Final Project
The final project will consist of:
- Choose a topic after discussion with me by March 8.
- A written report of at most 8 pages in length, single column,
reasonable font size.
(Please please use some form of LaTeX to write your report if you possibly can!)
- A 5 minute presentation (blackboard or slides) plus 2 minutes of questions.
- Your participation in the presentations of the others in the class.
Reports are due on April 11 by midnight.
Presentations will be on April 16 at 9:30am.
I will make copies of the reports and distribute them to the rest
of the class to go along with the presentations.
Topics
This list of topics is not exhaustive and if you have an idea of your own that is related to material in the course,
please feel free to speak to me about it. Whichever topic you choose, it should not be
something you work on directly
as part of your thesis research.
Some of these topics may be covered partially in class, and in this case
you should
expand upon what was gone over. Please make sure to check
your topic with me before you begin. There will be
one person per topic, and they will be distributed on a first-come
first-served basis.
- Lattice Field Theory and QCD
- Axions and the Strong CP Problem
- Supersymmetry at the LHC
- Searches for Dark Photons
- Dark Matter Freezeout
- Grand Unification and Proton Decay
- Feynman Rules for Low-Energy Gravity
- Low-Energy Tests of the SM
- Measurements of Flavour Mixing and CP Violation
- QCD at High Energies: Jets, Showering, and Hadronization
- Atomic Parity Violation
- Dark Matter Direct Detection
- Monte Carlo Simulations of Collider Physics
- The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon
- Neutrino Oscillations and Masses
- ...