Literature review supervised by Dr. Jenni Adams at the University of Canterbury.

I wanted to learn more about particle physics after my Bachelor’s, so a year of part-time study culminated in this literature review. I learned basic classical (and a little quantum) field theory, and read about the “strong \(CP\) problem” of quantum chromodynamics and its solution via “axions”. The report is aimed at the mathematically-inclined graduate who is uninitiated in particle physics.

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