Outline

Lecture 1: ''What Can We Learn About Nuclear Structure From Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy?''
(nuclear deformation, shape parameterisation, quadrupole deformation, triaxiality,
vibrational motion)
Lecture 2: ''Low-Spin Nuclear Structure''
(pairing, moments of inertia, energy levels of a rotor, development of collectivity,
particle-vibration coupling, rotation-vibration model, non-adiabatic vibration, reflection
asymmetry, static and dynamic octupole deformation)
Lecture 3: ''Spherical And Deformed Shell Model''
(the nuclear mean field, potential wells, magic numbers, spin-orbit interaction, modified
harmonic oscillator, Wodds-Saxon potential, anisotropic harmonic oscillator, Nilsson model)
Lecture 4: ''Collective Nuclear Rotation''
(moments of inertia, rotation, signature, particle-rotor coupling, high-K bands, K isomers,
wobbling motion)
Lecture 5: ''Pairing And Quasiparticles''
(pairing, chemical potential, quasiparticles, Coriolis antipairing effects, backbending)
Lecture 6: ''Cranking''
(routhians and alignments, symmetries of rotating nuclei, signature quantum number,
cranked shell model, quasiparticle routhians, comparison to experiment, Strutinski shell
correction, total routhian surfaces)
Lecture 7: ''Broken Symmetries''
(reflection asymmetry, chirality, magnetic rotation, transitional nuclei)
Lecture 8: ''Band Termination''
(favoured non-collective oblate states, full termination, rigid-rotor plots, smooth
termination, beyond termination)
Lecture 9: ''Electromagnetic Transitions''
(electromagnetic radiation, charge and current densities, electromagnetic moments,
multipole expansion, electric and magnetic multipole operators, reduced matrix elements,
transition probabilities, Weisskopf units, electric quadrupole moments)
Lecture 10: ''Experimental Techniques''
(gamma-ray spectroscopy, fusion-evaporation reactions, gamma-gamma coincidences,
high-fold analysis, angular distributions, multipole mixing ratios, linear polarisation)