LHC Theory Initiative

该奖项资助大型强子对撞机理论计划，这是一个竞争性的国家奖学金计划，支持理论粒子物理方面的研究生和博士后研究员的培训。经过近20年的规划和建造，大型强子对撞机(LHC)现在是世界上能量最高的粒子对撞机。来自大型强子对撞机的数据很可能会产生一个新的粒子物理“标准模型”，描述物质的组成单元及其在更高能量尺度上的相互作用。这一奖项将资助旨在解释大型强子对撞机数据的年轻理论家的竞争性研究生和博士后奖学金。理论分析是对大型强子对撞机实验计划的必要补充，这一奖项将有助于确保美国拥有所需的年轻理论家，以充分受益于对大型强子对撞机实验设施的投资。该项目也被认为将产生重大的更广泛的影响。特别是，它将培训这一基本物理领域的下一代领导人。

This award funds the LHC Theory Initiative, a competitive national fellowship program supporting the training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in theoretical particle physics.After nearly twenty years of planning and construction, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now the highest-energy particle collider in the world. Data from the LHC is likely to lead to nothing less than a new "Standard Model" of particle physics, describing the building blocks of matter and their interactions at an even higher energy scale. This award will fund competitive graduate student and postdoctoral fellowships aimed at young theorists intent on interpreting the LHC data. Theoretical analysis provides an essential complement to the LHC experimental program, and this award will help ensure that the United States has the young theorists it needs to gain full benefit from the investment it had made in the LHC experimental facility.This project is also envisioned to have significant broader impacts. In particular, it will train leaders of the next generation in this fundamental field of physics.