Elementary Particle Theory

将在理论高能物理的两个领域进行研究：现象学和基础理论。第一个是关于一系列正在进行的实验的理论预测(基于一种新的自然对称性：超对称性)，以发现粒子如何相互作用的新原理。其中包括测试质子是否稳定或是否衰变成更轻的粒子，探测宇宙暗物质，其组成尚不清楚，但据信占宇宙物质的90%以上。这项研究令人兴奋，因为这些实验中的任何一项都可能彻底改变我们对粒子理论的理解。第二个领域涉及超弦理论，这是一种将包括引力在内的所有自然力统一到一个理论中的努力。这里的研究涉及11维M理论(其中7维被压缩成非常小的体积)，以解决黑洞物理、超膜量子理论等悬而未决的问题。这项研究旨在发现一种令人兴奋的新的全粒子物理理论的可能性。

Research will be performed in two areas of theoretical high energy physics: phenomenology and fundamental theory. The first is concerned with theoretical predictions (based on a new symmetry of nature: supersymmetry) of an array of ongoing experiments to discover new principles of how particles interact. These include testing of whether the proton is stable or whether it decays into lighter particles, detection of cosmological dark matter whose composition is as yet unknown but is believed to make up more than 90% of the matter of the universe, etc. This research is exciting in that any of these experiments could revolutionize our understanding of particle theory. The second area is concerned with superstring theory, an effort to unify all the forces of nature including gravity into a single theory. Research here is concerned with 11 dimensional M-theory (of which 7 dimensions are compactified into a very small volume)to resolve outstanding problems of black hole physics, the quantum theory of supermembranes, etc. This research aims at the exciting possibility of the discovery of a fundamental new theory of all particle physics.