Particle Physics Phenomenology in the Standard Model and Beyond (2008-2013)JF
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Particle physics is the branch of physics concerned with the behaviour of matter at the smallest distances. Over the years, physicists have developed the 'Standard Model' of particle physics. It is a very elegant theory capable of describing pretty much all known phenomena (at least in principle) with the exception of gravity and it has been tested to remarkable precision in equally remarkable experiments based at the world's 'atom smashers' (a.k.a. particle accelerators). However, we know that the Standard Model is flawed and so we expect there to be physics 'Beyond the Standard Model'. This research project is concerned with identifying possible sources of new physics and exploring how it might manifest itself in experiments. This study is very timely because the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will soon start up at CERN, the European Centre for Particle Physics. This is the most powerful accelerator ever built and it is seriously expected to push the Standard Model to breaking point. QCD is that part of the Standard Model concerned with the strong nuclear force. It is rich in interesting physics and not so well understood as the rest of the Standard Model. We are experts in its study and will explore various aspects of QCD in this project. Moreover, QCD effects are almost always present in particle collisions and they must be understood if we are to make the most of our experiments. We will pay close attention to understanding the role of QCD when searching for new physics. The Big Bang model of the Universe implies there was a time, very early in the Universe's history, when particle physics played a crucial role in the evolution of the Universe. We will devote time in this project to exploring the particle physics of the Early Universe.
Organisations
Publications
Nolan P
(2015)
Octupolar invariants for compact binaries on quasicircular orbits
in Physical Review D
Faraggi A
(2015)
Extra $$Z^{\prime }$$ Z ' s and $$W^{\prime }$$ W ' s in heterotic-string derived models
in The European Physical Journal C
Dev PS
(2015)
Unified Explanation of the eejj, Diboson, and Dijet Resonances at the LHC.
in Physical review letters
Banerjee S
(2015)
Prospects of heavy neutrino searches at future lepton colliders
in Physical Review D
Ambrus V
(2015)
Massless rotating fermions inside a cylinder
Baer H
(2015)
Dark matter production in the early Universe: Beyond the thermal WIMP paradigm
in Physics Reports
Dev P
(2015)
TeV scale model for baryon and lepton number violation and resonant baryogenesis
in Physical Review D
Roszkowski L
(2015)
Prospects for dark matter searches in the pMSSM
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Burns D
(2015)
Matter quantum corrections to the graviton self-energy and the Newtonian potential
in Physical Review D
Chatterjee A
(2015)
Bound on largest r ? 0.1 from sub-Planckian excursions of inflaton
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Dev P
(2015)
Natural Standard Model Alignment in the Two Higgs Doublet Model
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Donnachie A
(2015)
Corrigendum to "pp and p ¯ p total cross sections and elastic scattering" [Phys. Lett. B 727 (4-5) (2013) 500-505]
in Physics Letters B
Van De Bruck C
(2015)
Stabilizing the Planck mass shortly after inflation
in Physical Review D
Dolan S
(2015)
Tidal invariants for compact binaries on quasicircular orbits
in Physical Review D
De Bruck C
(2015)
Disformal couplings and the dark sector of the universe
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Dayal P
(2015)
THE QUEST FOR CRADLES OF LIFE: USING THE FUNDAMENTAL METALLICITY RELATION TO HUNT FOR THE MOST HABITABLE TYPE OF GALAXY
in The Astrophysical Journal
Fischer N
(2015)
Measurement of observables sensitive to coherence effects in hadronic Z decays with the OPAL detector at LEP
in The European Physical Journal C
Dolan S
(2015)
Stability of black holes in Einstein-charged scalar field theory in a cavity
in Physical Review D
Bhupal Dev P
(2015)
TeV-scale left-right symmetry and large mixing effects in neutrinoless double beta decay
in Physical Review D
Kent C
(2015)
The global rotating scalar field vacuum on anti-de Sitter space-time
in Physics Letters B
Bhupal Dev P
(2015)
Erratum to: Maximally symmetric two Higgs doublet model with natural standard model alignment
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ambru? V
(2015)
Renormalised fermion vacuum expectation values on anti-de Sitter space-time
in Physics Letters B
De Bruck C
(2015)
The variation of the fine-structure constant from disformal couplings
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Pilaftsis A
(2015)
Mass bounds on light and heavy neutrinos from radiative minimal-flavor-violation leptogenesis
in Physical Review D
Kowalska K
(2015)
GUT-inspired SUSY and the muon g - 2 anomaly: prospects for LHC 14 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bélanger G
(2015)
Limits on dark matter proton scattering from neutrino telescopes using micrOMEGAs
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Lyth D
(2015)
Generating f NL at l ? 60
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bezrukov F
(2015)
Living beyond the edge: Higgs inflation and vacuum metastability
in Physical Review D
Dev P
(2015)
Flavour effects in Resonant Leptogenesis from semi-classical and Kadanoff-Baym approaches
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Ángeles-Martínez R
(2015)
Coulomb gluons and the ordering variable
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Conroy A
(2015)
Generalized quadratic curvature, non-local infrared modifications of gravity and Newtonian potentials
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Bomark N
(2015)
A light NMSSM pseudoscalar Higgs boson at the LHC redux
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bezrukov F
(2015)
Inflation, LHC and the Higgs boson
in Comptes Rendus. Physique
Bezrukov F
(2015)
Semiclassical S-matrix for black holes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Baxter J
(2016)
Topological black holes in su ( N ) Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with a negative cosmological constant
in Physics Letters B
Nolan B
(2016)
On the stability of dyons and dyonic black holes in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Mazumdar A
(2016)
Possible resolution of the domain wall problem in the NMSSM
in Physical Review D
Lyth D
(2016)
The History of the Universe
Pilaftsis A
(2016)
Diphoton signatures from heavy axion decays at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
in Physical Review D
Winstanley E
(2016)
1st Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics
| Description | Progress on many fronts towards a better understanding of the universe, by developing theoretical models constrained by data from the LHC and cosmology experiments such as Planck. |
| Exploitation Route | Other scientists will develop their research in light of our publications. |
| Sectors | Energy |
| Description | Researchers supported by this award have been very active in outreach activities for the general public, schools and scientists from other fields |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Education |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |