basic nuclear properties, collective and single-particle motion, giant resonances, mean field models, interacting boson model. Nuclei far from stability, nuclear astrophysics, big-bang and stellar nucleosynthesis. Electron scattering: nucleon momentum distributions, scaling, olarization observables. Parity-violating electron scattering. Neutrino physics. Current results in relativistic heavy ion physics and hadronic physics. Frontiers and future facilities.
O. Chen
Textbooks (Spring 2019)