Suggested Prerequisites for Nuclear and Hadron Physics:

Physics 243. Quantum Mechanics III - Quantum mechanics and group theory including such
topics as group representations; the symmetric, permutation, crystallographic, and other finite
groups along with their physical application; the rotation group; introduction to unitary
symmetry; Clebsch-Gordan, Wigner, and Racah algebras

Physics 245. Advanced Quantum Mechanics I - Formal scattering theory; relativistic quantum
mechanics; Feynman calculational techniques and Feynman graphs

Physics 246. Advanced Quantum Mechanics II - Quantum theory of many-body systems using
the methods of second quantization, Feynman graphs, Green’s functions, and other techniques

Nuclear Physics main electives:

Physics 281. Nuclear Physics I - Nuclear structure; self-consistent fields; shell model; single-
particle excitations and vibrations, linearization methods; theory of deformed nuclei; pairing in
nuclei; quasi-particles
Physics 282. Nuclear Physics II - Nuclear reactions; optical model; compound nuclear
reactions; direct reactions; coupled-channel methods; other reaction theories
Physics 294. Experimental Methods of Nuclear Physics - Advanced laboratory techniques and
instrumentation of nuclear physics
Physics 381. Advanced Nuclear Physics - Selected advanced topics of current interest in
nuclear physics
Additional courses for Hadron physics concentration:
Physics 285. Elementary Particle Physics I - Space-time properties of particles; classification
of particles and their symmetries; properties of particles and their interactions
Physics 286. Elementary Particle Physics II - Selected topics in strong and weak interactions;
current-algebras; dispersion theory; gauge theories; and S-matrix theory
Physics 311. Advanced Mathematical Physics I - Structure and representation theory of
various Lie groups
Physics 341. Quantum Field Theory 1 - Lagrangian field theory; field quantization; Feynman
path integral in field theory; renormalization; dimensional regularization and its application to
lambda phi theory
Physics 342. Quantum Field Theory 2 - Path integral formulation of gauge theories;
perturbative evaluation of gauge theories; some applications to the theory of elementary
particles; current problems