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
