Info
Course Code TAC445
Semester 7
Category Basic
Points 3
ECTS Units 5
Eclass
Lecturer
Recommended Reading
1) “Εισαγωγή στα Στοιχειώδη Σωμάτια και στην Κοσμολογία”, Ι. Βέργαδος, Σ. Λώλα, Η. Τριανταφυλλόπουλος.
2) “Εισαγωγή στην Πυρηνική Φυσική”, Cottingham, Greenwood.
Course Description

Nuclear Physics

1) Basic properties of the nucleus and nuclear force.

2) α,β,and γ radioactive decays.

3) Laws of radioactive decays.

4) Introduction to radiation detectors.

5) Nuclear Models.

6) Nuclear Reactions.

7) Brief Introduction to basic experiments of Nuclear Physics: Mossbauer effect, Goldhaber experiment, etc.

8) Applications: a) Operation principles of a nuclear reactor, b) Elements of solar nuclear physics.

Elementary Particle Physics

1) Introduction to the physics of elementary particles.

2) Leptons, quarks and gauge particles.

3) Mesons and baryons.

4) Kinematics.

5) Symmetries and conservation laws.

6) Introduction to gauge theories.

7) Parton model.

8) Resonances.

9) Feynman diagrams.

10) Standard Model of particle physics.

11) Higgs mechanism.