8.712
Advanced Topics in Nuclear Physics
Subject for experimentalists and theorists with rotation of the following topics: (1) Nuclear chromodynamics-- introduction to QCD, structure of nucleons, lattice QCD, phases of hadronic matter; and relativistic heavy ion collisions. (2) Medium-energy physics-- nuclear and nucleon structure and dynamics studied with medium- and high-energy probes (neutrinos, photons, electrons, nucleons, pions, and kaons). Studies of weak and strong interactions.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: 8.711 or permission of instructor G (Fall, Spring) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-9 units Can be repeated for credit.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027