Introduction: fundamental constituents of matter, fundamental interactions, symmetries and conservation laws, units;
First part: nuclear physics
- General properties of nuclei;
- Nuclear stability;
- Nuclear scattering;
- Geometrical properties of nuclei;
- Nuclear force:nucleon-nucleon scattering, the Deuteron;
- Nuclear structure: Fermi gas model, shell model, beta decay;
- Nuclear thermodynamics: primordial nucleosynthesis and stellar nucleosynthesis;
Second part: elementary particle physics;
- Nucleons, leptons and mesons;
- Dirac equation and antimatter;
- Symmetries: generalities, C, P, and T, lepton and baryon number, isospin;
- relativistic kinematics;
- Lie groups;
- Hadrons and resonances;
- Quark model;
- Quantum electrodynamics;
- Deep-inelastic scattering;
- Nucleon structure: from parton model to QCD;
- Weak interactions;
- Neutrinos: mixings, oscillations and masses.