Theoretical Physics

理论基本粒子物理的研究将集中在核物质在极端环境中的性质，如高温或高密度。在这些情况下，在接近大原子核内部的常规物质和新的、高度奇异的大规模物质状态之间预计会发生相变，在这些状态中，可能存在超流、超导和非限制夸克和胶子的等离子体，这些是核物质的组成部分。计算机模拟以及基于对称性理论的精确分析方法将被用来寻找这些新现象。这些研究很重要，因为它们可以告诉我们早期宇宙的条件。

Research in theoretical elementary particle physics will focus on theproperties of nuclear matter in extreme environments, such as hightemperatures or high density. Phase transitions are expected in thesesituations between conventional matter approximating the interior of alarge nucleus and new, highly exotic large-scale states of matter in whichthere may be superfluidity, superconductivity and plasmas of unconfinedquarks and gluons, the constituents of nuclear matter. Computersimulations as well as precise, analytic methods based on the theory ofsymmetries, will be employed to search for these new phenomena. Thesestudies are important because they may tell us about conditions in theearly universe.