561A (Fall 2017)

PHYS 561A:  Theoretical Nuclear Physics (Fall quarter, 2017)

W     2:30-3:50    PAA A110

 F      1:00-2:20    PAB B101

Instructor:   Silas Beane           B457     OH:  Anytime

TA:              Shi Jin                   B462     OH:  Afternoons

Subject matter

This course will be a QCD-based introduction to modern nuclear theory. It will begin with an introduction to QCD in perturbative and non-perturbative formulations. 

Effective field theories of QCD relevant in various regimes of energy and parameter space will be considered, including chiral perturbation theory, and other effective 

field theories of nucleon structure and nuclear forces. Aspects of the parton model and QCD-based descriptions of physics relevant to high-energy hadron and 

electron-hadron experiments will be reviewed. Theoretical concepts related to the QCD phase diagram --like the unitary fermi gas, nuclear matter, and color 

 superconductivity-- and aspects of finite temperature QCD, including deconfinement and chiral-symmetry restoration, will also be covered. 

Prerequisites

Prerequisites: one year of graduate quantum mechanics is probably necessary, and one year of quantum field theory would be helpful but not essential. 

Useful References

Aspects of Symmetry, Sydney Coleman

Dynamics of the Standard Model,  Donoghue, Golowich and Holstein

The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume II, Steven Weinberg

Heavy Quark Physics, Manohar and Wise

Weak Interaction and Modern Particle Theory, Georgi

H. Leutwyler, Benasque Lectures

B. Kubis, Benasque Lectures

Chiral dynamics in nucleons and nuclei, By V. Bernard, Norbert Kaiser, Ulf-G. Meissner. 10.1142/S0218301395000092. 

Building light nuclei from neutrons, protons, and pions, By Daniel R. Phillips. 10.1007/s10582-002-0079-z.

Baryon chiral perturbation theory, By By Elizabeth Ellen Jenkins, Aneesh V. Manohar.

Lecture notes, By Martin J. Savage, 

An Introduction to spin dependent deep inelastic scattering, By Aneesh V. Manohar.

Parton distribution functions, By Davison E. Soper. 10.1016/S0920-5632(96)00600-7.

Quark matter, By Thomas Schäfer. hep-ph/0304281.

Effective field theory and the Fermi surface, By Joseph Polchinski. hep-th/9210046.

Effective field theory for dilute Fermi systems, By H.W. Hammer, R.J. Furnstahl.  10.1016/S0375-9474(00)00325-0.

Five lectures on effective field theory, By David B. Kaplan. nucl-th/0510023.

Original Sources

Phenomenological Lagrangians, By Steven Weinberg. 10.1016/0378-4371(79)90223-1.  

Chiral Perturbation Theory: Expansions in the Mass of the Strange Quark, By J. Gasser, H. Leutwyler. 10.1016/0550-3213(85)90492-4. 

Chiral Perturbation Theory to One Loop, By J. Gasser, H. Leutwyler. 10.1016/0003-4916(84)90242-2. 

Baryon chiral perturbation theory using a heavy fermion Lagrangian, By Elizabeth Ellen Jenkins, Aneesh V. Manohar. 10.1016/0370-2693(91)90266-S. 

Chiral symmetry breaking without bilinear condensates, unbroken axial Z(N) symmetry, and exact QCD inequalities, By Ian I. Kogan, Alex Kovner, Mikhail A. Shifman. 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.016001.

Spontaneous flavor and parity breaking with Wilson fermions, By Stephen R. Sharpe, Robert L. Singleton, Jr. 10.1103/PhysRevD.58.074501.

Two nucleon systems from effective field theory, By David B. Kaplan, Martin J. Savage, Mark B. Wise. 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00440-4.

Effective field theory of short range forces, By U. van Kolck. 10.1016/S0375-9474(98)00612-5. 

Rearranging pionless effective field theory, By Silas R. Beane, Martin J. Savage. 10.1016/S0375-9474(01)01088-0.

Effective chiral Lagrangians for nucleon - pion interactions and nuclear forces, By Steven Weinberg. 10.1016/0550-3213(91)90231-L. 

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