Investigations in Elementary Particle Physics

理论基本粒子物理学的研究将包括研究核子的角动量如何在核子的组成部分之间分配，分析轻希格斯粒子的可能信号（它的发现将提供关于质量起源的重要信息），研究夸克在核子内的限制背后的物理学，以及对电子磁偶极矩的精确计算。最近的数据使核子的角动量在其组成部分之间的共享变得非常令人困惑。在我们试图理解基本粒子的过程中，有关质量的起源或夸克的约束的问题是至关重要的。

Research in theoretical elementary particle physics will include studies of the manner in which the angular momentum of a nucleon is divided among the constituents of the nucleon, analyses of possible signals of a light Higgs particle (whose discovery would provide important information on the origin of mass), investigations of the physics behind the confinement of quarks within nucleons, and an extremely precise calculation of the magnetic dipole moment of an electron. The sharing of the angular momentum of a nucleon among its constituents has been made very puzzling by recent data. Questions relating to the origin of mass or the confinement of quarks are of central importance in our attempt to understand the elementary particles.