GRK 1504: Mass, Spectrum, Symmetry: Particle Physics in the Era of the Large Hadron Collider

基本粒子物理学的标准模型总结了我们对基本粒子本质的理论理解，并且已经被令人生畏地欺骗了。在过去的几十年里被实验所重塑。然而，很明显，标准模型仅为我们提供了一个有效的量子理论，适用于目前可获得的能量范围，特别是不包括引力。2008年5月，欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）的大型强子对撞机（LHC）的启动标志着一个新时代的开始，我们期待着新的基础发现可能会让我们超越标准模型。大型强子对撞机将探索标准模型的质量产生机制，但也将寻找超对称粒子、宇宙中的暗物质候选者，甚至寻找额外空间维度的存在，这些迄今为止一直是推测性理论研究的主题。来自大型强子对撞机的挑战需要基本粒子物理不同实验和理论工作领域的强大整合和沟通。这正是研究培训小组的主要目标。它旨在统一柏林，德累斯顿和泽滕的广泛实验和理论专业知识，并将基本粒子物理学的共同特征重新置于博士生培训的中心。所涉及的实验小组之间的共同联系，特别是他们参与了大型强子对撞机的ATLAS实验，并在那里寻找新的物理学。所涉及的理论群之间的联系是量子的？场理论，它被摄动地、非摄动地、数值地处理，并在弦理论的背景下进行推广。除了所涉及的研究小组范围广泛（这在德国东部是独一无二的）之外，所申请的研究培训小组的特点是有大量初级研究人员参加。该课程的目标是优秀的博士生，他们在洪堡大学和德累斯顿技术大学的讲座和研讨会以及每年两次的基本粒子主题的每周强化课程中接受培训。研究培训小组的进一步特点是二级顾问概念，期中报告以及优秀硕士生获得博士学位的快速通道。

The standard model of elementary particle physics summarises our theoretical understanding of the nature of elementary particles and has been formidably con?rmed by experiment in the last decades. It is nevertheless clear that the standard model only provides us with an effective quantum theory for the presently accessible energy range, which in particular does not include the gravitational force. The start of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in May 2008 marks the onset of a new era from which we expect new fundamental discoveries likely to take us beyond the standard model. The LHC will explore the mass generation mechanism of the standard model, but will also search for supersymmetric particles, for dark matter candidates in the universe and even for the existence of extra dimensions of space, which have been so far the subject of speculative, theoretical research. The challenges emerging from the LHC require a strong integration and communication of the different experimental and theoretical working areas of elementary particle physics. Precisely this is the key goal of the Research Training Group. It aims at unifying the broad experimental and theoretical expertise in Berlin, Dresden and Zeuthen and to place the common character of elementary particle physics back into the centre of the training of doctoral students. The common link of the involved experimental groups is in particular their participation in the ATLAS experiment at LHC and the search for new physics there. The link of the theoretical groups involved is quantum ?eld theory, which is treated perturbatively, nonperturbatively, numerically and in its generalisations in the context of string theory. In addition to the broad spectrum of the involved research groups, which is unique for the eastern part of Germany, the Research Training Group applied for is characterised by a large number of particpating junior researchers. The curriculum aims at excellent doctoral students, who are trained in lectures and seminars at Humboldt University and Technical University of Dresden as well as in weekly intensive courses on topics in elementary particles taking place twice a year. Further features of the Research Training Group are a secondary advisor concept, a midterm report as well as a fast track to PhD opportunity for excellent Masters students.