SUBJECT

Title

Experimental methods in nuclear physics

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

3

Recommended in

Semester 2

Typically offered in

Spring semester

Course description
  • Overview of particle accelerators at intermediate energy: GSI, Legnaro, Ganil, MSU, RIKEN.
  • Experimental possibilities of producing radioactive ion beams, fragmentation, fission, ISOL.
  • Properties of nuclei far from stability and the corresponding detection technics: neutron halo, shell closure, complex neutron detector systems, pulse shape discrimination, particle indentification technics using semiconductor detectors.
  • Measuremet technics to determine neutron capture cross sections of short-lived nuclei.
  • Nuclear activation technics for nuclear analytics and for cross-section determination, PIXE analysis. 
Readings

required readings:

  • Glenn F. Knoll: Radiation detection and measurement. John Wiley & Sons USA 1989.

recommended readings:

  • W. R. Leo: Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments: A How-To Approach, Springer-Verlag Berlin, 1987
  • C.A. Bertulani, M. Hussein and G. Muenzenberg,: Physics of radioactive beams, Nova Science, Hauppage, NY, 2002,