RUI: Particle Theory and the LHC

该奖项资助了威廉姆斯学院大卫·塔克-史密斯教授的研究活动。大型强子对撞机（LHC）已经在推动高能前沿方面取得了巨大进展。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奥的谜团，包括基本粒子质量的起源和暗物质的本质。在他的研究中，塔克-史密斯教授研究了粒子物理学标准模型的扩展，重点是了解如何在大型强子对撞机上测试这些理论。作为该项目的一部分，塔克-史密斯教授将研究解决费米实验室Tevatron令人惊讶的实验发展的模型-测量顶-反顶生产中异常大的前后不对称性。他还将研究大型强子对撞机现象学的理论，包括一种特殊类型的新力载体，结合暗物质新思想的理论，以及负责产生基本粒子质量的希格斯扇区与标准模型不同的理论。该项目还将产生更广泛的重大影响。本科生的参与是塔克-史密斯教授研究项目的核心部分。学生将有机会从事粒子物理研究，通过他们的工作，他们将学习到与粒子现象学和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.