Physics: Nuclear Technology

Course Description

This Masters programme lasts one year (full-time) and contains 180 credits. You will undertake 120 credits of advanced laboratories and lecture courses in Semesters 1 and 2. Your curriculum will be flexible and tailored to your prior experience and chosen research project. Semester 1 courses will focus on building core theoretical and experimental/computational skills relevant to the area of astrophysics, while courses taken in Semester 2 will build key research skills – in preparation for the extended 60 credits project which runs over the summer period.

Core courses include:

• Environmental Radiation
• Nuclear Power Reactors
• Imaging and Detectors
• Medical Imaging
• Detection and Analysis of Ionising Radiation laboratory project
• Research Skills
• Problem Solving Workshop
• Advanced Data Analysis
• Advanced Nuclear Physics
• Extended project

Optional courses include:

• Advanced physics laboratory
• Relativistic Quantum Fields
• Dynamics, Electrodynamics & Relativity
• Advanced Electromagnetic Theory
• Statistical Mechanics
• Plasma Theory and Diagnostics (alternate years starting 2013-14)
• Energy and Environment
• Nuclear and Particle Physics
• Numerical Methods
• Advanced Mathematical Methods