CSIR NET 2022 Syllabus
- Basic nuclear properties: size, shape and charge distribution, spin and parity.
- Binding energy,
- The semiempirical mass formula,
- liquid drop model.
- Nature of the nuclear force, a form of nucleon-nucleon potential, charge-independence and charge-symmetry of nuclear forces.
- Deuteron problem.
- Evidence of shell structure, single-particle shell model, its validity and limitations.
- Rotational spectra.
- Elementary ideas of alpha, beta and gamma decays and their selection rules.
- Fission and fusion.
- Nuclear reactions, reaction mechanism, compound nuclei and direct reactions.
- Classification of fundamental forces.
- Elementary particles and their quantum numbers (a charge, spin, parity, isospin, strangeness, etc.).
- Gellmann-Nishijima formula.
- Quark model, baryons and mesons. C, P, and T invariance.
- Application of symmetry arguments to particle reactions.
- Parity non-conservation in the weak interaction.
- Relativistic kinematics.
GATE 2022 Syllabus
- Nuclear radii and charge distributions
- Nuclear binding energy
- Electric and magnetic moments; nuclear models
- liquid drop model: semi‐empirical mass formula
- Fermi gas model of the nucleus
- Nuclear shell model
- Nuclear force and two nucleon problem; alpha decay, beta‐decay,
- Electromagnetic transitions in nuclei
- Rutherford scattering
- Nuclear reactions
- Conservation laws
- Fission and fusion
- particle accelerators and detectors;
- Elementary particles, photons, baryons, mesons and leptons
- Quark model
Lecture 1. Nucleus and Nuclear forces