This course delves into the complexities of the proton as a relativistic many-body system, exploring its structure and the puzzles it presents in the realm of nuclear physics. The learning outcomes include understanding the proton's composition, its spin milestones, the proton spin puzzle, and the efforts to solve mysteries related to its size. The course teaches skills in analyzing proton charge radius, spin structure of the nucleon, and extracting quark total angular momentum. The teaching method involves a lecture format with a focus on theoretical and experimental aspects. The intended audience for this course includes students and professionals interested in nuclear physics, particle physics, and quantum chromodynamics.
Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Nuclear physics is the study of the structure of matter
Proton: a fascinating many-body relativistic system Higgs discovery almost irrelevant to proton mass
What is inside the proton/neutron?
Proton Charge Radius
Muonic hydrogen Lamb shift at PSI (2010, 2013) nature Nature 466, 213-216 (8 July 2010)
Revisits of QED Calculations....
PRad Experimental Setup in Hall Bar Lab
Spin Milestones and Proton Spin
Spin structure of the nucleon
The incomplete nucleon: spin puzzle
Longitudinal Spin Structure
Unified View of Nucleon Structure
Generalized parton distributions and DVCS
Extraction of quark total angular momentum
Parity-violating electron scattering
The Electron lon Collider Two proposals for realization of the Physics Case
Proton spin and hadron structure?
Taught by
APS Physics
