mini-Projects

presentations

  • summarize key physics points in reading.

  • 20 min presentation

    • 5-10 slides: demonstrating an intro. for basic theory / method, and the key results
    • numerical demonstration: in the form of a problem set (of course you need to solve it!)

  • numerical codes

topics

Choose one topic from below or form your own! Here are some suggestions (and guiding questions)

  • Animating EM waves from time-varying charge distribution.

    • Compute the time-dependent E and B fields from a charge distribution. Draw the field lines.
    • Accelerates the charge distribution and show simulate how EM waves are formed.
    • Why sky is blue and the $\omega^4$ dependence.
    • Dispersive medium, linear response and all that.

  • Understanding resonances.

    • resonances
    • kinematics
    • how (intermediate) resonances show up in a Dalitz plot.
    • how dynamics are affecting the distributions.
    • coupled-channel models.

  • Path Integral for dissipative system.

    • Rosenfelder
    • Chow & Buice
    • study the damped oscillator problem.
    • dissipative Quantum System.
    • extracting the density of states.
    • moment generating functionals.

  • Simulation of non-abelian gauge theory.

    • study the SU(2) or SU(3) gauge groups (or beyond!)
    • write numerical code to extract observables.
    • study the Polyakov loop (and its susceptibility)
    • effective model description
    • ref1

  • Modeling of the QCD phase diagram.

    • NJL model VS the bag model.
    • Confinement of quarks VS Confinement of gluons.
    • Cluster / virial expansion: a symbolic computation.
    • 3rd and 4th virial coefficients in a potential model.
    • phase space models for dense matter.