Atomic Physics II
Contents
The course introduces fundamental concepts from atomic, nuclear and particle physics with the emphasis being placed on the structure of these "micro-physics" systems. The parallelism between the three areas is stressed. The lectures make extensive use of the introductory quantum mechanics course (see Physics 22) and will extend this material somewhat. The following subjects are covered:
- Spin, addition of angular momenta, perturbation theory, Feynman diagrams.
- Basic phenomenology, including the binding energy of nuclei, the particle physics degrees of freedom and the structure of the periodic table.
- The structure of one-, two- and more-electron atoms, the shell-model for nuclei, the quark-model for hadrons, including LS and jj coupling.
- Decays, emission of radiation, alpha- and beta-decays, basic theory of weak interactions.
- Some more advanced subjects (e.g. lasers, quark-gluon plasma) will be mentioned briefly.
Text-books
S. Gawiorowicz, "Quantum Physics" (2nd Edition); B. Povh, K. Rith, C. Scholz and F. Zetsche, "Particles and Nuclei;
plus notes.
Evaluation
4 hours written exam
ECTS-credits
10