Theoretical Physics

该奖项资助石溪大学的Maria C. Gonzalez-Garcia、Christopher P. Herzog、Patrick Meade、Leonardo Rastelli、Martin Rocek、Robert Shrock、Warren Siegel和George Sterman教授的研究活动。随着新技术和新能力的发展，物理学不断发展，以理解自然世界。该奖项支持理论物理学中广泛而又深入相关的一系列主题的研究，通过推动美国的基础科学进步，参与这些知识前沿的研究符合国家利益。研究将包括对基本粒子的高能碰撞的分析，这将探索物质宇宙赖以存在的基本定律，并提出涉及基本粒子和原子核的新实验的建议。这些学科与引力、空间和时间的深奥奥秘密切相关，也与自然界中所有已知的力之间存在联系的可能性密切相关，可能将引力本身与在电现象、放射性和核物理学中看到的力统一起来。粒子物理学和核物理学的理论方法也被发现在化学化合物和具有不寻常性质的金属上有令人兴奋的应用，比如超导性。新的理论方法，有时依赖于现代计算能力，使以前被认为难以捉摸的固体和液体的性质的可靠预测成为可能。这项研究提高了我们对自然规律的认识，有助于更好地理解物理宇宙，包括实用材料，对我们的世界观产生了重大而广泛的影响和影响。事实上，许多资深参与者正在研究的主题经常在媒体上讨论，包括希格斯玻色子、黑洞、中微子在宇宙中的作用、弦理论、夸克-胶子等离子体和量子纠缠。在该奖项下进行的研究还将用于培养最高水平的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。个别成员也将继续他们自己的外联活动，其中包括在高中研究指导和组织科学剧本创作比赛方面的成功传统。在技术层面，该奖项将支持广泛的理论物理学研究，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，粒子物理学的理论和实验的参与得到了加强。这些关于我们宇宙的新信息来源使理论学家能够根据不断发展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，如对偶和共形自举的应用，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现象学、量子色动力学、中微子和天体粒子物理学、规范引力对偶性的应用、共形场论、标准模型的扩展、电弱对称破缺、超弦和超对称规范理论的几何方面的工作。这项研究还将有助于培养新一代的博士后和研究生水平的理论家。

This award funds the research activities of Professors Maria C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Christopher P. Herzog, Patrick Meade, Leonardo Rastelli, Martin Rocek, Robert Shrock, Warren Siegel and George Sterman at Stony Brook University.Physics is constantly evolving as new techniques and capabilities are developed to understand the natural world. This award supports research in a broad but deeply related set of topics in Theoretical Physics, and engagement at each of these frontiers of knowledge serves the national interest by advancing fundamental scientific progress in the United States. Investigations will include the analysis of high-energy collisions of elementary particles, which probe the fundamental laws upon which the material universe is based, and proposals for new experiments involving elementary particles and atomic nuclei. These subjects are closely related to the deep mysteries of gravity, space and time, and the possibility that all of the known forces in nature are related, possibly unifying gravity itself with the forces that are seen in electrical phenomena, in radioactivity, and in nuclear physics. The theoretical methods developed in particle and nuclear physics have also been found to have exciting applications to chemical compounds and metals with unusual properties, like superconductivity. New theoretical methods, sometimes relying on modern computational capabilities, are making possible reliable predictions for the properties of solids and liquids that were previously thought intractable. This research, by advancing our knowledge of the laws of nature and by contributing to a better understanding of the physical universe, including practical materials, 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, including the Higgs boson, black holes, the role of neutrinos in the Universe, string theory, the quark-gluon plasma, and quantum entanglement. The research carried out under this award will also serve in the training of graduate students and mentoring of postdoctoral fellows at the highest levels. 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. Individual members will also continue their own outreach activities, which have included successful traditions in high-school research mentoring and in the organization of science playwriting competitions. At the technical level, this award will support research over a wide range of theoretical physics, largely based on quantum field theory and string theory. Recent years have seen a strengthening engagement of theory and experiment in particle physics, with new and exciting data from the Large Hadron Collider, from neutrino observatories and cosmic ray satellites. These new sources of information concerning 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, such as applications of duality and the conformal bootstrap, 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 phenomenology, quantum chromodynamics, in neutrino and astroparticle physics, in applications of gauge-gravity duality, conformal field theory, extensions of the Standard Model, electroweak symmetry breaking, superstrings, and the geometry of supersymmetric gauge theories. This research will also help train a new generation of theorists at the postdoctoral and graduate levels.