Theory of Elementary Particles

该奖项资助加州大学伯克利分校的Lawrence Hall、Mary K Gaillard、Ori Ganor、Hitoshi Murayama和Bruno Zumino教授的研究活动。这五名教职员工正在进行理论高能物理的多方面研究计划。加诺教授从事更高维度的M理论、弦理论、超对称杨-米尔斯理论和场论的研究，他将在宇宙学中寻找弦理论和M理论的可能测试。盖拉德教授在量子水平上研究有效的超引力理论，重点是那些源自弱耦合杂化弦的理论。她将探索这些理论对对撞机物理和宇宙学的影响。霍尔教授将研究电弱对称破缺以及粒子物理学和宇宙学之间的联系所涉及的悬而未决的问题。例如，他将研究如何将膨胀和暗能量纳入基本理论。村山教授将研究电弱对称破缺背后的物理学。他还将研究地下物理，如中微子物理，暗物质和质子衰变的物理。最后，祖米诺教授研究了非对易量子场论和(超弦)理论的各个方面。他计划超越已知的数学技术，以发展规范理论的微分形式的形变量子化和(超级)弦场论的功能超星积。这项工作也被认为将产生重大的更广泛的影响。总体而言，这个研究小组为成为下一代科学家的学生和博士后提供培训。他们还通过女性PI促进多样性，并寻求和鼓励女学生和科学家的参与。由于广大公众对基本问题深有兴趣，伯克利理论小组还将与QuarkNet老师合作，为高中生带来前沿研究的兴奋。通过村山担任董事，与东京宇宙物理与数学研究所(IPMU)建立了密切的联系，这也将为学生和博士后带来国际联系。

This award funds the research activities of Professors Lawrence Hall, Mary K Gaillard, Ori Ganor, Hitoshi Murayama, and Bruno Zumino at the University of California, Berkeley.These five faculty members are pursuing a many-faceted program of research in theoretical high-energy physics. Professor Ganor conducts research in M-theory, string theory, supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories, and field theories in higher dimensions, and he will search for possible tests of string theory and M-theory in cosmology. Professor Gaillard studies effective supergravity theories at the quantum level, with an emphasis on those derived from the weakly coupled heterotic string. She will explore the implications of these theories for collider physics and cosmology. Professor Hall will study unsolved issues involved in electroweak symmetry breaking, and connections between particle physics and cosmology. For example, he will study how inflation and dark energy can be incorporated into fundamental theories. Professor Murayama will study the physics behind the electroweak symmetry breaking. He will also study underground physics such as neutrino physics and the physics of dark matter and proton decay. Finally, Professor Zumino studies various aspects of non-commutative quantum field theories and (super)string theories. He plans to go beyond the known mathematical techniques in order to develop a deformation quantization of differential forms for gauge theories and a functional super-star product for (super)string field theory.This work is also envisioned to have significant broader impacts. Collectively, this research group provides training to students and postdocs who become the next generation of scientists. They also promote diversity through a female PI, and they seek and encourage participation by women students and scientists. Because the general public is deeply interested in fundamental questions, the Berkeley theory group will also work with QuarkNet teachers to bring the excitement of forefront research to high-school students. Strong ties to the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) in Tokyo through Murayama's directorship will also bring international connections to students and postdocs.