Barrett, The Honors College Thesis/Creative Project Collection
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Barrett accepts high performing, academically engaged undergraduate students and works with them in collaboration with all of the other academic units at Arizona State University. All Barrett students complete a thesis or creative project which is an opportunity to explore an intellectual interest and produce an original piece of scholarly research. The thesis or creative project is supervised and defended in front of a faculty committee. Students are able to engage with professors who are nationally recognized in their fields and committed to working with honors students. Completing a Barrett thesis or creative project is an opportunity for undergraduate honors students to contribute to the ASU academic community in a meaningful way.
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- All Subjects: Magnetic Monopole
- Creators: Department of Physics
In a hypothetical Grand Unified Theory, magnetic monopoles are a particle which would act as a charge carrier for the magnetic force. Evidence of magnetic monopoles has yet to be found and based off of their relatively high mass (4-10 TeV) will be difficult to find with current technology. The goal of my thesis is to mathematically model the magnetic monopole by finding numerical solutions to the equations of motion. In my analysis, I consider four cases: kinks, cosmic strings, global monopoles, and magnetic monopoles. I will also study electromagnetic gauge fields to prepare to include gauge fields in the magnetic monopole case. Numerical solutions are found for the cosmic string and global monopole cases. As expected, the energy is high at small distance r and drops off as r goes to infinity. Currently numerical solutions are being worked towards for electromagnetic gauge fields and the magnetic monopole case.