Nuclear and Hadronic Models

Year
1
Academic year
2023-2024
Code
02003465
Subject Area
Physics
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Other Languages of Instruction
English
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Nuclear Physics.

Teaching Methods

Lectures on the blackboard and tutorials where the students discuss with the lecturer the problems that they solve at home.

Learning Outcomes

Main learning outcomes:
Recognising the most common nuclear and hadronic models that are currently used to explain the properties of nuclei and their applications.
Being able to identify the conditions and limits of validity of these models and how they can be generalised in such a way to enlarge their scope, descriptive power and prediction capabilities.
Solid knowledge of the basic mathematical tools needed in the study and application of these models.

Other learning outcomes:
Skills in analysis, synthesis and critical reasoning
Problem solving skills, including selection and analysis of relevant data
Development of autonomy in the study, including planing and organisation of tasks;
Development of creativity skills and capability to adapt to new problems and situations.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Nuclear models.
Shell models: description of spherical and deformed nuclei.
Collective excitations: giant resonances and rotational levels.
Efective models: the Skyrme interaction.
Mean field relativistic models and their generalisations.

Hadronic models.
The constituents of the hadrons. The MIT bag model.
Chiral symmetry and linear sigma model.

Head Lecturer(s)

Brigitte Anabelle Vaz Abreu Hiller

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Gauge theories in particle physics, Vol.I, Relativistc Quantum Mechanics to QED. I.J. R. Aitchison and A.J. G. Hey.

Gordon Kane:Modern elementary particle physics

Concepts of Particle Physics, vol. 1, K. Gottfried, V.F. Weisskopf

Quarks and Leptons, Halzen and Martin

Dynamics of the Standard Model, J. Donoghue, E. Golowich, B. Holstein

Mayer-Kuckuk, Física dos Núcleos Atómicos

Many-body physics: P. Ring and P. Schuck.

B. Povh, K. Rith, C. Scholz e F. Zetsche, Particles and Nuclei, Springer, 1995

K. S. Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics, J. Wiley, 1988.

R. K. Bhaduri, Models of the nucleon, Addison-Wesleu, 1988.

D. Serot e J. D. Walecka,  The relativistic nuclear Many-body, Advances in Physics 16,Plenum, 1986.