RUI: Particle Theory and the LHC

该奖项资助了威廉姆斯大学的戴维·塔克-史密斯教授的研究活动。大型强子对撞机(LHC)已经取得了巨大的进展，推动了高能前沿的发展。在接下来的几年里，大型强子对撞机将继续探索粒子物理学中一些最深层次的谜团，包括基本粒子质量的起源和暗物质的性质。在他的研究中，塔克-史密斯教授研究了粒子物理标准模型的扩展，重点是了解这些理论如何在大型强子对撞机上进行测试。作为该项目的一部分，塔克-史密斯教授将研究模型，这些模型解决了费米实验室Tevatron的一项令人惊讶的实验发展-测量了顶-反顶生产中异常大的向前-向后不对称。他还将研究大型强子对撞机的现象学理论，其中包含了暗物质的新概念的理论，以及希格斯扇区不同于标准模型的理论。希格斯扇区是负责产生基本粒子质量的模型的一部分。这个项目也将产生显著的更广泛的影响。本科生参与是塔克-史密斯教授研究计划的核心部分。学生将有机会从事粒子物理研究，通过他们的工作，他们将学习与粒子现象学和一般理论物理有关的重要思想、方法和结果。

This award funds the research activities of Professor David Tucker-Smith at Williams College.The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has already made enormous progress pushing forward the high energy frontier. During the coming years, the LHC will continue to probe some of the deepest mysteries in particle physics, including the origin of elementary particle masses and the nature of dark matter. In his research, Professor Tucker-Smith studies extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics, with an emphasis on understanding how these theories can be tested at the LHC. As part of this project, Professor Tucker-Smith will study models that address a surprising experimental development from the Tevatron at Fermilab --- measurements of an anomalously large forward-backward asymmetry in top-antitop production. He will also study the LHC phenomenology of theories with a particular type of new force carrier, theories incorporating new ideas for dark matter, and theories in which the Higgs sector, the part of the model responsible for generating the masses of the elementary particles, differs from that of the Standard Model.This project will also have signficant broader impacts. Undergraduate involvement is a central part of the Professor Tucker-Smith's research program. Students will have the opportunity to engage in particle physics research, and through their work they will learn important ideas, methods, and results relating to particle phenomenology and to theoretical physics in general.