Physics Beyond the Standard Model

该项目将支持五名首席研究人员，考斯图布·阿加什、扎卡里亚·查科、小詹姆斯·盖茨、拉宾德拉·N·莫哈帕特拉和拉曼·桑德鲁姆，继续他们正在进行的关于物质成分的性质和起源、它们之间的作用力以及可能存在的额外隐藏空间维度的理论研究。私人投资者将使用为此目的开发的现有数学工具，并寻找新的工具。他们计划研究希格斯玻色子的性质，这是该领域过去一年的一项重大发现，是为物质提供质量的粒子，以及它的同伴粒子可能存在，这些粒子可能表明了任何新的对称性，或者可能给填充在宇宙中的微小粒子中微子提供质量。这不仅有望拓宽我们对已知亚原子现象的理解，而且在这个过程中，发现可以在大型强子对撞机等机器上测试的新亚原子现象。这项研究的最终目的是寻求力和物质及其对宇宙演化的影响之间的根本统一。这些研究将对宇宙中物质和暗物质的起源以及暗能量和暗辐射的起源等问题提供线索。宏大的画面激动人心，智力挑战和与不同实验的联系使这个项目成为一个极好的训练基地。因此，该项目侧重于支持两名学生和两名博士后。为了扩大研究的影响，教育和宣传有很大的组成部分，包括针对本科生和高中生的研究，重点是来自历史上有黑人历史的大学的学生。该项目的工作将通过公共和学校讲座以及媒体广播和采访得到更广泛的传播。

This project will support five principal investigators, Kaustubh Agashe, Zackaria Chacko, S. James Gates Jr., Rabindra N. Mohapatra and Raman Sundrum, to continue their on-going theoretical investigations into the nature and origin of the constituents of matter and the forces operating between them as well as the possible existence of extra hidden space dimensions. The PIs will use existing mathematical tools developed for this purpose and seek new ones. They plan to study the nature of the Higgs boson, a major discovery of the past year in the field, the particle that gives mass to matter, and the possible existence of its companion particles that may be indicating any new symmetries or possibly giving mass to tiny particles filling the universe called the neutrinos. This is expected not only to broaden our understanding of the known subatomic phenomena but also in the process, discover new ones that can be tested in machines such as the Large Hadron Collider. The ultimate goal of this research is to seek a fundamental unity among the forces and matter and their impact on the evolution of the Cosmos. These investigations will throw light on such questions as the origin of matter and dark matter in the universe as well as the origin of dark energy and dark radiation. The combination of big picture excitement,intellectual challenge and connections to diverse experiments makes this project an excellent training ground. The project is therefore weighted towards supporting two students and two postdocs. There is a substantial component of education and outreach to broaden the impact of the research, including research for undergraduate and high school students, with an emphasis on students from historically black colleges. The work in this project will be disseminated even more broadly through public and school lectures, and media broadcasts and interviews.