Final Project
The final project will consist of:
- Choose a topic after discussion with me by March 1.
- A written report of at most 8 pages in length, single column,
reasonable font size.
Your target audience should be others in the class.
(Please please use some form of LaTeX to write your report if you possibly can!)
- A 10 minute presentation (via zoom with slides) plus 2 minutes of questions.
- Your participation in the presentations of the others in the class.
Reports are due on Monday, April 15 by 9:00am.
Presentations will be on Wednesday, April 17 at 9:30am.
Reports will be posted here to go along with the presentations.
Talk Schedule, Wednesday, April 17, 9:30am
- AO, Sterile Neutrinos (and More)
- CM, Grand Unification and Proton Decay
- DC, Dark Matter Direct Detection
- EK, Charged Lepton Flavour Violation
- HJ, Jet Identification at Colliders
- JC, Supersymmetry at Colliders
- JZ, Measurements of Flavour Mixing and CP Violation
- KL, Higgs Potential and Multi-Higgs Production
- RQ, Neutrino Oscillations and Masses
- SR, Axions and the Strong CP Problem
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. You are expected to consult and survey
original literature, notes, and textbooks.
However, your final report should be written in your own words,
you should cite
your sources, and any direct quotations should be
labelled as such.
- Dark Matter Direct Detection (DC)
- Axions and the Strong CP Problem (SR)
- Sterile Neutrinos (AO)
- Supersymmetry at Colliders (JC)
- Charged Lepton Flavour Violation (EK)
- Neutrino Oscillations and Masses (RQ)
- Measurements of Flavour Mixing and CP Violation (JZ)
- Grand Unification and Proton Decay (CM)
- Lattice Field Theory and QCD
- Searches for Dark Photons
- Dark Matter Freezeout
- Feynman Rules for Low-Energy Gravity
- Low-Energy Tests of the SM
- QCD at High Energies: Jets, Showering, and Hadronization
- Atomic Parity Violation
- Monte Carlo Simulations of Collider Physics
- The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon
- ...