CAREER: Particle Phenomenology at the LHC Era

该职业奖资助威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校路易斯·安克雷多基教授的研究活动。经过近二十年的规划和建设，大型强子对撞机（LHC）现在是世界上能量最高的粒子对撞机。来自大型强子对撞机的数据很可能会为下一代粒子物理学家提供一个新的标准模型，描述物质的基本组成部分以及它们在更高能量尺度上的相互作用。在他的研究中，安克雷多基教授的目标是开发出一种方法，通过这种方法，可以在大型强子对撞机上测试超出标准模型的某一类新理论。在这类新理论中，标准模型中无数的粒子类型被一个单一的基本构件——“弦”所取代。安克雷多基工作的一个关键组成部分是探索与大型强子对撞机新物理实验搜索相关的弦共振的各种特性。他还参与了宇宙学和天体物理学的互补观测，这有助于他寻找弦理论的确凿证据，并有助于解开宇宙中看不见的维度的奥秘。预计该项目还将产生更广泛的重大影响。安克雷多基教授将让研究生和博士后参与他的研究，从而为刚开始在这一领域进行研究的初级物理学家提供关键的培训。他还打算就他的研究成果进行公开演讲，并根据LHC的研究成果开发新的课程。

This CAREER award funds the research activities of Professor Luis Anchordoqui at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.After nearly twenty years of planning and construction, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now the highest-energy particle collider in the world. Data from the LHC is likely to lead to nothing less than a new Standard Model for the next generation of particle physicists, describing the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions at an even higher energy scale. In his research, Professor Anchordoqui aims to develop methods by which a certain class of new theories beyond the Standard Model might be tested at the LHC. This class of new theories includes those in which the myriad of particle types in the Standard Model is replaced by a single fundamental building block: a "string." One critical component of Anchordoqui's work is to explore the various properties of string resonances related to experimental searches for new physics at the LHC. He is also involved in complementary cosmological and astrophysical observations, which aid his search for string theory's smoking gun and help unravel the mysteries of the Universe's unseen dimensions.This project is also envisioned to have significant broader impacts. Professor Anchordoqui will involve graduate students and postdocs in his research, and thereby provide critical training to junior physicists beginning research in this field. He also intends to give public lectures on his research results and develop new course curricula based on results from the LHC.