Topics in Nuclear Theory

2022 Course Programme

Instructors

Theodoros Gaitanos

– Liquid drop model-Semi empirical mass formula-Saturation of nuclear forces

-Basic principles of nuclear scattering T-matrix, electron scattering from nuclei, nuclear mass distribution, nuclear charge distribution. Electromagnetic moments and transitions.

– Properties of the fundamental nuclear interaction. Deuterium. Nuclear effective interactions.
Nuclear models: Fermi gas model, nuclear shell model, nuclear mean field model.

– Relativistic nuclear models. Basic principles of special relativity, relativistic field theory, relativistic hadrodynamics.