Theoretical Physics

该奖项资助石溪大学的Maria C. Gonzalez-Garcia、Christopher P. Herzog、Leonardo Rastelli、Martin Rocek、Robert Shrock、Warren Siegel和George Sterman教授的研究活动。这些研究活动涉及理论物理的广泛主题，主要基于量子场论和弦理论。近年来，随着大型强子对撞机（Large Hadron Collider）、中微子天文台（neutrino observatory）和宇宙射线卫星（cosmic ray satellite）提供的令人兴奋的新数据，粒子物理学理论与实验的结合出现了复兴。这些关于宇宙的新信息来源使理论学家能够根据不断变化的数据检验长期存在的观点，并开发新的理论方法来指导实验。与此同时，量子场和弦理论的新应用在粒子物理内外得到了发展，为核物理、凝聚态物理和量子信息的研究开辟了意想不到的途径，有时在纯数学中也有应用。作为这些历史性发展的积极参与者，该奖项的高级人员将继续并发展他们在高能对撞机物理学、中微子和天体粒子物理学、规范引力对偶性的应用、标准模型的扩展、电弱对称破缺、轻生、超弦、超对称规范理论的几何以及强相互作用理论方面的工作。通过提高我们对自然规律的认识，通过促进对物理宇宙的更好理解，这项研究对我们的世界观具有重要的更广泛的影响和启示。事实上，许多资深参与者正在研究的课题经常在媒体上被讨论，比如希格斯玻色子的发现、中微子在宇宙中的作用、弦理论和夸克-胶子等离子体。本提案中概述的研究也将用于培养研究生和指导博士后。该提案的教师与研究生一起进行研究，并在课堂内外与本科生和社区成员分享他们的经验和专业知识。

This award funds the research activities of Professors Maria C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Christopher P. Herzog, Leonardo Rastelli, Martin Rocek, Robert Shrock, Warren Siegel and George Sterman at Stony Brook University.These research activities span a wide range of topics in theoretical physics, largely based on quantum field theory and string theory. Recent years have seen a renaissance of engagement between theory and experiment in particle physics, with new and exciting data from the Large Hadron Collider, from neutrino observatories and from cosmic ray satellites. These new sources of information about our universe enable theorists to test long-standing ideas against evolving data, and to develop new theoretical methods to guide experiment. At the same time, novel applications of quantum field and string theory have been developed in and beyond particle physics, opening unexpected avenues of research into nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, and quantum information, sometimes with applications in pure mathematics. As active participants in these historic developments, the senior personnel of this award will continue and develop their work in high energy collider physics, neutrino and astroparticle physics, applications of gauge-gravity duality, extensions of the Standard Model, electroweak symmetry breaking, leptogenesis, superstrings, the geometry of supersymmetric gauge theories, and the theory of the strong interactions. By advancing our knowledge of the laws of nature and by contributing to a better understanding of the physical universe, this research has significant broader impacts and implications for our world view. Indeed, many of the topics under study by the senior participants are frequently discussed in the media, such as the discovery of the Higgs boson, the role of neutrinos in the Universe, string theory and the quark-gluon plasma. The research outlined in this proposal will also serve in the training of graduate students and mentoring of postdoctoral fellows. The faculty on this proposal conduct their research with graduate students, and share their experience and expertise with undergraduates and community members, in and beyond the classroom.