U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research: Theoretical and Phenomeno- logical Studies in Elementary Particle Physics

该奖项将支持一个合作研究项目， “初等教育的理论和现象学研究 粒子物理”之间的一个小组在夏威夷大学 由Sandip Pakvasa教授和一群 来自筑波大学的日本科学家， 国家高能物理实验室（KEK） 东北大学。 原康夫教授，研究所 筑波大学物理系，是日本 组科学家们将一起进行联合调查 深入到理论研究领域 物理学 其中一个主要议题将是研究混合，CP 介子的破坏和罕见衰变。 相关专题 我们感兴趣是有焦点的弱衰变的计算方法 关于手性对称性。 待研究的另一类现象 是对电弱理论规范结构的检验， 标准模型之外的扩展， 打破束缚的机制，以及寻找新粒子。 美国和日本的许多组织成员都与 在过去。 他们的研究将对 未来的高能机器，如SSC和TeV 线性对撞机目前正在研究中，在日本KEK和 SLAC在美国。 这些群体也有很强的 对中微子质量、混合和振荡感兴趣， 将研究太阳能和大气的影响 神冈和其他实验的中微子日期， 影响，以及天体物理学中的中微子和轴子 和早期的宇宙

This award will support a cooperative research project in "Theoretical and Phenomenological Studies in Elementary Particle Physics" between a group at the University of Hawaii at Manoa led by Professor Sandip Pakvasa and a group of Japanese scientists from the University of Tsukuba, the National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (KEK), and Tohoku University. Professor Yasuo Hara, Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba, is the leader of the Japanese group. Together the scientists will pursue joint investigations into areas of intense current activity in theoretical physics. One of the main topics will be studies of mixing, CP violation and rare decays of mesons. Related topics of interest are methods of calculation of weak decays with focus on chiral symmetry. Another class of phenomema to be studied is testing of gauge structure of electro-weak theories, extensions beyond the standard model, the nature of the symmetry-breaking mechanism, and the search for new particles. Many members of the U.S. and Japanese groups have collaborated in the past. Their studies will have implications for future high energy machines such as SSC and also the TeV Linear Colliders currently under study in Japan at KEK and at SLAC in the United States. The groups also have strong interest in neutrino masses, mixings and oscillations, and will study the implications of solar and atmospheric neutrino date of Kamiokande and other experiments for their implications, as well as neutrinos and axions in astrophysics and the early universe.