PHY 982

Topics in Nuclear Physics

A Multi-Titled Course (MTC)

Fall, Spring Semester

3 credits ( 3 hr lecture, 0 hr lab)

A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.

Prerequisites:

• PHY 852, PHY 881

PHY 982A

Nuclear Physics: Heavy Ion Reactions

3 credits ( 3 hr lecture, 0 hr lab)

Prerequisites:

• PHY 831, PHY 852, PHY 881

Scattering, particle transfer, resonance reactions, fission. Time-dependent Hartree-Fock, Vlasov equation. Nuclear transport equations, particle production, nuclear liquid-gas phase transition, quark-gluon plasma.

PHY 982B

Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Structure

3 credits ( 3 hr lecture, 0 hr lab)

Prerequisites:

• PHY 852, PHY 881

Nuclear forces, nuclear matter, nuclear-structure models, and few-nucleon systems.