Relativistic Nuclear Models

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)

No

Syllabus

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.