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Prof. dr hab. Stefan Pokorski
Wydział Fizyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
ul. Hoża 69, 00-681 Warszawa

Projekt Harmonia NCN (2011-2014)

Znalezienie rozwiązania problemu masy w oddziaływaniach elementarnych przy wykorzystaniu wczesnych danych LHC

Scientific goal of the project

This project is devoted to theoretical research in the physics of elementary interactions. Its scientific goal is to contribute to the discovery of the theory that will extend the Standard Model and will solve the mass problem of elementary particles. Such a solution should explain the dynamical origin of the Fermi scale and its quantum stability, and the origin of quark and lepton mass hierarchies, in the framework of one coherent theory. This is now the frontline of theoretical research in the physics of elementary interactions, closely correlated with experimental programme based on experiments at the LHC (CERN).

The scientific significance of the project

Finding the dynamical solution to both mentioned-above aspects of the mass problem in elementary interactions is a guiding principle in search of the coherent deeper than the Standard Model theory of the structure of matter and interactions of its elementary components. The discovery of this theory will have fundamental significance for our knowledge of the fundamental laws of Nature, is necessary for knowing the history of the Universe in very early moments after the Big Bang, and may have important impact on the development of related research fields, such as string theory, the inclusion of gravity into a quantum theory of elementary interactions and lattice gauge theories for strong interaction physics.

The two aspects of the mass problem give complementary insights into beyond the Standard Model physics and merging them together is a theoretical challenge and correlates predictions for flavour physics and collider physics. Our believe in the scientific success of this project is based on the fact that the team proposing it has very strong expertise in beyond the Standard Model physics and significant, very much appreciated by the international community, achievements in this field of research. The members of this team have proposed some of the widely used in the beyond the Standard Model physics (BSM) research tools like e.g. deconstruction (of extra dimensions), and were among the first to begin to explore the importance of search for the simultaneous dynamical theory of the electroweak breaking and for the hierarchies of fermions masses.