Physics: Nuclear Technology [MSc]

Modes of delivery of the MSc Physics: Nuclear Technology include lectures, seminars and tutorials and allow students the opportunity to take part in lab, project and team work.

• Advanced data analysis
• Detection and analysis of ionising radiation
• Environmental radioactivity
• Imaging and detectors
• Nuclear power reactors
• Research skills
• Extended project.

• Advanced electromagnetic theory
• Advanced nuclear physics
• Computational physics laboratory
• Dynamics, electrodynamics and relativity
• Energy and environment
• Medical imaging
• Nuclear and particle physics
• Numerical methods
• Plasma theory and diagnostics (alternate years starting 2015-16)
• Relativistic quantum fields
• Statistical mechanics.

The programme in Physics: Nuclear technology lasts 1 year and contains a minimum of 180 credits. You will undertake a minimum of 120 credits in Semesters 1 and 2 and be assessed on these courses either via continuous assessment, or unseen examination in the May/June examination diet, or a combination thereof. The remaining 60 credits will take the form of an extended MSc project, carried out on a specific aspect of theoretical, computational or experimental physics which has current or potential application in the areas of nuclear technology, nuclear energy, radiation detection or environmental monitoring. You will conduct this project while embedded within a particular research group – under the direct supervision of a member of academic staff.

Your curriculum will be flexible and tailored to your prior experience and expertise, particular research interests and specific nature of the extended research project topic provisionally identified at the beginning of the MSc programme. Generally, however, courses taken in Semester 1 will focus on building core theoretical and experimental/computational skills relevant to the global challenge theme, while courses taken in Semester 2 will build key research skills (in preparation for the extended project).