Particle Physics and Cosmology: Theory Meets Data

这项资助支持乔纳森·巴格教授、大卫·E·哈伯德教授的研究活动。约翰霍普金斯大学的卡普兰、马克·卡米翁科夫斯基和基里尔·梅尔尼科夫。约翰霍普金斯理论小组的兴趣涉及现代理论高能物理和宇宙学的大多数主导领域。 在这个项目中，理论组的目标是解决粒子物理学和宇宙学理论和实验结合处的中心问题。 它计划为宇宙学观测和粒子物理学研究提出新的想法，开发和利用新的计算工具，将新物理学与标准模型背景区分开来，并提出新的机制和模型，最终可能有助于大自然定律的综合。预计该项目还将产生更广泛的重大影响。 这项拟议的研究将为研究生和博士后提供一个培训基地。 霍普金斯小组还计划继续他们的工作，传播物理学研究成果，以吸引年轻学生进入STEM职业。 巴格与马里兰州科学中心合作制作了一个天文馆展览，在四个国家有超过85,000人观看了展览，并计划继续他在这方面的活动。 卡普兰在国家地理频道共同主持了一季“已知宇宙”;他还计划继续创作一部长篇纪录片，以捕捉LHC的启动，启动和首次重要数据发布。 所有四个PI还计划继续与霍普金斯QuarkNet计划合作，该计划旨在将巴尔的摩高中教师和学生与从事尖端研究的物理学家联系起来。

This grant supports the research activities of Professors Jonathan Bagger, David E. Kaplan, Marc Kamionkowski, and Kirill Melnikov at Johns Hopkins University.The interests of the Johns Hopkins theory group touch on most of the dominant areas in modern theoretical high-energy physics and cosmology. In this project, the theory group aims to tackle central problems at the juncture of theory and experiment in particle physics and cosmology. It plans to advance new ideas for cosmological observations and particle physics searches, develop and exploit new calculational tools needed to discriminate new physics from Standard Model backgrounds, and propose new mechanisms and models that may ultimately help in the grand synthesis of nature's laws. This project is also envisioned to have significant broader impacts. This proposed research will provide a training ground for graduate students and postdocs. The Hopkins group also plans to continue their work disseminating the results of physics research in order to attract young students into STEM careers. Bagger has produced a planetarium show in collaboration with the Maryland Science Center that has been viewed by over 85,000 people in four countries, and plans to continue his activities in this direction. Kaplan co-hosted a season of the "Known Universe" on the National Geographic Channel; he also plans to continue creating a feature-length documentary to capture the ramp-up, start-up, and first significant data release of the LHC. All four PI's also plan to continue working with the Hopkins QuarkNet program, aimed at connecting Baltimore high school teachers and students with physicists engaged in cutting-edge research.