Presidential Young Investigator Award: Theoretical Physics

基本粒子物理学的理论研究将处理产生基本粒子质量的对称性破缺，特别是这种对称性破缺是被称为“彩色”的物理学的结果的可能性。这项工作将是一个项目的一部分，该项目旨在克服彩色技术的技术问题，并确定其实验结果。这项研究将由1990年的一位新总统青年研究员完成，它是对质量生成对称破缺的更直接模型的重要替代方案的探索。

Theoretical research in elementary particle physics will deal with the symmetry breaking which gives rise to elementary particle masses, and especially with the possibility that this symmetry breaking is a result of the physics known as "Technicolor". This work will be part of a program which seeks to overcome the technical problems of technicolor and to determine its experimental consequences. The research, to be done by one of the new Presidential Young Investigators for 1990, is an exploration of an important alternative to the somewhat more straightforward models of mass-generating symmetry breaking.