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"To explore the fundamental laws of the Universe."

Research Areas

• Theoretical study of particle physics and the early Universe
• Model building for new physics beyond the Standard Model
• Collider physics and low energy rare processes predicted by new physics beyond the Standard Model
• Cosmology associated with dark matter, cosmic inflation, and exotic particles such as string moduli, axion, and gravitinos
• Dynamical symmetry breaking and low energy hadron physics
• String phenomenology

Introduction of Research Center

The IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe carries out research on particle physics and cosmology, which aims to understand nature at the most fundamental level and answer the questions about the origin of the universe.

The Standard Model of particle physics and Einstein's General Relativity provide an accurate description of almost all known physical phenomena over scales from the subnuclear to the cosmic. However, there are many reasons to believe that the Standard Model and General Relativity are not the final story, but merely a kind of approximation to a more fundamental theory. Astonishingly, the most compelling reason comes from cosmic observations; the existence of dark matter and matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe which can not be explained by the Standard Model. As another compelling reason, the naturalness argument for electroweak symmetry breaking in the Standard Model suggests a possibility of new physics at energy scales around TeV. The quest for unification and a theory of quantum gravity also lead us to speculate about more fundamental theoretical frameworks, such as grand unification and string theory.

The prime theme of our research is new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, which can provide an answer to the following questions:

• What is the dynamical origin of the electroweak symmetry breaking?
• What would account for the hierarchical structure of the Standard Model parameters?
• What is the nature of dark matter in the present universe?
• What physics drives inflationary expansion in the early universe?
• How to unify the fundamental forces of nature?

We are living in a very exciting era for particle physics and cosmology. What is the next fundamental theory that underlies the Standard Model of particle physics? We may be able to uncover it in the near future.

Faculty

Faculty

Name	Position	Phone	E-mail
CHOI Kiwoon	Director	+82-42-878-8400	kchoi@ibs.re.kr	More
Kenji KADOTA	Research Fellow	+82-42-878-8414	kadota@ibs.re.kr	More

Research

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