2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

FIS/04 (NUCLEAR AND SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS)

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE

1°

1st semester (12/10/2015 - 22/01/2016)

6

48 lesson hours

ITALIAN English-friendly: some of teaching material in English, exam in English upon request, lectures possibly in English upon request

ORAL TEST

It is recommended to attend the course after Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Field Theory.

Introduction to phenomenology of hadrons (in particular of the proton, as the prototype of nuclei) in the context of the Strong Interaction of the Standard Model: the Quantum Chromodynamics.

Introduction to phenomenology of low-energy Strong Interactions: the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and the problem of confinement. QCD symmetry groups and the meson and baryon spectroscopy. Young tableaux; G-parity and mesonic nonets; mixing and the OZI selection rule. Color SU(3) group and confinement. Theory of lepton-hadron scattering. Scaling of structure functions. The Parton Model and the partonic densities. The Callan-Gross relation. Phenomenology of inelastic (electroweak) processes, both inclusive and semi-inclusive, with or without polarization. Sum rules. Beyond the Parton Model: scaling violations and Altarelli-Parisi equations. Hints about the Operator Product Expansion (OPE); OPE definition of the partonic densities. The “spin crisis” and the orbital motion of partons inside the parent hadron.

traditional lectures projecting PowerPoint slides and scanned hand-written notes

- F. Close, "An Introduction to Quarks and Partons" (Academic Press, 1979)
- R.K. Bhaduri, "Models of the Nucleon: from Quarks to Soliton" (Addison-Wesley, 1988)
- M.E. Peskin and D.V. Schroeder, "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory" (Addison-Wesley, 1995)
- M. Guidry, "Gauge Field Theories - An Introduction with Applications" (John Wiley & Sons, 1991)
- R.G. Roberts, "The Structure of the Proton - Deep Inelastic Scattering" (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990)
- C.T.E.Q. Collaboration, "Handbook of perturbative QCD", http://www.phys.psu.edu/~cteq#Handbook
Other material available at:
http://www2.pv.infn.it/~radici/welcome-it.html#Attivita`_didattica

Oral examination. It consists in delivering a talk, followed by discussion, about deepening the knowledge on a subject to be chosen among those ones listed in the Programme.

Oral examination. It consists in delivering a talk, followed by discussion, about deepening the knowledge on a subject to be chosen among those ones listed in the Programme.