Theories of Matter, Energy, Space and Time

本提案旨在解决弦论、宇宙学和场论交叉领域面临的几个核心问题。该小组将运用新的有效的场理论和模型构建技术，并研究这些新思想的现象学。许多研究都围绕着额外维度的理论，并涉及到将弦理论与宇宙学联系起来。重夸克有效理论将用于理解D和B介子的现象学，以及理解标准模型之外的物理。重点将是在TeV尺度上解开新物理学的纠缠，以及它如何与标准模型的各种推广相关联。该提案希望解决的问题是，与不同理论观点相关的强大信号是什么？不同的实验有哪些机会？怎样才能最好地区分理论情景？

This proposal intends to tackle several of the central problems facing the intersection of String theory, Cosmology and Field Theory. The group will apply new effective field theory and model-building techniques and study the phenomenology of these new ideas.. Many of the investigations center around theories with extra dimensions and involve relating String theory to cosmology. Heavy Quark effective theories will be used to understand the phenomenology of D and B mesons and understand physics beyond the standard model. Emphasis will be on disentangling new physics at the TeV scale and how it relates to various generalizations of the Standard Model.The questions this proposal hopes to address are what are the robust signals connected with different theoretical ideas? What windows of opportunities exist for the different experiments? How can theoretical scenarios be best distinguished?