Introduction to nuclear and particle

physics

Gerd Petzoldt(tutorials)

Oliver Zimmer(lecture)

Schedule WS 2004/05

1. Introduction – an appetizer

I. Physics of the atomic nucleus

2. A first view on nuclear properties

3. Particle accelerators

4. Scattering processes

5. Geometrical shape of the nucleus

6. Nuclear decays

7. Models of the nucleus

8. Nuclear magnetic resonance

9. Nuclear reactions

10. Nucleosynthesis

11. Nuclear forces

II. Particle physics

Systems, sizes: :Energy-spectra

Povh et al.,„Particles & nuclei“

Fundamental interactions

Some useful books

• Povh, Rith, Scholz, Zetsche:

Particles and nuclei (Springer 1999)

• Frauenfelder, Henley:

Subatomic physics (Prentice Hall 1999)

• Segre:

Nuclei and particles (Benjamin 1965)

• Perkins:

Introduction to high energy physics (Addison Wesley 1986)

• Krane:

Introductory nuclear

physics

(Wiley & Sons 1987)

• Halzen, Martin:

Quarks and leptons

(Wiley & Sons 1984)

• Kane:

Modern elementary

particle physics

(Addison Wesley 1987)

The nuclear chart

500 MeV electrons: 10 meV neutrons:

Atomic nuclei Macromolecules (a few 10-15 m) (a few 10-9 m)

ILL annual report 1996 (soft matter) www.ill.fr

Exciting the proton:

Inelastic electron-proton scattering

Povh et al., „Particles & nuclei“

Spectra of positronium and charmonium(Povh et al., Particles & nuclei)

3He magnetic resonance imaging of the lung

Non-smoker Light smoker

Mainz University and University hospital Mainz, 1999

...Applications

Instrumental developments

Questions, you should (hopefully will) be able to answer after this

lecture:

• From where do we know about the age of the universe?

• How are the chemical elements created?

• Why does the sun shine, and why so long?

• Why are free neutrons unstable but many atomic nuclei stable?

• What are fundamental particles and forces?

• How does application of magnetic fields provide us with pictures from inside our bodies?

1. Introduction – an appetizer

i. Hierarchical order of matter

ii. Fundamental particles and forces

iii. Composite systems

iv. Understanding our Universe

v. Applications of subatomic physics