Computer software for calculations in particle physics

物理学家们已经了解到，所有的物质和能量都可以由少量不同类型的基本粒子组合而成。描述这些粒子的理论是如此成功，以至于它被称为“标准模型”。然而，有一个问题：没有人能准确地解出预测粒子在实验中会做什么的方程。相反，必须进行近似，并且近似越准确，计算答案的难度越大。我的研究以不同寻常的方式使用计算机，以提高标准模型理论预测的准确性。然后，这些预测可以与实验数据进行比较，以便在最小的尺度上获得关于世界内部运行的新见解。

Physicists have learned that all matter and energy can be assembled from a small number of different types of fundamental particles.  The theory which describes these particles has been so successful that it has been dubbed the ``Standard Model''.  There is a catch, though: nobody can exactly solve the equations which predict what the particles will do in an experiment.  Instead, approximations have to be made, and the more accurate the approximation, the more difficult it is to calculate the answer.  My research uses computers in uncommon ways in order to improve the accuracy of the theoretical predictions of the Standard Model.  These predictions can then be compared with experimental data in order to gain new insights about the inner workings of the world at its smallest scales.