P633/634 Outline :

  1. Introduction
  2. Quantum Mechanics - review 
      Angular momentum 
      Tensor Operators, Wigner-Eckart theorem
      Rotation group, matrix representation
      Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Interactions pictures
      S-matrix
      Lippman-Schwinger equation
      Second quantization, particle number representation
      Quantum fields, (nonrelativistic) 
  3. N-N Interactions
      Preliminaries
      N-N scattering
      Symmetry constraints
      Properties of N-N potential
      Meson exchange models
  4. Nuclear Matter
      Properties of nuclear matter
      Fermi gas model
      Independent Pair Approximation
  5. Nuclear Structure
      Nuclear shell model
      Particle hole excitations
      Excited states
  6. Interactions with external probes
      Dirac equation
      Field quantization (relativistic)
      Feynman rules
      Quantum Electrodynamics
      Multipole analysis of the EM field
      Electron scattering
  7. Hadron Spectroscopy, symmetries and quarks
      U(1) (lepton, baryon, axial) P, C, invariance
      SU(2) Isotopic and G parity
      Meson and Baryon octets
  8. Constituent Quark Model 
      SU(6) : quarks with spin
      SU(6) x O(3) : ... and with orbital excitations
      Strong, EM and weak transitions
      Spectroscopy and model hamiltonians
  9. Parton model
      (In)elastic eN scattering
      Deep Inelastic Scattering
      Space-time picture of the parton model
      Constituent vs current quarks : quark-parton model
  10. Quantum Chromodynamics
      Color confinement
      QCD as a gauge theory
      Hamiltonian formulation
      Path integrals, Feynman rules and Green's functions
      Renormalization
  11. Applications
      e^+e^- annihilation
      Scaling violations in DIS
      Drell-Yan and fragmentation functions
  12. QCD in the Soft Domain
      Lattice formulation
      Heavy quarkonia
      QCD sum rules
      QCD inspired models
      Chiral invariance and effective Lagrangians
  13. Summary