Theories of Matter, Energy, Space and Time

这项提议旨在解决弦理论、宇宙学和场论相交所面临的几个核心问题。该小组将应用新的有效场论和建模技术，并研究这些新思想的现象学。许多研究都围绕着额外维度的理论展开，涉及到将弦理论与宇宙学联系起来。重夸克有效理论将被用来理解D和B介子的唯象，并理解超越标准模型的物理。重点将放在解开TeV尺度上的新物理，以及它如何与标准模型的各种推广相关联。这项提议希望解决的问题是，与不同理论概念相联系的稳健信号是什么？对于不同的实验，存在哪些机会窗口？如何才能最好地区分理论场景？

This proposal intends to tackle several of the central problems facing the intersection of String theory, Cosmology and Field Theory. The group will apply new effective field theory and model-building techniques and study the phenomenology of these new ideas.. Many of the investigations center around theories with extra dimensions and involve relating String theory to cosmology. Heavy Quark effective theories will be used to understand the phenomenology of D and B mesons and understand physics beyond the standard model. Emphasis will be on disentangling new physics at the TeV scale and how it relates to various generalizations of the Standard Model.The questions this proposal hopes to address are what are the robust signals connected with different theoretical ideas? What windows of opportunities exist for the different experiments? How can theoretical scenarios be best distinguished?