Possible topics for group projects Physics 245B winter 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I hope that you will come up with your own topic of interest. One source of inspirtion might be the daily listings on the arXiv. Here are some possibilities. (in no order) W and Z mass measurements top mass measurement SSB, PCAC, chiral symmetry, pions as Goldstone bosons Adler-Weisberger relation, Goldberger-Treiman relation, f_pi Standard model Higgs phenomenology Minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) SUSY mass limits Anomalies Neutrino mixing and masses CP violation CKM, unitarity, and beyond the standard model Custodial symmetry Helicity vs. chirality Effective field theory Photon as Goldstone boson Hierarchy problem Extra dimensions SO(10) model \Delta I = 1/2 rule Tree level high energy behavior construction of the standard model Baryon asymmetry of the universe Coleman-Weinberg model