Theoretical Physics

理论基本粒子物理学的研究将集中于核物质在极端环境下的特性，如高温或高密度。在这些情况下，在接近大核内部的常规物质和可能存在超流动性、超导性和由核物质组成的非限制夸克和胶子组成的等离子体的新的、高度奇异的大尺度物质状态之间，相变是预期的。计算机模拟以及基于对称理论的精确解析方法将被用来寻找这些新现象。这些研究很重要，因为它们可能告诉我们早期宇宙的情况。

Research in theoretical elementary particle physics will focus on theproperties of nuclear matter in extreme environments, such as hightemperatures or high density. Phase transitions are expected in thesesituations between conventional matter approximating the interior of alarge nucleus and new, highly exotic large-scale states of matter in whichthere may be superfluidity, superconductivity and plasmas of unconfinedquarks and gluons, the constituents of nuclear matter. Computersimulations as well as precise, analytic methods based on the theory ofsymmetries, will be employed to search for these new phenomena. Thesestudies are important because they may tell us about conditions in theearly universe.