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 discussion and homework problems will be designed to improve the understanding of and to explore the topics covered in the lecture.

Announcements

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.
Please email us to arrange office hours before the exam.

Outline

Organizational matters and guiding principles

Notes

handout

Introduction to nuclei and strong interactions
Notes, handout
Nuclear forces: scattering and bound states
Preliminary chapter, Nov. 2, Nov. 9, Nov. 11, Nov. 16, Nov. 23, Nov. 25, Nov. 30, Dec. 2, Dec. 7
Effective theories for low energies
Dec. 14, Dec. 16, Dec. 21, Jan. 11
Many-body basics
Jan. 18, Jan. 20, Jan. 25
Many-body methods for nuclei and nuclear matter
Feb. 1, Feb. 3
Chiral effective field theory for nuclear forces and applications to nuclei
Feb. 8

Exercises

Exercise groups (biweekly)

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

Group	Time	Room	Instructor
A	Fri, 9:50-11:30	S2\|11 10	Hannah Göttling
B	Fri, 9:50-11:30	S2\|14 24	Margarida Companys

Office hours

Time	Room
Fr 15:30 - 16:30	S2\|11 207 (Seminar room on second floor of theory center)

Literature

Lecture notes will be provided. An extensive set of material is also given at
https://archive.int.washington.edu/PROGRAMS/talent13/index.htm