Presidential Young Investigator Award: Theoretical Physics

研究将在理论基础上进行 粒子物理学 这项工作的范围将从研究， 接近实验的新理论的发展， 立即测试。 它将包括对超弦的研究 理论，它可以提供一个一致的，统一的描述， 重力和其他力量。 特别是，如何解决 在十个时空维度中运动的超弦， 正确描述观察到的四维世界，将是 探讨了 其他工作将涉及统一的 基本粒子的族，力的统一 以及量子场论中的各种主题。 这项研究将由乔纳森·巴格（Jonathan Bagger）进行， 他是一位很有前途的年轻物理学家， 1987年新总统青年调查员 这项工作是 对这片毫无疑问是一个前沿领域的 物理研究领域。

Research will be carried out in theoretical elementary particle physics. The work will range from studies which are close to experiment to development of new theories which may not be immediately testable. It will include research on superstring theories, which may provide a consistent, unified description of gravity and the other forces. In particular, the question of how superstrings, which move in ten space-time dimensions, can properly describe the observed four-dimensional world, will be explored. Other work will deal with the unification of the families of elementary particles, the unification of the forces of nature, and varied topics in quantum field theory. The research will be carried out by Jonathan Bagger, a very promising young physicist who has been selected to be one of the new Presidential Young Investigators for 1987. The work is of great importance and interest in what is certainly a frontier area of physics research.