FYSS3471 Nuclear models and nuclear data: bridging the gap (2 cr)
Description
Content
The course includes three two-hour lectures of the current view of nuclear structure. This discussion takes mostly place in the theoretical frameworks of the Shell Model and the Bohr Collective Model. Rather than studying foundations of these models, the view is taken in the point of nuclear data. These lectures will provide a view of how to proceed with respect to incorporating the Shell Model and the Bohr Collective Model into the exploration of the nuclear many-body problem, both experimentally and theoretically. A view to the phenomenon of shape coexistence will be included: this has proven to be a major direction necessary to understand most (all) nuclei. Further, some ideas that address the unification of the Bohr Model with the Shell Model will be presented, i.e., a view to microscopic collective models of the nucleus.
Completion methods
Lectures, written assignments, exercises.
Learning outcomes
Description of prerequisites
Study materials
- “Fundamentals of Nuclear Models: Foundational Models”, D.J. Rowe and J.L. Wood, World Scientific, Singapore, 2010. CHAPTER 1.,
- “Shape Coexistence in Atomic Nuclei”, Kris Heyde and John L. Wood, Rev. Mod. Phys. 83 1467 (2011).,
- “Nuclear Shapes: from Earliest Ideas to Multiple Shape Coexisting Structures”, K. Heyde and J.L. Wood, Phys. Scr. 91 083008 (2016),
- "Quantum Mechanics for Nuclear Structure: A Primer”, Kris Heyde and John L. Wood, IOP Series in Nuclear Spectroscopy and Nuclear Structure, series editors John Wood, David Jenkins, and Kristiaan Heyde, available 2020 [proof copy provided, Feb 2019].