Description
Objectives
Familiarization with the processes of interaction of radiation with matter. knowledge of applications and methods of detection, protection and biomedical and industrial uses of radiation. Promote hands-on actions of radiation udes in the laboratory environment.
Syllabus
1.Nuclear and particle physic: Discovery of the nucleu; Rutherford experiment, the discovery of elementary particles. 2.Structure of matter. 2a) elementary particles and fundamental interactions: range and stength; Quarks, leptons, bosons. mesons and barions; quantum numbers, symmetries and conservation laws; Relativistic kinematics and natural system of units; Feynman diagrams 2b) Nuclear phenomenology and nuclear modes: nuclear masses, nuclear binding energy , nuclear stability (Zvs N), nuclear decay. Nuclear Radius, nuclear spin. Nuclear Models. 3.From Bing to Ñucleosynthesis: 3a)The first seconds of the universe and the LHC: the discovery of the Higgs boson, the standard model of electroweak interactions (W and Z bosons) 3b) The formation of elements: primordial and stellar nucleosynthesis; neutron star collisions and the production of heavy elements. 4. The neutrino puzzle: Neutrino Mixing and Oscillations
Prerequisites
To achieve the expected learning objectives, students must have prior knowledge of electromagnetism and elementary quantum mechanics.
Cross Competence Component
80% - Critical and innovative thought 20% among intrapersonnal Competence, interpersonnal Competence and Information Literacy.
Laboratorial Component
The UC has a laboratory component for demonstrating concepts of the interaction of radiation with matter and corresponding measurement.
Programming And Computing Component
The laboratory component makes use of data acquisition technologies where emphasis is given to the treatment of experimental errors (statistical and systematic error) and linear adjustment methods, which are coded by the students, constituting the basis of the critical analysis of the results obtained and of the comparison with the expected results.
Ethical Principles
All members of a group are responsible for the group’s work In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used. In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.