Elementary Particle Theory

Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station TX

Investigators

Abstract

Research in theoretical elementary particle physics will include work on relating theoretical predictions to new experiments that will be performed in the near future, and to the development of ideas involving superstring theory, a theory of all fundamental interactions. The detection of dark matter, the mysterious non luminous material that appears to make up about 90 % of our Milky Way galaxy, and the the recent exciting Brookhaven National Laboratory measurements that appear to indicate the existance of new physical phenomena will be analyzed, and a study will be made of how superstring models can account for the masses of elementary particles. The analyses of experimental predictions are of importance as a whole array of new experiments that will be able to discover the existence of new laws of physics in the high energy domain have now started or will start in the near future, and these experiments can be used to test new theories of nature and determine what these new laws are. The theoretical work on superstring theory is of importance as this theory is one of the main candidates for a new theory of all interactions including gravity, as well as representing a possible fundamental framework for cosmology.