Topic #1 : Neutrino mass, mixing and oscillations (Theory and/or Experiment)
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Term paper - Suggested Topics and preliminary assignments
Topic #1 : Neutrino mass, mixing and oscillations (Theory and/or Experiment)
Assigned to Tyler Glembo, Robert Poltis (Leptogenesis)
Useful Links and Literature:
Lecture by A. de Gouvea,
2004 TASI Lecture on Neutrino Physics
See also the following
list of literature.
Paper by B.Kayser on Neutrino Mass, Mixing, and Flavor Change
.
Review by S.M.Bilenky et al.,
Finally neutrino has mass
Some interesting papers on quark/lepton compositeness:
by E.Eichten et al. in
Phys.Rev.Lett.50:811-814,1983.
by H.Georgi et al.in Phys.Lett.B197:553,1987.
Topic #7 : Physics of extra dimensions
Assigned to Nebi Demez, Evan Halsted, Kris Brumbaugh
Useful Links and Literature:
Links on G.Landsberg's webpage.
Lecture by J.Lykken, Physics of Extra Dimensions, prepared for
Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics
(TASI 2000): Flavor Physics for the Millennium, Boulder, Colorado,
4-30 Jun 2000.
Paper by
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Gia Dvali on
The Hierarchy Problem and New Dimensions at a Millimeter.
Review by J.Hewett,
J.March-Rusell.
Topic #9 : LHC physics potential
Assigned to Kate Schmitter
Useful Links and Literature:
Overview
of prospects for Higgs physics at future colliders, see LHC links.
Review by P.Igo-Kemens.
Topic #10 : The Solar neutrino puzzle - the detection of solar neutrinos (Nobel prize 2002)
Assigned to James Burnette, Bi-Shing Shih
Useful Links and Literature:
Topic #11 : Measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon at Brookhaven (Experiment and comparison with theory)
Assigned to Rohit Singh
Useful links and literature:
Announcement of latest g-2 measurement
Paper by A.Czarnecki, W.Marciano, The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment: A Harbinger For "New Physics".
Topic #13 : CP violation
Assigned to Fatih Bulut, Daniel Bailey
Useful Links and Literature:
Article by H.Quinn in Physics Today,The Asymmetry between Matter and Antimatter.
Lecture by G.Buchalla,
Kaon and Charm Physics: Theory.
Lecture by A.Buras,
Flavour Dynamics: CP Violation and Rare Decays.
Topic #15 : Renormalization group equation and coupling constant unification
Assigned to Philip Cheung
Useful Links and Literature:
See discussion in Chapters 8,9 of Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions by Chris Quigg (on reserve).
Article by F.Wilczek, Quantum Field Theory (Section III).
Additional Topics:
Topic #2 : The Higgs-Kibble mechanism or How do the weak gauge bosons become massive ?
Assigned to
Useful links and literature:
Lecture by G.Altarelli, The Standard Electroweak Theory and Beyond.
Topic #3 : Precision tests of the Standard Model at the LEP/SLC colliders
Assigned to
Useful Links and Literature:
TASI Lecture on electroweak precision physics.
Topic #4 : QCD and asymptotic freedom (Nobel Prize 2004)
Assigned to
Useful Links and Literature:
A QCD primer by G.Altarelli.
Topic #5 : Supersymmetry: Motivation and searches
Assigned to
Useful Links and Literature:
Article in Scientific American, Sci.Am.287N1:70-77,2002,
by Jan Jolie, UNCOVERING SUPERSYMMETRY (see library).
Lecture
by S.Martin,A Supersymmetry Primer
Lectureby
M.Dress,An Introduction to Supersymmetry.
Lecture by H.Dreiner, Hide and Seek with Supersymmetry
Review by H.Haber, M.Schmitt.
TASI Lecture by G.Kane.
Topic #6 : How many lepton generations are there ?
Limits from high-energy experiments and cosmology
Assigned to
Useful Links and Literature:
TASI Lecture on electroweak precision physics.
The LEP Electroweak Working Group.
Review by
D.Karlen, The number of light neutrino types from collider experiments.
Article by
Kevork Abazajian,Telling Three from Four Neutrinos with Cosmology.
Article in Scientific American,Sci.Am.352N2:70-75,1991, by Gary Feldman (SLAC), Jack Steinberger (CERN), THE NUMBER OF FAMILIES OF MATTER: HOW EXPERIMENTS AT CERN AND SLAC, USING ELECTRON - POSITRON COLLISIONS, SHOWED THAT THERE ARE ONLY THREE FAMILIES OF FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLES IN THE UNIVERSE. (see library)
Topic #8 :
Search for the quark-gluon plasma at RHIC
Assigned to
Useful Links and Literature:
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Assigned to
Useful Links and Literature:
Overview
of prospects for Higgs physics at future colliders (useful links).
Review by P.Igo-Kemens.
Assigned to
Useful Links and Literature:
CPT Invariance Tests in Neutral Kaon Decay by P. Bloch.
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Topic #12 : Direct and indirect searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson
Topic #14 : Experimental tests of CPT invariance