Multidiscipline Approach to the UV Completion of the Standard Model: Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Collider Physics

该奖项资助了纽约市立大学雷曼学院路易斯·安克雷多基教授的研究。经过近二十年的规划和建设，大型强子对撞机（LHC）现在是世界上最大和最强大的粒子对撞机。通过使基本粒子在高能下相互碰撞，物理学家希望了解物质的基本成分，以及它们在更高能量和更小距离下的相互作用，这是以前从未探索过的。目前，解释这些基本粒子如何在尽可能高的能量下相互作用的最成功的理论是弦理论。弦理论的优势在于，它不仅解释了所有基本粒子作为一根基本弦的不同激发而存在，而且还解释了引力如何与其他非引力统一。在他的研究中，安克雷多基教授的目标是开发方法，在大型强子对撞机中寻找和测试来自弦理论的一些想法。因此，该领域的研究通过促进科学在其最基本的方向之一的进步：发现和理解新的物理定律，从而促进了国家利益。预计该项目还将产生更广泛的重大影响。安克雷多基教授将让研究生和博士后参与他的研究，从而为刚开始在这一领域进行研究的初级物理学家提供关键培训。他还打算就他的研究成果进行公开演讲，并根据LHC的研究成果开发新的课程。从技术上讲，Anchordoqui教授将考虑基于开放弦的标准模型的扩展，开放弦以d膜为终点，规范玻色子以弦的形式出现在一堆d膜上，手性物质以弦的形式出现在相交的d膜之间。假设基本弦的质量尺度在TeV范围内，并且理论是弱耦合的，anchdoqui教授将开发一系列搜索策略，这些策略将在大型强子对撞机中显示弦物理。其中包括对所谓的“格林-施瓦茨机制”的重新检查，对量子场理论的作用泛函的修改，涉及更高规范场，使原始作用泛函的量子异常消失，以及最小左右对称交叉d膜模型的研究。他还计划研究观察到的μ子异常磁矩与理论计算之间的（可能的）差异是否可以在低质量尺度弦共振的背景下解释。安克雷多基教授还将对显示s -对偶性的通货膨胀潜力进行现象学分析。安克雷多基教授还参与了皮埃尔·奥格合作项目，寻找最高能量宇宙射线的起源和本质，并研究质心能量处的粒子相互作用，这些能量远远超出了大型强子对撞机所能达到的水平。

This award funds the research of Professor Luis Anchordoqui at CUNY Lehman College.After nearly twenty years of planning and construction, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now the world's largest and most powerful particle collider. By colliding elementary particles against each other at high energies, physicists expect to learn about the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions at higher energies and smaller distances than have ever been previously explored. Currently the most successful theory for explaining how these elementary particles interact at the highest possible energies is string theory. String theory has the advantage of not only explaining the existence of all of the elementary particles as different excitations of a fundamental string, but also explaining how gravity might be unified with the other, non-gravitational forces. In his research, Professor Anchordoqui aims to develop methods to search for and test some of the ideas coming from string theory at the LHC. As a consequence, research in this area advances the national interest by promoting the progress of science in one of its most fundamental directions: the discovery and understanding of new physical laws. This project is also envisioned to have significant broader impacts. Professor Anchordoqui will involve graduate students and postdocs in his research, and thereby provide critical training for junior physicists beginning research in this field. He also intends to give public lectures on his research results, and develop new course curricula based on results from the LHC.More technically, Professor Anchordoqui will consider extensions of the Standard Model based on open strings ending on D-branes, with gauge bosons emerging as strings attached to stacks of D-branes and with chiral matter emerging as strings stretching between intersecting D-branes. Assuming that the fundamental string mass scale is in the TeV range and the theory is weakly coupled, Professor Anchordoqui will develop a number of search strategies that would signal string physics at the LHC. These include a re-examination of the so-called "Green-Schwarz mechanism", a modification of an action functional of a quantum field theory involving higher gauge fields that makes a quantum anomaly of the original action functional disappear, as well as the study of the minimal left-right symmetric intersecting D-brane model. He also plans to investigate whether the (possible) discrepancy between observation and theoretical calculation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon can be explained in the context of low-mass-scale string resonances. Professor Anchordoqui will also undertake a phenomenological analysis of inflationary potentials exhibiting S-duality. Professor Anchordoqui is also involved with the Pierre Auger Collaboration, searching for the origin and nature of the highest-energy cosmic rays and studying particle interactions at center-of-mass energies well beyond those attained at the LHC.