Particle Physics and Cosmology: Theory Meets Data

该基金支持约翰霍普金斯大学的Jonathan Bagger、David E. Kaplan、Marc Kamionkowski和Kirill Melnikov教授的研究活动。约翰霍普金斯理论小组的兴趣涉及现代理论高能物理学和宇宙学的大多数主导领域。在本项目中，理论小组旨在解决粒子物理和宇宙学中理论与实验结合的核心问题。它计划推进宇宙学观测和粒子物理搜索的新思路，开发和利用新的计算工具，将新物理学与标准模型背景区分开来，并提出新的机制和模型，最终可能有助于自然规律的大综合。预计该项目还将产生更广泛的重大影响。这项建议的研究将为研究生和博士后提供一个训练基地。霍普金斯大学的研究小组还计划继续他们的工作，传播物理学研究成果，以吸引年轻学生进入STEM职业。巴格与马里兰科学中心合作制作了一个天文馆展览，已经有来自四个国家的8.5万多人观看了这个展览，他计划继续他在这个方向的活动。卡普兰在国家地理频道联合主持了一季的“已知宇宙”节目；他还计划继续制作一部长篇纪录片，以记录大型强子对撞机的启动、启动和首次重要数据的发布。所有四个PI还计划继续与霍普金斯夸克网项目合作，旨在将巴尔的摩高中教师和学生与从事尖端研究的物理学家联系起来。

This grant supports the research activities of Professors Jonathan Bagger, David E. Kaplan, Marc Kamionkowski, and Kirill Melnikov at Johns Hopkins University.The interests of the Johns Hopkins theory group touch on most of the dominant areas in modern theoretical high-energy physics and cosmology. In this project, the theory group aims to tackle central problems at the juncture of theory and experiment in particle physics and cosmology. It plans to advance new ideas for cosmological observations and particle physics searches, develop and exploit new calculational tools needed to discriminate new physics from Standard Model backgrounds, and propose new mechanisms and models that may ultimately help in the grand synthesis of nature's laws. This project is also envisioned to have significant broader impacts. This proposed research will provide a training ground for graduate students and postdocs. The Hopkins group also plans to continue their work disseminating the results of physics research in order to attract young students into STEM careers. Bagger has produced a planetarium show in collaboration with the Maryland Science Center that has been viewed by over 85,000 people in four countries, and plans to continue his activities in this direction. Kaplan co-hosted a season of the "Known Universe" on the National Geographic Channel; he also plans to continue creating a feature-length documentary to capture the ramp-up, start-up, and first significant data release of the LHC. All four PI's also plan to continue working with the Hopkins QuarkNet program, aimed at connecting Baltimore high school teachers and students with physicists engaged in cutting-edge research.