SUBJECT
Title
Experimental methods in nuclear physics
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
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,