Particle Physics in an Era of Data

数据时代的粒子物理

• 批准号: 1316783
• 负责人: Hitoshi Murayama
• 金额: $ 66万
• 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: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-11-15 至 2017-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1316783&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Particle; Physics; Era; Data

This award funds the research activities of Professors Lawrence Hall and Hitoshi Murayama at the University of California, Berkeley.These two faculty members are pursuing a multi-faceted program of research in theoretical high-energy physics. With the deep experience of PI Murayama on exploiting data and building theoretical frameworks, and the inventiveness of co-PI Hall in opening up new landscapes of physics models beyond the standard model, they aim at uncovering deep secrets that span from the smallest scales of particles and strings to the largest scales of the Universe. The proposed scope includes collider physics, dark matter, neutrinos, quark flavor, phenomenology and theory of supersymmetry, observational cosmology, field theory, string theory, and the multiverse.This work is also envisioned to have significant broader impacts. Collectively, this research group provides training to students and postdocs who become the next generation of scientists. They also promote diversity by seeking and encouraging participation by women students and scientists. Because the general public is deeply interested in fundamental questions, the Berkeley theory group will also work with QuarkNet teachers to bring the excitement of forefront research to high-school students. Strong ties to the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Tokyo through Murayama's directorship will also bring international connections to students and postdocs.

该奖项资助了加州大学伯克利分校的劳伦斯·霍尔教授和村山仁教授的研究活动。这两位教授正在进行理论高能物理学的多方面研究计划。凭借PI Murayama在利用数据和构建理论框架方面的丰富经验，以及共同PI Hall在开辟标准模型之外的物理模型新景观方面的创造性，他们的目标是揭示从粒子和弦的最小尺度到宇宙的最大尺度的深层秘密。拟议的范围包括对撞机物理学、暗物质、中微子、夸克味、超对称现象学和理论、观测宇宙学、场论、弦理论和多元宇宙。这项工作也被设想为具有重大的更广泛的影响。总的来说，这个研究小组为成为下一代科学家的学生和博士后提供培训。它们还通过寻求和鼓励女学生和女科学家的参与来促进多样性。由于公众对基本问题非常感兴趣，伯克利理论小组还将与QuarkNet教师合作，为高中生带来前沿研究的兴奋。通过村山的董事职位，与东京Kavli宇宙物理和数学研究所的紧密联系也将为学生和博士后带来国际联系。