In the specific area of the discipline (Nuclear Physics and Particle), students should acquire skills to: understand the physical phenomena involved and deepen this knowledge; solve problems using the acquired knowledge; communicate (with specialists and non-specialists) the interpretation of questions and solutions to problems.

Generic skills to achieve: Information management competence; Competence in analysis and synthesis; Competence to communicate with people who are not experts in the field; Adaptability to new situations; Concern sustainable development; Competence to apply in practice the theoretical knowledge.

The fundamental interactions. Particle classification.
Radioactivity alpha, beta, gamma and electron capture; nuclear fission and fusion.
Nuclear force. Mass of the nucleus and binding energy. Yukawa theory.
Liquid drop model. Semi-empirical mass formula (Weizsäcker) and nuclear stability. Model Fermi gas. Density of states, Fermi momentum and energy. Alpha decay. Gamow theory, selection rules and other tunneling processes. Shell model. Spin-orbit interaction. Magnetic dipole moment, electric quadrupole moment, deformed nuclei, collective excitations.
Electromagnetic transitions. Selection rules and transition probabilities. Isomerism.
Weak interaction. Beta decay. Fermi beta decay model.
Standard Model. Feynman diagrams. Propagators. Weak interaction and field bosons. Leptons and quarks. Quantum chromodynamics (gluons). Asymptotic freedom. Violation of P and CP.
Nuclear fission and fusion.

Quantum Mechanics I and II, Foundations of Modern Physics