Particles and Fields

Elementary particle physics studies the most basic building blocks of Nature and their mutual interactions, as well as the immediate structures that they form. Their dynamics is governed by the underlying symmetries and conservations laws that pervade all of physics in some form. These subatomic phenomena easily involve very high energies, as were widely available in the earliest epochs in the history of our Universe, and so ultimately also relate to its evolution as studied in cosmology and astrophysics.This research also involves the development of computational approaches to relativistic and non-relativistic few-body scattering.

Researchers in this field work on cutting edge and fundamental topics within the discipline, including but not limited to:

string theory and its M- and F-theory extensions
supersymmetry and its breaking
geometry and topology of spacetime
quantum field theory
origins and properties of dark matter and dark energy

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