PH5: How Can We See Nuclei? - An Overview of Nuclear Structure and the Role of Isospin Quantum Number -

label Diverse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:01 history_edu Silviu Marinescu
We seek to reorganize the basic understanding of Nuclear Structure Physics from a rather broad view point by combining the individual knowledge that you may already have. Nuclei can be defined as a "Quantum Finite Many-body System" in which Strong, Electromagnetic and Weak interactions are active. We try to understand the very basic properties of this unique system in which three forces out of four fundamental forces play important roles. We see that these three forces make "nuclear excitations and particle decay", "Coulomb excitations and gamma decay" and "neutrino-induced reactions and beta decay", respectively. In addition, they compete with each other to make their activity in nuclei wider. In order to connect the phenomena caused by these three forces, the concept of "isospin" and "isospin symmetry" is important. The concept of isospin is originated from the two fermionic degree of freedom in nuclei, i.e., protons and neutrons, and we can categorize the nuclear excitations in terms of isospin as well as spin, where the latter is also a unique degree of freedom in nuclei. We learn how isospin quantum number play important roles in nuclear structures, excitations and decays taking the spin-isospin type nuclear excitations, especially the Gamow-Teller excitation, as an example. Gamow-Teller excitation is one of the weak processes and they play important roles in the field of nuclear astrophysics. Therefore, nuclear physics and its relationship with the Universe is also of our concern.

Period
11-08-2014 - 15-08-2014 (1 weeks)

Target group
Prerequisites: Basics of Quantum Mechanics and very Basic Nuclear Physics.

Course aim
The most important aims of the Summer School are to develop post-graduates scientific readiness and to offer students the possibility to study in a modern, scientific environment and to create connections to the international science community.



Credits
2.0 ECTS creditsObligatory attendance at lectures, and reports.Grading: Pass/fail

Course fee
EUR 0[Convert to USD]Participating the Summer School is free of charge, but student have to cover the costs of own travel, accommodation and meals at Jyvskyl.

Course leader
Coordinator: Prof. Ari Jokinen (University of Jyvskyl, Finland)Lecturer: Dr. Yoshitaka Fujita (Research Center for Nuclear Physics and Department of Physics, Osaka University)

Scholarships
The 24th Jyvskyl Summer School is not able to grant any Summer School students financial support. In order to ensure your participation, we recommend that you take steps to secure your own funding, for example, by turning first to your home institution

University of Jyvaskyla Faculty of Mathematics and Science and Faculty of Information Technology
Address: Jyvaskyla Summer School, Faculty of Mathematics and Science P.O.Box 35 (YK312), FIN-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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City: Jyvaskyla
Country: Finland
Website: http://www.jyu.fi/summerschool
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