Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model and the Astroparticle Frontier

Trustees Of Boston University, Boston

Investigators

Abstract

Research in theoretical phusics will focus on improving our understanding of elementary particles, their interactions, and their relevance to astrophysics and cosmology. Plausible extensions of today's very well confirmed "standard model" of the elementary particles will be constructed in order to resolve such outstanding questions as the contrasting and unexplained patterns of neutrino and quark masses, especially the underlying mechanisms producing these masses; the nature of the dark matter and dark energy that now dominate the dynamics of the universe; the origin of cosmic rays with energies beyond what was expected; the failure to detect any electric dipole moment of the neutron and the apparent departure of the recently-observed magnetic moment of the muon from its predicted value.