Research in High Energy Theoretical Physics

该项目通过使用高性能计算机模拟继续量子色动力学（强相互作用理论）的第一性原理研究。重点将放在使用改进的算法来提取最精确的值的关键数字在标准模型的基本相互作用在自然界。所获得的结果对于分析国家加速器实验室的实验测量和测试模型的内部一致性至关重要。它们可能会引出更多基本相互作用的线索。它们还将用于继续研究受限物质与夸克-胶子等离子体之间的高温相变以及等离子体中的奇异夸克含量。这样的相变发生在早期宇宙的演化中，并且被认为可以在RHIC加速器的重离子碰撞中实现，该加速器最近在布鲁克海文国家实验室开始运行。这些研究对于扩展我们对物质世界和宇宙起源的最基本基础的理解非常重要。算法思想可能在其他计算领域也有应用。

This project continues first principles studies of quantumchromodynamics (the theory of the strong interactions) through the useof high performance computer simulations. Emphasis is to be placed onusing improved algorithms to extract the most precise values to dateof key numbers in the Standard Model of the fundamental interactionsin Nature. Results to be obtained are essential for analyzingexperimental measurements at national accelerator laboratories and totest the internal consistency of the Model. They may lead to cluesabout more fundamental interactions. They will also be used tocontinue studies of the high temperature phase transition betweenconfined matter and the quark-gluon plasma and of the strange quarkcontent of the plasma. Such a phase transition occurred in theevolution of the early Universe and is thought to be achievable in thelaboratory in collisions of heavy ions at the RHIC accelerator, whichrecently began operation at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.These studies are important for extending our understanding of themost fundamental basis of our physical world and of the origins of ourUniverse. Algorithmic ideas are likely to have applications in othercomputational fields.