Final Exam

Logistics

• The Final Exam is open book and will be held during 9am-5pm on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th April 2013. All Final Exam solutions are due by 5:00PM on Tuesday 16th April. Late solutions will not be accepted.
• You must turn in your Final Exams via email as PDF scans of your handwritten solutions. (I do not want to see LaTeX because that could be authored by anyone.) Ensure that your handwriting is legible and clear. Do not use pencil unless it is 2B or darker; I prefer pen as it is easier to read. Crossouts are fine as long as they are clearly delineated.
• Day 1 of the Final Exam is to be carried out in your own office(/home), individually (i.e., no collaboration allowed). Each of you must write up a complete solution for your particular assigned Feynman diagram. I encourage you to hand in your Day 1 writeup on the Monday as soon as you have finished it.
• Day 2 of the Final Exam will be held in MP307. You will work together as a 12-person team to renormalize the Feynman diagrams needed for the one-loop QCD β-function. Each student must contribute significantly to the Day 2 team writeup. Be fair about dividing up the work.
• If you have questions about the exam, you can ask me directly. For most of the Monday and Tuesday I will be in my office MP1118. During lunchtimes I will be within 5-10 minutes of my office by bicycle with my alive cellphone on my belt. Call (416)561-0579 to summon me.

Grading Scheme

• You MUST explain your reasoning.
• You will be graded only on what you can communicate in writing in your solutions (your professor is not a telepath!). Err on the side of showing too many steps, not too few.
• You may use colour in your solutions to help organize algebra, etc. (I am not colourblind.)

Feynman Diagram Assignments

1. Lukas+Derek: gluon self-energy with 2 gluons in the loop
2. David: gluon self-energy with 1 gluon in the loop
3. Watse+Thomas: gluon self-energy with ghosts in the loop
4. Ashley+Aaron: gluon self-energy with quarks in the loop
5. Simon: fermion self-energy
6. Scott+Ian: vertex correction with two gluons and one fermion in the loop
7. Ciaran+Peter: vertex correction with two fermions and one gluon in the loop