Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics (450)    

Prerequisites: physics 491 (QMI) or consent of the instructor

Required Text:    Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Ashok Das and Thomas Ferbel

Other suggested texts:
    Particles and Nuclei, Povh, Rith, Scholz, Zetsche (standard advanced undergraduate text)
    Introduction to High Energy Physics, Perkins (standard advanced undergraduate text)
    Introduction to Elementary Particles, Griffiths (a bit more advanced)
    Particle Physics, Seiden (a bit more advanced)
    Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments, Leo

Course requirements and grading: equal weight of 12 hw assignments, 1 midterm, term paper, final
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• Violence in the Cosmos
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• REFERENCE MATERIALS
• Particle Data (PDG from LBNL)
• Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST 
• The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty 
• Periodic Table of the Elements 
• Table of Isotopes 
• isotopic composition and masses
• The Isotopes Project Homepage
  
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• Wolfram integrals 
• Physical Review 
• spires HEP search database from SLAC
  
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