PHYS 7561 - Contemporary Nuclear Theory: The Study of Strongly-interacting Matter

Theoretical topics in contemporary nuclear physics. Emphasis will be on giving students calculations to complete which promote understanding of issues at the forefront of contemporary research. Areas to be discussed may include: lattice QCD, models of hadron structure, the nucleon-nucleon interaction, ab initio calculations of light nuclei, the electromagnetic structure of hadrons and light nuclei, factorization in QCD, parton distrbution functions, modification of pdfs in the nuclear environment, predictions for heavy-ion collisions, properties of strongly interacting matter at high densities and temperatures.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I