Electroweak and Flavor Physics at Run-II of the LHC

该奖项资助了圣母大学的Ikaros Bigi、Antonio Delgado和Adam Martin教授的研究活动。在成功发现希格斯粒子后，大型强子对撞机（LHC）刚刚恢复了数据采集。 这些新数据可能表明，需要修改我们目前的粒子物理标准模型，以适应新的粒子，甚至新的相互作用。 比吉、德尔加多和马丁教授建议在奇异模型的框架内分析这种可能性，如超对称、强耦合希格斯扇区和额外的时空维度。 因此，这一领域的研究通过促进科学在其最基本的方向之一的进步来促进国家利益： 发现和理解新的物理定律。 该项目还将产生更广泛的影响，因为PI将参与本科和研究生阶段的物理教学，在研究生物理暑期学校讲课，在世界各地组织研讨会和会议，并通过QuarkNet在国内和国际上向高中教师和学生教授粒子物理学。将仔细研究如何将新数据纳入新物理模型中。 对撞机数据的模拟将运行，看看是否有任何过剩的大型强子对撞机报告可以解释在一个特定的模型。 德尔加多和马丁教授将尝试在标准技术无法发现新物理的情况下实施新的搜索策略。 Bigi教授将特别关注新物理学对导致违反风味的过程的影响。 这种情况在标准模型中非常罕见，但仍然可以为粒子物理学的新模型提供确凿的证据。

This award funds the research activities of Professors Ikaros Bigi, Antonio Delgado, and Adam Martin at the University of Notre Dame.After the successful discovery of the Higgs particle, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has just resumed taking data. This new data is likely to show the need to modify our current Standard Model of particle physics in order to accommodate new particles and perhaps even new interactions. Professors Bigi, Delgado, and Martin propose to analyze this possibility within the framework of exotic models such as supersymmetry, strongly coupled Higgs sectors, and extra spacetime dimensions. As a result, research in this area advances the national interest by promoting the progress of science in one of its most fundamental directions: the discovery and understanding of new physical law. This project is also envisioned to have significant broader impacts, as the PI's will engage in the teaching of physics at the undergraduate and graduate level, lecturing at graduate physics summer schools and organizing workshops and conferences around the world, and teaching particle physics to high-school teachers and students through QuarkNet, both nationally and internationally.More technically, a careful study of how the new data can be accommodated into models of new physics will be performed. Simulations of collider data will be run to see if any excesses reported by the LHC can be explained in one particular model. Professors Delgado and Martin will try to implement new search strategies for situations where standard techniques fail to discover new physics. Professor Bigi will pay special attention into the implications of new physics on processes that lead to violations of flavor. Such situations are very rare in the Standard Model but nonetheless can provide a smoking gun for new models of particle physics.