Nuclear Theory / Theoretische Kernphysik

Instructor:

Achim Schwenk
S2|11 205, Tel. -21550
Office hours: Wed, 15:00-16:00

This course provides an introduction to modern nuclear theory. The lecture will be held in English, as all references are in English; questions and discussions in German are of course welcome. The homework problems will be designed to improve the understanding of and to explore the topics covered in the lecture.

Announcements

The bonus test has been graded and the results are available from the exercise tutors. Of the 15 people who took the bonus test, 8 have achieved the bonus (with ≳ 50 % of the score).
We have uploaded lecture notes from past lectures. We are in the process of combining these into new lecture notes, which will be provided as each chapter is finished. The complete lecture notes of the course will be available at the end of the course.
Please also note the extensive material from the INT TALENT course (see below).
There are no stupid questions!
Please let us know if something can be improved.

Outline

Organizational matters and guiding principles
Introduction to nuclei and strong interactions notes
Nuclear forces: scattering and bound states
relevant scattering theory notes (in German)
older lecture notes
Effective theories for low energies
older lecture notes 1 2 3
Many-body basics
older lecture notes on second quantization
Many-body methods for nuclei and nuclear matter
Chiral effective field theory for nuclear forces and applications to nuclei

Exercises

Exercise groups (biweekly)

Participation and solving homework sets are essential for understanding the material.

Group	Time	Room
A	Fri, 9:50-11:30	S2\|11 10
B	Fri, 9:50-11:30	S2\|07 109

Literature

Lecture notes will be provided. An extensive set of material is also given at
http://www.int.washington.edu/PROGRAMS/talent13/