Particle Physics in an Era of Data

该奖项资助加州大学伯克利分校的Lawrence Hall教授和Hitoshi Murayama教授的研究活动。这两位教员正在从事理论高能物理多方面的研究项目。凭借PI Murayama在开发数据和构建理论框架方面的丰富经验，以及co-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，他们旨在揭示从最小尺度的粒子和弦到最大尺度的宇宙的深层秘密。提议的范围包括对撞机物理学、暗物质、中微子、夸克味、现象学和超对称理论、观测宇宙学、场论、弦理论和多元宇宙。预计这项工作还将产生更广泛的重大影响。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。由于公众对基础问题非常感兴趣，伯克利理论小组还将与QuarkNet的老师合作，将前沿研究的兴奋带给高中生。通过村山的领导，与东京Kavli宇宙物理与数学研究所建立了牢固的联系，这也将为学生和博士后带来国际联系。

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.