Relativistic Nuclear Models
1
2017-2018
03005933
Physics
Portuguese
English
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
3rd Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Quantum Mechanics, Special Relativity and Statistical Physics.
Teaching Methods
Constant reference to the physical systems to which the quantum-relativistic equations pertain. Emphasis on the mathematical methods and techniques needed to obtain the properties of nuclei and equations of state.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge about several nuclear relativistic models presently used to describe nuclear matter and finite nuclei.
Application of these models to the study of present nuclear physics problems: equations of state of nuclear matter, finite nuclei, collective modes.
Knowledge about modelling relativistic heavy ion reactions and interpretation of the data.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
The sigma-omega model in the mean field approximation and generalizations
Quantum Hadrodynamics
Relativistic RPA
Nuclear models with chiral symmetry
Interactions NN with chiral symmetry
Ab initio calculations of nuclear straucture
Equation of state for asymmetric matter
The phase diagram of QCD
The Glauber model, eikonal approximation.
Models of particle production,thermalization, hydrodynamic expansion, and freeze-out mechanisms in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Project: 40.0%
Resolution Problems: 60.0%
Bibliography
Theoretical Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics, John Dirk Walecka, Oxford University Press, 1995
B. D. Serot and J. D. Walecka, Advances in Nuclear Physics 16, Plenum Press, New York, 1986.
P. Ring, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 37 (1996) 193
Relativistic Hadronic Matter and phase transitions, Constança Providência, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 16 (2007) 2680
W. Florkowski, Phenomenology of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion physics, 2010.
K. Fukushima and T. Hatsuda, The phase diagram of dense QCD, Rept.Prog.Phys.74:014001,2011.
Nuclear forces and ab initio calculations of atomic nuclei,U.-G. Meissner, Nucl. Phys. A928 (2014), 64.