Introductory Nuclear and Particle Physics

 

Docente: Silvia Leoni               
Dipartimento di Fisica                 
1°  piano LITA                                              
Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano                      
Tel. 02 50317 293                          
Silvia.Leoni@mi.infn.it                

Course for
Laurea Triennale (56+24 h)

Ricevimento (Ufficio Docente)
Su appuntamento via e-mail

Text Books


K.S. Krane
Introductory Nuclear Physics

Wiley & Sons

 

B. Povh, K. Rita, C. Scholz, F. Zetsche

Particelle e Nuclei

Boringhieri

 

A. Das and T. Ferbel

Introduction to

Nuclear and
Particle Physics

World Scientific

Program
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Progetto "Pił Donne nella Fisica"  (25 INFN Fellowships)

per studentesse iscritte al corso di laurea magistrale in Fisica o  in Scienze dell'Universo

presso Universitą italiana per l'a.a. 2024/2025
Scadenza Bando 31 gennaio 2025, link Bando           

 

Stages of 3-6 months for training and preparation of Bachelor/Master Thesis

Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble (France)

https://www.ill.eu/neutrons-for-society/science-at-ill/nuclear-and-particle-physics/

 

Special Initiative for Undergraduate Students (30 INFN Fellowships)

"Rewriting Nuclear Physics textbooks - 30 Years with Radioactive Ion Beams"                            

Pisa (Italy), July 2015, 2017 and 2019 (new edition upcoming)                                                                         
Poster, Program 

 

                                          Contact Prof. S. Leoni for information

                                     

 

» PART1 (Nuclear Physics):

 

1 NUCLEAR PROPERTIES

1.1 Nomenclature and Nuclear Chart

1.2 Evidence of the Nucleus and Nuclear Radii

1.3 Nuclear Masses and Binding Energies  

1.4 Angular momentum and Parity

 

2 RADIOACTIVITY

2.1 Radioactive decay

2.2 Alpha decay

2.3 Beta decay

2.4 Gamma decay

2.5 Fission

2.6 Two-Proton Decay

 

3 NUCLEAR MODELS

3.1 Liquid Drop Model

3.2 Nuclear Interactions

3.3 Nuclear Shell Model

3.4 Collective Models

 

4 NUCLEAR REACTIONS

4.1 Scattering

4.2 Transfer

4.3 Fusion

 

»PART 2 – PARTICLE PHYSICS

 

5 PARTICLE PROPERTIES

5.1 Particles and Anti-particles

5.2 Symmetries

5.3 Muon and Pions

5.4 Quark Model

5.5 Oscillations

5.6 QCD

5.7 The Standard Model

 

6 APPLICATIONS

6.1 Radiation Interactions

6.2 Detectors

6.3 Accelerators

6.4 Application to Medicine

6.5 Nuclear Astrophysics