Dr Rodolfo Russo Project Abstracts

Dr Rodolfo Russo Project Abstracts

BSc Abstracts

Kerr Black holes as particle accelerators
The project is based on the paper 0909.0169 by Banados, Silk and West who proposed that spinning black holes can act as particle accelerators of Planckian energy. As an introduction, Schwarzschild's and Kerr's black holes for standard 4D Einstein gravity are reviewed. Then the proposal by Banados et al. is analysed by studying the geodesics in the black hole metric metrics. Prerequisites: Physical Dynamics
Co-requisite: Spacetime  and Gravity

MSci Review Project Abstracts

Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics. 
The project focuses on the simple case of one dimensional theories and provides the basic concepts of what supersymmetry is. As an interesting application of the 1D theory analysed the so-called Witten index will be discussed. 
Prerequisite/Co-requisites: QMB and Physical Dynamics

MSci Research/Investigative Project Abstracts 

Conformal Field Theory
The aim of the project is to study the basic properties of field theories that are invariant under conformal transformations. Depending on the student interest either some applications to black hole physics or to critical phenomena will be discussed.
Prerequisite/Co-requisites: Physical Dynamics, Relativistic waves and Quantum fields, Functional methods in quantum field theories.
 

 

Juno Champion

The school holds Juno Champion status, the highest award of this IoP scheme to recognise and reward departments that can demonstrate they have taken action to address the under-representation of women in university physics and to encourage better practice for both women and men.