Theoretical and experimental nuclear physics

Nuclear Physics|  Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies the building blocks and interactions of atomic nuclei. It must not be confused with atomic physics, that...

Chadwick discovers the final necessary particle|  In 1932 Chadwick realized that radiation that had been observed by Walther Bothe, Herbert L. Becker, Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie was actually due to a neutral particle of about the same mass as...

Modern nuclear physics| A heavy nucleus can contain hundreds of nucleons which means that with some approximation it can be treated as a classical system, rather than a quantum-mechanical one. In the resulting liquid-drop model, the nucleus has an energy which arises partly from surface tension and...

Nuclear fusion| When two light nuclei come into very close contact with each other it is possible for the strong force to fuse the two together. It takes a great deal of energy to push the nuclei close enough together for...

 

Research in Elementary Particle and Nuclear Physics| Particle and Nuclear Physics are concerned with the elementary building blocks of matter and the fundamental symmetries and interactions governing the foundations of ...

Particle Physics| Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. It is also called high energy physics, because many elementary particles do not occur under normal circumstances in nature, but...

Theoretical Particle Physics| Theoretical particle physics attempts to develop the models, theoretical framework, and mathematical tools to understand current experiments and make predictions for future experiments. There are several major efforts in theoretical particle physics today and...

Hadrons and Nuclei| The strong interaction, also known as quantum chromodynamics (QCD), is mediated through the gluons and is responsible for the formation of hadrons made up of a pair of quark and anti-quark (mesons) or alternatively...

Standard Model of Elementary Particles| In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle not known to have substructure; that is, it is not known to be made up of smaller particles. If an elementary particle truly has no substructure, then it is one of...

Quarks| Quarks and antiquarks have never been detected to be isolated, a fact explained by confinement. Every quark carries one of three color charges of the strong interaction; antiquarks similarly carry anticolor. Color charged particles interact via gluon exchange in the same way that...