Course Materials and Schedule (preliminary and subject to change)

  Textbook: Nuclear and Particle Physics - An Introduction, B.R. Martin

	Lecture Date		Chapter #	Tentative Topics	Lecture Notes	Assignment due
	Th	01/04	-	End of Winter Holidays
Week 1	Tu	01/09	1	Introduction; History of Nuclear Physics	Origins
	Th	01/11	1	Properties of Elementary Particles; Spin & Magnetic Moment	Properties
Week 2	Tu	01/16	1	Quantum Numbers & Conservation Laws	Parity
	Th	01/18	1 & Appendix B	Relativistic Kinematics; Invariant Mass	Kinematics I
Week 3	Tu	01/23	1 & Appendix B	Reference Frames; Kinematics of π0 → γγ	Kinematics II
	Th	01/25	1	Particle Exchange: Forces and Potentials	Yukawa Potential
Week 4	Tu	01/30	1	Cross Section; Rutherford Scttering	Cross Section
	Th	02/01	2	Mass Spectroscopy; Nuclear Shapes and Sizes: Charge Distribution	Form Factors
Week 5	Tu	02/06	2	Binding Energies; Semi-empirical Mass Formula; Radioactive Decays	Mass Formula	Assignment 1;  Solution
	Th	02/08	2	Radioactivity; Half Life and Biological Effects of Radiation	Radioactivity
Week 6	Tu	02/13		Mini-Exam - UPL 109;  Solution		Assignment 2;  Solution
	Th	02/15	3	Lepton Multiplets & Numbers; Neutrino Mixing and Oscillations	Leptons
Week 7	Tu	02/20	3	Flavour Independence and Charge Multiplets; Isospin	Flavour Independence
	Th	02/22	4	Hadrons; Accelerators and Beams	Accelerators	Assignment 3;  Solution
Week 8	Tu	02/27		Tour to the FSU Tandem Laboratory
	Th	03/01	4	Accelerators and Detectors (Dr. Dobbs)	Detectors
Week 9	Tu	03/06	4	Particle Interactions with Matter, Bethe-Bloch Formula; Review	Particle Interactions	Assignment 4;  Solution
	Th	03/08		Midterm-Exam; UPL 109
Week 10	Tu	03/13		SPRING BREAK
	Th	03/15
Week 11	Tu	03/20	6	Symmetries and Spin Structure of the Weak Interaction	Weak Interaction
	Th	03/22	6	Weak Interaction: Cabbibo Angle; Selection Rules	Selection Rules
Week 12	Tu	03/27	5	Quarks & Gluons; Color Degree of Freedom	Color	Assignment 5;  Solution
	Th	03/29	5	Strong Coupling Constant, QGP, Jets & Gluons	Jets, Quarks & Gluons
Week 13	Tu	04/03	5	Deep Inelastic Scattering: Spin of the Quarks	DIS I	Assignment 6;  Solution
	Th	04/05	5	Nucleon Structure: Fractional Charges of the Quarks	DIS II
Week 14	Tu	04/10	7	Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction; Fermi Gas Model	Fermi Gas Model	Assignment 7;  Solution
	Th	04/12	7	Nuclear Shell Model	Shell Structure
Week 15	Tu	04/17	8	Nuclear Fusion: Coulomb Barrier, Stellar Fusion	Nuclear Fusion
	Th	04/19	9	Outstanding Questions in Nuclear Physics	Prospects
Week 16	Tu	04/24		Presentation of Projects: Landrum, Mitchem, Sweeney		Assignment 8;  Solution
	Th	04/26		Presentation of Projects: Messick, Kobert?
Last Week	Mo	04/30/2018	Good Luck	FINAL EXAM, 5:30 - 7:30 PM, UPL 109