Course Content and detailed plan

Lectures are approximately 45 min each with a small break between each lecture. There is also a coffee break of 30 min in the morning sessions. It will most likely be scheduled around 1030am and is not marked in the program below. Lunches are served from 1pm. The morning sessions are scheduled to end around 1230pm. The acronyms are

  • AG: Alexandra Gade
  • BAB: Alex Brown
  • GJ: Gustav Jansen
  • MHJ: Morten Hjorth-Jensen
  • RG: Robert Grzywacz

Week 1, July 3-7

Day Lecture Topics and lecturer Projects and exercises
Monday 3 9am-930am Registration at the ECT
930am-10am Introduction and welcome (BAB, MHJ and GJ)
10am-1230pm Survey of data (BAB) Intro to NushellX (BAB)
1230pm-230pm Lunch +own activities
230pm-6pm More survey of data (BAB) NushellX hands-on and discussion of project (MHJ)
Tuesday 4 930am-1130pm Mean-field and shell-model basics (MHJ) Discussion of second quantization and simple shell-model project
1130am-1230pm Single-particle potentials and shell-model basics (BAB)
1230pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-6pm Single-particle potentials Studies of separation energies, shell gaps etc
Wednesday 5 930am-1130am Welcome by ECT director Jochen Wambach and Shell-model basics (MHJ) Discussion of simple shell-model project
1130am-1230pm Shell-model dimensionalities (BAB)
1230pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-6pm Work on shell-model project and NushellX
Thursday 6 930am-1130am Shell-model basics (MHJ) Discussion of simple shell-model project
1130am-1230pm Proton-neutron formalism and isospin (BAB)
1230pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-6pm Work on shell-model project and NushellX
Friday 7 930am-1230pm Effective interactions for shell model (GJ)
1230pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-5pm Group presentation of work on shell-model project and NushellX

Week 2, July 10-14

Day Lecture Topics and lecturer Projects and exercises
Monday 10 930am-1030am Masses from experiment (AG)
1030am-1230pm Effective Hamiltonians (BAB and GJ)
1230pm-230pm Lunch +own activities
230pm-6pm Work on shell-model project and NushellX
Tuesday 11 930am-1030am Spectroscopic factors from experiment (AG)
1030am-1230pm Spectroscopic factors from theory (BAB)
1230pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-330pm Monte Carlo Shell-model seminar by Takaharu Otsuka
330pm-6pm Work on shell-model project and NushellX
Wednesday 12 930am-1130am Introduction to \( \beta \)-decay, experiment (RG)
1130am-1230pm \( \beta \)-decay and sum rules from theory (BAB)
1230pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-330pm Discussion of IBM and shell-model by Noam, Tobias and Takaharu
330pm-6pm Work on shell-model project and NushellX
Thursday 13 930am-1030am Electromagnetic decays from experiment (AG)
1030am-1230pm Shell-model transition probabilities (BAB)
1230pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-330pm Presentation by Guillaume
330pm-6pm Work on shell-model project and NushellX
Friday 14 930am-11am Advanced aspects of \( \beta \)-decay, experiment (RG)
11am-1230pm Summary of first two weeks and outlook for final week and discussion of the shell-model project (MHJ)
1230pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-5pm Group presentation of work on shell-model project and NushellX

Week 3, July 17-21

Day Lecture Topics and lecturer Projects and exercises
Monday 17 930am-12pm Building a shell-model code (MHJ)
12pm-1pm More on \( \beta \)-decay and \( \gamma \) decay (BAB)
1pm-230pm Lunch +own activities
230pm-6pm Work on shell-model project and NushellX
Tuesday 18 930am-12pm Building a shell-model code, Lanczos' algorithm and Hartree-Fock theory (MHJ)
12pm-1pm \( \gamma \) decay (BAB)
1pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-330pm Laser spectroscopy talk by Agi and Shane
330pm-6pm Work on shell-model project and NushellX
Wednesday 19 930am-12pm From Hartree-Fock theory to the shell-model, analyzing the results (MHJ)
12pm-1pm \( \gamma \) decay Two-body transition operators and double-beta decay (BAB)
1pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-330pm No-core shell-model talk by Patrick and Nuclear interactions by Tor
330pm-6pm Work on shell-model project and NushellX
Thursday 20 930am-1230pm From Hartree-Fock theory to the shell model, discussion of final project and summmary of course (BAB and MHJ)
1230pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-5pm Group presentation of work on shell-model project and NushellX
Friday 21 930am1230pm Project work and own activities (no lectures)
1230pm-230pm Lunch+ own activities
230pm-6pm Own activities