PHYS.5610 Nuclear Physics I (Formerly 95.461/561)
Id: 001214
Credits: 3-3
Description
Nuclear properties including size, mass, binding energy, electromagnetic moments, parity and statistics; nuclear shell model, collective structure, deformed shell model, radioactive decay law and the Bateman equations, radioactive dating, counting statistics, energy resolution, coincidence measurements and time resolution, lifetime measurements; nuclear barrier pentetration; angular momentum, Coulomb barrier, alpha decay and systematics, fission. (offered as 95.561 for graduate credit).
Prerequisites
Pre-Req: 95.210 Introductory Modern Physics
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