The termpaper will count towards 25% of your grade.

Aim: Present information of current interest from the literature,
and demonstrate that you understand its implications.

Length: Around 10-15 pages long, including necessary equations and figures, and ALL references.

The 25% grade will be awarded based on 
(a) overall organisation and presentation of the paper
(b) coverage of the content (i.e. the breadth of material)
(c) clarity of presenting the content
(d) extracting meaning of content (i.e. showing your own understanding).
(Points (b) (c) will be considered together, since too much breadth
will naturally impact how clear any of the descriptions are.)

The termpaper is NOT being graded on the polish of your language - this is NOT an ENGLISH exam.

DUE DATES:
September 10:  A one-page write-up of your termpaper is due.
	       Prepare a one-page outline of your term paper with a list of references and submit this to me. You will get
               feedback on this outline from me. The outline can be in the form of bullet points, or section headings etc.
               The outline needs to be typed up (i.e. not handwritten). Email-submission is not allowed for the outline; I
               need a printout.

November 7 :   The final termpapers are due by noon SHARP. Email-submission is fine.

These deadlines are non-negotiable. You are encouraged to not wait till the last moment to submit. 

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You may choose your own topic, or pick from a list I give. At most,
one topic can be chosen by 2 groups.

Help:  Me. You can also discuss with few PhD students in the Physics department who have kindly agreed to act as
       sounding boards. The students (email) are :
       For "experimental" topics: Prachurjya Hazarika (prachurjya.hazarika@students), Riya Sharma (riya.sharma@students)
       For "theoretical" topics: Dhruva K S (k.s.dhruva@students), Supritha Bhowmick (supritha.bhowmick@students)

You are also encouraged to see me regularly during office hours to discuss any questions/issues/problems you have 
regarding the termpaper or other material related to the course.

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Needless to say,
(a) the term paper is an individual effort
(b) the use of LLMs (such as ChatGPT, scispace) is not allowed.
    We are training to be thinkers here... outsourcing our thinking is a no-go.

    If I suspect either of these conditions is breached, I will conduct a viva on the day you
    submit the termpaper, and give you a ZERO if I am not convinced that you put in work.

    If however you do well in the term paper, I am happy to write a recommendation letter for 
    you based on the efforts you put in.

    So weigh your choices well.

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Note one topic can only by chosen by two people. 

Please email me your termpaper choice at sdube AT iiserpune.ac.in  (include your roll number in the email)

Some possible termpaper topics to choose are (you may think up your own topic):

[n]  chosen by n students right now.

1. Measurement of neutrino masses
2. Motivation for Extra Dimension theories
3. Test of conservation laws
4. Electroweak model and constraints on new physics
[1]    5. Principles of linear and circular colliders
   	      [2]    6. Indirect and direct detection of dark matter
7. Neutrinoless double-beta decay and neutrino mass
8. Review of long-lived particle searches
[1]    9. IceCube and Antares experiments
10. The top quark
[1]   11. Measuring the neutrino oscillation parameters
12. Goals and results of the RHIC experiment
13. Discovery of the Higgs boson
[1]   14. Astroparticle physics and the GZK cutoff
15. Principles of nuclear reactors
16. The Eightfold way
17. The role of group theory in particle physics
18. Multivariate techniques in EHEP
19. A review of the ALICE detector
20. A review of the LHCb detector
21. A review of the CMS detector
22. A review of the ATLAS detector
23. A review of the Belle experiment
24. Motivations and challenges of FCC-ee
25. The case for a muon collider	    
26. Anomalous muon magnetic moment
27. B-meson mixing
28. Discovery of the b-quark, and how we find it today
[1]   29. Modelling the passage of particles through matter
30. Electroweak symmetry breaking and the W/Z bosons
31. Detection and properties of the top quark
32. The ITER experiment: fusion vs fission energy sources
33. Tetraquark and Pentaquark discoveries
[1]   34. CP violation history and future
35. Principles and results from Kamiokande and Gallex
36. Problems with constraining supersymmetry
37. Discovery of W,Z bosons
[1]   38. Principles of radiation detectors
39. Neutrino oscillations (theory and experimental evidence)
40. Neutrino: Dirac or Majorana