Subject Code:   PH5L012 Subject Name:   Nuclear and Particle Physics L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): Quantum Mechanics I,  Electrodynamics  I
Nuclear properties: General properties: radius, mass, binding energy, nucleon separation energy, angular momentum, parity, electromagnetic moments, excited states; Nuclear models: liquid drop model, semi - empirical mass formula; Fermi gas model of nucleus, nuclear shell model; Nuclear reactions: energetics, conservation laws, isospin, classification of nuclear reactions, fusion and fission; Nature of the nuclear force, form of nucleon-nucleon potential; Charge-independence and charge-symmetry of nuclear forces; Radioactive decay: radioactive decay law, production and decay of radioactivity, radioactive dating. detection of nuclear radiation, alpha, beta and gamma decays; The Deuteron problem, Shell model and magic numbers, Collective models; Particle Phenomenology: elementary particles and interactions: fundamental interactions, classification of particles: leptons and quarks and gauge bosons; Quark model, quark dynamics, Standard model, Gell-Mann Okubo mass formula, Symmetries and conservation laws Parity violation in weak interaction, The V-A interaction, weak current, muon decay, pion decay, Cabbibo angle, CP violation in neutral Kaon decay, Kaon oscillations.
Text/Reference Books:
  1. Martin B. R., Nuclear and Particle Physics, Wiley.
  2. Krane K. S., Introductory Nuclear Physics, John Wiley
  3. Griffiths D., Introduction to Elementary Particles,Wiley.
  4. Ferbel Thomas, Das Ashok, Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, World Scientific Publishing Company.
  5. Martin Brian, Nuclear and Particle Physics, An Introduction, Wiley.
  6. Mittal V. K.,  Verma R. C.,  Gupta S.C.,  Introduction To Nuclear And Particle Physics, Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd.
  7. Fernow Richard Clinton, Introduction to Experimental Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press.
  8. Martin B. and Shaw G. P., Particle Physics, Wiley.
  9. Perkins D. H., Introduction to High Energy Physics, Cambridge.
  10. Halzen F. and Martin Alan D., Quarks and Leptons, Wiley India edition.
  11. Hughes I. S., Elementary Particles,Cambridge.
  12. Roy R. and Nigam B. P., Nuclear Physics: Theory and Experiment, New Age.