Particles, Strings and Gravity in Motion

运动中的粒子、弦和重力

• 批准号: 1214644
• 负责人: Petr Horava
• 金额: $ 141万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1214644&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Particles; Strings; Gravity; Motion

This grant funds the research activities of Professors Mina Aganagic, Raphael Bousso, Petr Horava, and Yasunori Nomura at the University of California, Berkeley. This project involves theoretical research at the crossroads of particle physics, quantum gravity, cosmology and string theory, with applications ranging from physics beyond the Standard Model to the multiverse approach in cosmology, the interface of string theory and condensed-matter physics, the nature of space and time in quantum gravity, and mathematical implications of topological strings. Professor Aganagic will investigate applications of string theory in gauge theories and mathematics; Professor Bousso will examine the challenges encountered when extracting predictions from the string multiverse, in particular the measure problem of eternal inflation; Professor Horava will continue to study quantum gravity with anisotropic scaling and its connections to string theory, particle phenomenology, the AdS/CFT correspondence, mathematics of the Ricci flow, and lattice gravity; and Professor Nomura will consider various issues in theoretical particle physics and cosmology relevant to experiments coming in the next decades --- in particular the LHC --- with emphasis on supersymmetry breaking and its mediation, the origin and nature of dark matter, and the conceptual understanding of the multiverse and its implications for TeV-scale physics.This project is also envisioned to have considerable broader impacts. These include the training of students and postdocs who will be involved in this research; dissemination of research results to the general public; involvement in QuarkNet; and participation in lecture series and summer schools that reach under-privileged communities.

这笔赠款资助加州大学伯克利分校 Mina Aganagic、Raphael Bousso、Petr Horava 和 Yasunori Nomura 教授的研究活动。该项目涉及粒子物理学、量子引力、宇宙学和弦理论交叉点的理论研究，应用范围从标准模型之外的物理学到宇宙学的多元宇宙方法、弦理论和凝聚态物理的接口、量子引力中空间和时间的本质以及拓扑弦的数学含义。 Aganagic 教授将研究弦理论在规范理论和数学中的应用； Bousso教授将研究从弦多元宇宙中提取预测时遇到的挑战，特别是永恒膨胀的测度问题； Horava 教授将继续研究具有各向异性标度的量子引力及其与弦理论、粒子现象学、AdS/CFT 对应、Ricci 流数学和晶格引力的联系； 野村教授将考虑与未来几十年（特别是大型强子对撞机）实验相关的理论粒子物理和宇宙学中的各种问题，重点是超对称破缺及其中介、暗物质的起源和性质、多元宇宙的概念理解及其对 TeV 尺度物理的影响。该项目还预计将产生相当广泛的影响。其中包括对参与这项研究的学生和博士后进行培训； 向公众传播研究成果； 参与 QuarkNet； 参与面向贫困社区的系列讲座和暑期学校。