Syllabus
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Course Code: PHY 202 Course Name: Nuclear and Particle Physics |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Radiation Interaction and Nuclear Forces (12 hrs.) Interaction of Charged Particles with Matter: qualitative description of various energy loss mechanisms, their relative contribution in case of heavy ions and electrons, classical stopping power equation for electronic energy-loss (no derivation) with significance of various terms involved, behavior of electronic energy-loss curve as a function of ion velocity, concept of energy straggling and range straggling and their correlation; Interaction of Gamma Radiation with Matter: features of photoelectric, Compton and pair production processes, Nuclear Forces: experimental evidence of charge symmetry and charge independence of nuclear forces, concept of isospin, Meson theory of nuclear forces, relationship between the range of the force and mass of the mediating particle. |
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| 2 | Radiation Detectors and Nuclear Reactions (12 hrs.) Gamma Ray Spectrometer: basic principle and working of NaI (Tl) scintillation detector, mechanism of pulse formation, basic idea of pulse processing unit, concept of energy resolution and efficiency of detector and its applications; Semiconductor Detectors: basic principle, construction and working and applications of Si surface barrier detector, high purity germanium detector. Nuclear Reactions: types of nuclear reactions, Q-value of a nuclear reaction and its determination, definition of cross section and its significance, elementary idea of compound nuclear reactions and direct reactions. concept of neutron detection, Coulomb excitation, nuclear kinematics. |
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| 3 | Nuclear Properties and Radioactive Decays Basic nuclear properties: size, shape and charge distribution, spin and parity. Binding energy, semi-empirical mass formula, liquid drop model, Deuteron problem; Ground state of deuteron, Magnetic moment and its importance in the determination of exact ground state of deuteron. Radioactive Decays: energetics of alpha decay, tunnel theory of alpha decay, energetics of beta decay, Fermi theory of allowed beta decay, importance of Fermi-Kurie plot, parity non-conserving property of neutrino; |
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| 4 | Particle Physics (12 hrs.) Units in high energy physics; Classification of particles- fermions and bosons, particles and antiparticles; Strange particles, Basic idea of different fundamental types of interactions with suitable examples; Quark flavors and their quantum numbers, Quarks as constituents of Hadrons, Qualitative idea of Quark confinement and asymptotic freedom, necessity of introducing the Color quantum no., Quark model, decay of pion and muon, Gell-Mann Nishijima formula, conservation laws. |
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