Nuclear-Particle Physics

This class teaches nucleon-nucleon interaction, the meson theory, quantum electrodynamics, quantum chromodynamics, gauge theories, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and quantum field theory.

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The unit system: Let ℏ = c = 1. Energy and mass have equal dimension; and length and time have the reciprocal dimension. [E] = [M] = [L]^-1 = [T]^-1 The units are MeV (mega electron volts).

Lecture Notes

History of Nuclear and Particle Physics

Basics for Nuclear Particle Phyiscs

Discoveries for Elementary Particles and Nuclear Physics

Particle Accelerators and detectors

Basic Ideas for Particle Properties

Memorandom

• Basic ideas of the quantum field theory
• Basic derivations of the field theory
• Legendre transformation for Lagrangian of the non-linear sigma model
• Notes for quarks
• How to derive the magnetic moments of a proton and a neutron
• The centrifugal barrier
• The effective range theory
• The deuteron properties
• An infinite complex integral
• The difference between local and non-local potentials
• The difference between on-shell and off shell momenta
• The difference between reducible and irreducible diagrams
• The reason why the potential in configuration space cannot simply be derived from Fourier transformation

Example Problems

• A low energy scattering with an infinite-finite potential well
• A low energy scattering with a finite potential wall
• Phase-shift with a spherical potential
• The Born approximation and its limitation

References

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