Electroweak Physics and New Dynamics at the LHC

该奖项资助圣母大学Ikaros Bigi、Antonio Delgado和Christopher Kolda教授的研究活动。大型强子对撞机正在以惊人的速度收集数据。这些数据很可能表明，有必要修改粒子物理学的标准模型，以适应新的粒子，甚至可能是新的相互作用。Bigi、Delgado和Kolda教授建议在奇异模型的框架内分析这种可能性，如超对称、强耦合希格斯扇区或额外维度。将对如何将新数据纳入新物理模型进行仔细研究。我们还将特别关注新物理学对导致风味对称性破坏的过程的影响——这种情况在标准模型中非常罕见，但仍然可以为粒子物理的新模型提供确凿的证据。预计该项目还将产生更广泛的重大影响。Bigi、Delgado和Kolda教授将继续在本科和研究生阶段教授物理学，在研究生物理暑期学校授课，在世界各地组织研讨会和会议，通过QuarkNet向高中教师和学生教授粒子物理学，使用新技术更好地为圣母大学的STEM专业学生提供建议和留住他们，并为STEM研究生在学术界的职业生涯做好准备。

This award funds the research activities of Professors Ikaros Bigi, Antonio Delgado, and Christopher Kolda at the University of Notre Dame.The LHC is now taking data at an impressive rate. This data is likely to demonstrate the need to modify the Standard Model of particle physics in order to accommodate new particles and perhaps even new interactions. Professors Bigi, Delgado, and Kolda propose to analyze this possibility within the framework of exotic models such as supersymmetry, strongly coupled Higgs sectors, or extra dimensions. A careful study of how the new data can be accommodated into models of new physics will be performed. Special attention will also be paid to the implications of new physics for processes that lead to a violation of flavor symmetries --- situations which are very rare in the Standard Model but which nevertheless can provide the smoking gun for a new model of particle physics.This project is also envisioned to have significant broader impacts. Professors Bigi, Delgado and Kolda will continue their activities teaching physics at the undergraduate and graduate levels, lecturing at graduate physics summer schools, organizing workshops and conferences around the world, teaching particle physics to high school teachers and students through QuarkNet, using new technologies to better advise and retain STEM majors at Notre Dame, and preparing STEM graduate students for careers in academia.