Teacher(s)
Language
French
Content
1. Basic concepts
- Brief history of nuclear and particle physics
- Relativity and antiparticles
- Spatio-temporal symmetries and conservation laws
- Feynman interactions and diagrams
- Particle exchange: forces and potentials
- Observable quantities: cross sections and decay rate
- Mass spectroscopy
- Nuclear shapes and sizes
- Semi-empirical mass formula: the liquid drop model
- Nuclear instability
- Disintegration chains
- Phenomenology of disintegration #
- Fission
- Disintegration #
- Nuclear reactions
- Leptons
- Quarks
- Hadrons
Teaching methods
Learning activities include lectures, exercises and practical work.
The lectures aim to introduce the fundamental concepts, to motivate them by presenting examples and establishing results, to show their reciprocal links and their relationships with the different parties associated with this teaching unit, and to establish links with the rest of the teaching units of the bachelor's degree in physical sciences.
The practical work sessions aim to learn how to use the ideas and formalism developed in subatomic physics in order to explain the results of experiments carried out in laboratory sessions or described as part of the lecture.
The practical work carried out during sessions of specific practical work or descriptions of past experiences aims to provide an introduction to experimental methods in these disciplines and to validate the theoretical notions seen during or the establishment of theoretical notions following the observation made in the laboratory.
The lectures aim to introduce the fundamental concepts, to motivate them by presenting examples and establishing results, to show their reciprocal links and their relationships with the different parties associated with this teaching unit, and to establish links with the rest of the teaching units of the bachelor's degree in physical sciences.
The practical work sessions aim to learn how to use the ideas and formalism developed in subatomic physics in order to explain the results of experiments carried out in laboratory sessions or described as part of the lecture.
The practical work carried out during sessions of specific practical work or descriptions of past experiences aims to provide an introduction to experimental methods in these disciplines and to validate the theoretical notions seen during or the establishment of theoretical notions following the observation made in the laboratory.
Evaluation methods
The evaluation takes the form of an oral examination, preceded by preparation time.
Online resources
Different resources (slides and supporting documents) are put online via the MoodleUCL platform.
Bibliography
Brian R. Martin, Graham Shaw, "Nuclear and Particle Physics: An Introduction", 3rd Edition, ISBN:
978-1-119-34461-2.
K. S. Krane, "Introductory Nuclear Physics", 3rd edition, ISBN: 978-0-471-80553-3.
978-1-119-34461-2.
K. S. Krane, "Introductory Nuclear Physics", 3rd edition, ISBN: 978-0-471-80553-3.
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