U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Theoretical and Phenomenological Aspects of Superstring-inspired Models

该奖项将支持加州大学伯克利分校的Mary K. Gaillard教授和法国安纳西粒子物理vieux实验室（LAPP）的Pierre Binetruy博士正在进行的合作研究。该研究项目将重点研究有效的非重整化场论的量子修正。主要目标是理解由超弦理论提出的有效四维场论的可观测扇区中的超对称破缺。以前开发的协变环展开技术将得到推广和扩展。这些结果对暴胀和宇宙学其他方面的影响也将被研究。美国和法国的研究小组过去进行了广泛的合作。这个项目将有助于增加两个小组在这个主题上的交流，这解决了基本粒子理论的前沿问题。

This award will support ongoing collaborative research between Professor Mary K. Gaillard of the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Pierre Binetruy, Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP) in Annecy, France. The research program will focus on the study of quantum corrections to effective non-renormalizable field theories. The primary goal is to understand supersymmetry breaking in the observable sector of effective four-dimensional field theories suggested by superstring theories. Previously developed covariant loop expansion techniques will be generalized and extended. Implications of the results for inflation and other aspects of cosmology will also be studied. The U.S. and French research groups have collaborated extensively in the past. This project will contribute to increased exchanges between the two groups on this topic, which addresses issues at the forefront of elementary particle theory.