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High Energy Theory Group

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN discovered the Higgs boson, a particle associated with the field responsible for the masses of all the elementary particles.  The image above is of a candidate Higgs event, from the CMS experiment.Faculty

Christopher D. Carone (PhD Harvard, 1994)
Marc Sher (PhD Colorado, 1980)
Joshua Erlich (PhD MIT, 1999)

Research

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

  •  Extensions of the standard model
  •  Models of dark matter
  •  Higher derivative and nonlocal quantum field theories
  •  Higgs physics
  •  Applications of the AdS / CFT correspondence
  • Particle physics of the early universe
  • Quantum theories of gravity
  • Black holes

For recent publications, click here

Graduate Students:

  • Noah Donald
  • Matthew Knauss
  • Selin Asmanoglu

Undergraduate Students:

  • Liam Staker
  • Isla Thomas