Description

• Principle of special relativity and its consequences for the description of space-time and its transformations, mass-energy equivalence.
• Nuclear reactions: global properties of the nucleus, theory of direct reactions and composed  nucleus formation;
• Nuclear models: Fermi gas - stability of degenerate Fermi gas, case of self-conjugating nuclei.
• Layered model: basic formulation, nuclear mean field, some recent developments (residual interactions).
• Collective models: isoscalar vibrations / giant resonances, rotations of deformed nuclei.
• Gamma decay, electromagnetic interaction and nuclei;
• Beta decay, weak interaction and nuclei;
• Relativistic versions of the Schrödinger equation, notions of anti-particles and spinners;
• Discrete and continuous symmetries in quantum physics;
• Calculations of effective cross sections, lifetimes and particle widths;
• Introduction to Feynman diagrams, interaction mediator particles and propagators;
• Strong interaction: quark model, isospin, introduction to SU(3);
• Electroweak interaction: weak currents and symmetry violation.