PHYSICS 871
Nuclear Physics

Instructor: Simonetta Liuti

Mon.-Wen.-Fri., 10:00-10:50, Room 210

Office Hours: Monday, 1:00 to 3:00 and when needed.

Textbook: The Structure of the Proton, R. G. Roberts, Cambridge Press.

Brief Description and Aim: This course explores current ideas and experiments in Nuclear Physics. During the past decade the idea has emerged that by probing nuclei with high energy electron and hadron beams one can unravel properties of strong interactions that an isolated nucleon would not possess. The course will summarize this viewpoint. It will provide a thorough introduction to inclusive inelastic lepton ( ) scattering as a fundamental tool to study the structure of hadronic systems in the framework of QCD. Elements of nuclear structure will be reviewed as well as the most recent developments in the phenomenology of high energy hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions.

The textbook will be important as a guideline. The instructor's notes will be handed out when needed. Other recomended reading are suggested (see Syllabus).

General Organization: Homework assignements will be handed out weekly. The purpose of the homework is on one side to facilitate the students in keeping track of the technical developments explained in class and on the other to help them develop an independent approach to studying new concepts in (nuclear) physics.

The final exam will consist in a presentation on one of the subjects related to the course. Working groups of two or three students (sharing the material to be presented) are encouraged.

Syllabus

1. Jan. 27th to 31st: Introduction - Electron-Nucleon (Nucleus) Scattering

   (R Chap. 1-2, C Chap.9, Fe).

2. Feb. 3rd to 7th: Continued.
3. Feb. 10th to 14th: Quark-Parton-Model - Phenomenology, OFPT

   (R Chap. 3, C Chap. 10-11, M Chap.4, Fe).

4. Feb. 17th to 21st: Continued.
5. Feb. 24th to 28th: Perturbative-QCD: i) Introduction to RG-OPE

   (R Chap. 4, M Chap. 3-4, CTEQ).

6. Mar. 3rd to 7th: ii) Evolution Equations

   (R Chap. 5, B, Fi).

7. Mar. 10th to 14th: SPRING BREAK.
8. Mar. 17th to 21st: iii) Phenomenology

   (R Chap. (6)-7).

9. Mar. 24th to 28th: Deep Inelastic Scattering in Nuclei- Overview and related experiments

   (R Chap. 8, BP).

10. Mar. 31st to Apr. 4th : Continued.
11. Apr. 7th to 11th: Elements of Nuclear Structure - Glauber Theory

    (W, CdA, J).

12. Apr. 14th to 18th: Continued.
13. Apr. 21st to 25th: Recent developments in low energy QCD.
14. Apr. 28st to 30th: Continued.

R = Roberts (Textbook); C = F.Close, Introduction to Quarks and Partons, Pergamon Press; M = T.Muta, Foundations of QCD, World Scientific; Fe = R.Feynman, Photon-Hadron Interactions, Frontiers in Physics; CTEQ = Handbook of perturbative QCD, Rev.Mod.Phys. 67(1995)157; B = A.Buras, Asymptotic freedom in deep inelastic processes ..., Rev.Mod.Phys 52(1980)199; BP = Barger and Phillips, Collider Physics, Frontiers in Physics; Fi = Field, Applications of perturbative QCD, Frontiers in Physics; W = D.Walecka, Theoretical nuclear and subnuclear physics, Oxford Press; CdA = C.Ciofi degli Atti, Electron Scattering by Nuclei, Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys., Vol.3, p.163; J = Jelley, Fundamentals of Nuclear Physics, Cambridge Press.

The dates on this Syllabus are tentative and could be varied as the course develops.