Physics 506 (Nuclear and Subatomic Physics) provides
an introduction to modern nuclear physics and is
intended for advanced undergraduate or graduate
students. A brief outline is provided below.
Outline
Nucleons and Nuclear Forces
Properties of Nucleons and Nuclei
Nucleon-Nucleon forces and the deuteron
Conservation laws, isospin.
Nuclear Models and Nuclear Stability
The Fermi Gas and Liquid Drop Models
Radioactivity, Fusion and Fission
The Shell Model
Weak Interactions and Neutrinos
Weak Interactions: beta-deacy, e capture, etc
Quarks and leptons
Neutrino Physics
Fission and Fusion, Nuclear Astrophysics
Fission reactions, nuclear energy
Fusion recations
Stellar burning
The Quark Structure of Matter
Deep Inelatic Scattering and the Structure of the Nucleon
Heavy Ion Collisions and the Quark Gluon Plasma