Research Areas in Theoretical Particle Physics

Faculty, postdocs, and graduate students in the Department are actively involved in theoretical research in a wide range of fields:

Quantum Field Theory

• Conformal field theory
• Formal properties of perturbation theory
• Lattice gauge theory
• Nonperturbative phenomena

String theory

• AdS/CFT correspondence
• Hydrodynamics

Particle-Physics Phenomenology

• LHC physics
• Supersymmetry
• Dark matter
• The Standard Model
• Hadron spectroscopy
• Neutrino physics

Nuclear Physics

• Breaking of fundamental symmetries in nuclei
• Nuclear physics problems in astrophysics
• Quark-gluon plasma and high-density matter

Foundations (see Quantum Foundations & Information Group)

• Foundations of quantum mechanics
• Group theory and relativistic quantum mechanics
• Quantum information theory
• Quantum gravity and quantum cosmology
• Quantum mechanics of black holes and the information puzzle

Bio-informatics

• Quantum clustering

Please see specific information in the personal pages of the faculty