Presidential Young Investigator Award: Theoretical Physics

将在理论基本粒子物理学方面进行研究。这项工作的范围将从接近实验的研究到新理论的发展，这些理论可能不会立即得到检验。它将包括对超弦理论的研究，这可能会提供对引力和其他力的一致、统一的描述。特别是，在十个时空维度中运动的超弦如何恰当地描述所观察到的四维世界的问题将被探索。其他工作将涉及基本粒子族的统一，自然力的统一，以及量子场论中的各种主题。这项研究将由乔纳森·巴格尔进行，他是一位非常有前途的年轻物理学家，已被选为1987年新的总统青年调查人员之一。这项工作在物理学研究的前沿领域具有重要意义。

Research will be carried out in theoretical elementary particle physics. The work will range from studies which are close to experiment to development of new theories which may not be immediately testable. It will include research on superstring theories, which may provide a consistent, unified description of gravity and the other forces. In particular, the question of how superstrings, which move in ten space-time dimensions, can properly describe the observed four-dimensional world, will be explored. Other work will deal with the unification of the families of elementary particles, the unification of the forces of nature, and varied topics in quantum field theory. The research will be carried out by Jonathan Bagger, a very promising young physicist who has been selected to be one of the new Presidential Young Investigators for 1987. The work is of great importance and interest in what is certainly a frontier area of physics research.