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Practical applications of nuclear physics, course overview,
nuclear accelerators, nuclear units and constants of nature,
de Broglie wavelength of electron and heavy-ion beams
From quarks to nuclei
Basic experimental facts
nuclear chart and decay modes
nuclear densities and binding energies
nuclear astrophysics
Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) facilities
Basic theoretical concepts
Q-value formalism for nuclear reactions, with applications
Nuclear many-body Hamiltonian, quantum systems of identical particles,
Slater determinants, spin and isospin formalism, free nuclear Fermi gas
Single-particle motion: spherical and deformed shell models
Collective motion: surface vibrations (including fission),
rotations, and giant resonances
The nucleon-nucleon (N-N) interaction
Nuclear many-body theory in "occupation number representation"
Brief discussion of "ab initio" calculations for light nuclei
Ground state mean field theory: static and constrained Hartree-Fock (HF)
Beyond the mean field: residual interactions
BCS pairing model for nuclei, HF + BCS calculations
Self-consistent mean field theory with pairing: Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB)
Random Phase Approximation (RPA): theory of collective excitations
Time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF): dynamic theory of nuclear reactions
DC-TDHF: heavy-ion potentials and sub-barrier fusion
Summary and Outlook: Glimpses of the Future