TALENT: Training in Advanced Low Energy Nuclear Theory

                               Course 6: Theory for Exploring Nuclear Reaction Experiments

                               1 - 19 July 2013, GANIL, Caen, France


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Course lectures: slide presentations: supplementary information

 

Lectures (both slides + voice) are becoming available on-line day by day: here

Final forms of the lecture slides and supplementary information is linked below

 


Week 1: 1st - 5th July 2013


Monday:  Bound, continuum, resonance and bin states, Slides

 

Tuesday: Overlap functions and the shell model, Slides (overlaps, shell model)

      Further introductory information on the shell model:

      H. Grawe, Shell Model from a Practioner's Point of View,

                     Euroschool Lectures Vol. 1
      T. Otsuka, Shell Structure of Exotic Nuclei,

                     Euroschool Lectures Vol. 2

 

Wednesday: Scattering Theory I,  Slides (scattering theory, fresco introduction)

 

Thursday: Scattering Theory II, Slides (scattering theory, sfresco introduction)

 

Friday: Coupled channels and collective excitations, Slides

            Project work schedule


Week 2: 8th - 12th July 2013


Monday: Cluster-like couplings and the continuum, Slides (theory, calculations 

 

Tuesday: Eikonal methods, Slides (elastic, knockout)

 

Wednesday: Semiclassical concepts and methods, Slides

 

Thursday: Transfer reactions, Slides (formalism, applications)

 

Friday: Capture and fusion reactions, Slides (capture, fusion)       

               


Week 3: 15th - 19th July 2013


Monday: R-matrix methods I, Slides (calculable, phenomenological)

 

Tuesday: R-matrix methods II,

                   Slides (phenomenological, essential azure, further azure)

 

Wednesday: Microscopic descriptions I, Slides

 

Thursday: Microscopic descriptions II, Slides

 


Other (supplementary) lecture notes, slides and material:

 

Ian Thompson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Exotic Beams Summer School 2011: Introductory Lecture

 

Notes of Antonio Moro: Nuclear Reactions: applications and examples

Lectures given at the TRIUMF Summer Institute 2008

 

Notes on the Resonating Group Method (RGM): Descouvemont  and Dufour

  

Other material used can be found in: Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics

 

Notes of Jeff Tostevin:      Probing single-particle structures in rare nuclei

                                            Few-body models applied to Nuclear Reactions (Tostevin and Al-Khalili)

                                            A LateX version can be found here

 

Notes of Daniel Baye:      R-matrix methods  (see also material at the R-matrix resources tab)

                                            Microscopic/cluster approaches

 

Notes of Ron Johnson:     Few-body models of direct reactions

 

Lectures Brett Carlson:    The Optical model and optical model calculations ( with reference

                                            to the code ECIS95) Discussion of Feshbach P and Q formalism

 


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