Hitoshi Murayama
University of California-Berkeley, CA·Physics
What are the deepest laws of physics, from the smallest particles to the whole Universe? New data are arriving from several sources.
- Fields
Physics
Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Topics
theoretical particle physics
high energy physics
dark matter
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2028
What they work on
- Study non-perturbative dynamics of strongly coupled gauge theories, forces too strong for standard approximations, using exact supersymmetric solutions combined with anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking.
- Use these solvable theories to test ideas about axions, phase transitions and oblique confinement, an unusual way of binding particles together.
- Build models of dark matter and axions, hypothetical light particles, covering parameter ranges that current and planned experiments can probe.
- Develop flavor models at grand-unification and multi-TeV scales that make predictions for precision flavor experiments and could address the strong CP problem without an axion.
More about the research
These include the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world's highest-energy particle collider, as well as underground experiments in South Dakota, precision experiments at Fermilab (the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois), and astrophysics and cosmology. Theory is needed to tie these results into one coherent picture. This theoretical physics grant, shared by Professors Hitoshi Murayama and Lawrence J. Hall, covers a broad range of topics: - collider physics - dark matter - neutrinos - quark flavor, meaning the different types of quarks and how they mix - supersymmetry, a proposed symmetry pairing each known particle with a partner - cosmology and gravitational waves - strongly coupled quantum field theories - the multiverse
Why it matters
This is basic theoretical physics. It aims to explain dark matter, neutrino mass, quark flavor and the behavior of strongly interacting forces. Its models and predictions are meant to guide and interpret results from particle colliders, underground detectors, precision experiments and cosmological observations.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Kyoungchul Kong
University of Kansas, KS·Physics
Develop quantum algorithms for particle physics data analysis, collision event reconstruction and anomaly detection.
John Parsons
Columbia University, NY·Physics
Measure properties of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider to probe fundamental particles and possible links to dark energy.
Kaustubh Agashe
University of Maryland, MD·Physics
Develop frameworks in which Standard Model particles are composite and fused with supersymmetry, and test whether they resolve the electroweak and flavor hierarchy puzzles of the Standard Model.
The school
University of California-Berkeley: 46 labs on PI Pages, $1.1B a year on research, 825 research doctorates a year.
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