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High Energy Theory Group

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN will discover how elementary particles get their mass. One possibility is the Higgs mechanism, which predicts a yet undiscovered particle, the Higgs boson. The image above, by L. Taylor and taken from a CERN website, is of a simulated event in which the supposed Higgs boson decays to four muonsFaculty
Christopher D. Carone (PhD Harvard, 1994)
Marc Sher (PhD Colorado, 1980)
Joshua Erlich (PhD MIT, 1999)
 
Postdoctoral Fellow

Hye-Sung Lee  (PhD UW-Madison, 2005)

 

Research

Our research in high energy theory focuses on physics beyond the standard model and its experimental consequences. Recent research topics include:

  •  Electroweak symmetry breaking
  •  Extra dimensions
  •  Noncommutative spacetime
  •  Lorentz violation
  •  Supersymmetry and unified theories
  •  Higgs physics
  •  String theory applied to Quantum Chromodynamics
  •  Particle physics applications of cosmology

For recent publications, click here

Students
Graduate:
  • Dylan Albrecht (Erlich)
Undergraduate:
  • Jennifer Hays (Carone)
  • Patrick King (Erlich)