The Standard Model and Beyond
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Edinburgh
Department Name: Sch of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Currently, our understanding of Nature at the most fundamental level is at the crossroads. This year, the LHC at CERN will collide protons at higher energies than ever before, sufficient to explore physics in depth at the TeV scale. Nobody yet knows what these data will reveal. However, there are very good reasons to believe that something fundamentally new will be discovered, which might transform our understanding of basic physics, making the next few years the most exciting time for a generation or more. The discoveries could be new types of particle, such as the Higgs boson, new kinds of symmetries such as supersymmetry, or indeed something even more dramatic such as extra dimensions. Our rolling programme of research in Particle Physics Theory at the University of Edinburgh is designed to be at the forefront of these new discoveries: indeed Peter Higgs himself is Emeritus Professor here. Specifically, we provide theoretical calculations, using pen and paper, and the most powerful supercomputers, of both the huge number of background processes to be seen at LHC due to known physics, and the tiny signals expected in various models of new physics, in order to discriminate between signal and background, and thus maximise the discovery potential of the LHC. In parallel, we will attempt to understand the more complete picture of all the forces of Nature that should begin to emerge, in our ultimate quest for a Theory of Everything.
Organisations
Publications
Medeiros P
(2008)
Lorentzian Lie 3-algebras and their Bagger-Lambert moduli space
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Konechny A
(2008)
Open string radiation from decaying FZZT branes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Boyle PA
(2008)
Kl3 semileptonic form factor from (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD.
in Physical review letters
Lucietti J
(2008)
Asymptotic counting of BPS operators in superconformal field theories
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Dittmaier S
(2008)
Charged-Higgs collider signals with or without flavor
in Physical Review D
Lechtenfeld O
(2008)
SU(3)-equivariant quiver gauge theories and nonabelian vortices
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Collaboration R
(2008)
Use of stochastic sources for the lattice determination of light quark physics
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lafaye R
(2008)
Measuring supersymmetry
in The European Physical Journal C
Cirafici M
(2008)
Instantons and Donaldson-Thomas invariants
in Fortschritte der Physik
Ball P
(2008)
Distribution amplitudes of the ? b baryon in QCD
in Physics Letters B
Antonio DJ
(2008)
Neutral-kaon mixing from (2+1)-flavor domain-wall QCD.
in Physical review letters
Marzani S
(2008)
Higgs production via gluon-gluon fusion with finite top mass beyond next-to-leading order
in Nuclear Physics B
Rosa J
(2008)
Resonant particle production in branonium
in Physical Review D
Debbio L
(2008)
Quenched mesonic spectrum at large N
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Litim DF
(2008)
Signatures of gravitational fixed points at the Large Hadron Collider.
in Physical review letters
Ball R
(2008)
Resummation of hadroproduction cross-sections at high energy
in Nuclear Physics B
Horsley R
(2008)
Perturbative determination of c S W for plaquette and Symanzik gauge action and stout link clover fermions
in Physical Review D
Hooper D
(2008)
Neutralino dark matter and trilepton searches in the MSSM
in Physical Review D
Allton C
(2008)
Physical results from 2 + 1 flavor domain wall QCD and SU(2) chiral perturbation theory
in Physical Review D
Göckeler M
(2008)
Nucleon distribution amplitudes from lattice QCD.
in Physical review letters
Dissertori G
(2008)
First determination of the strong coupling constant using NNLO predictions for hadronic event shapes in e + e - annihilations
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aoki Y
(2008)
Nonperturbative renormalization of quark bilinear operators and B K using domain wall fermions
in Physical Review D
Ali-Akbari M
(2008)
The relaxed three-algebras: their matrix representation and implications for multi M2-brane theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2008)
A dispersive approach to Sudakov resummation
in Nuclear Physics B
Sánchez J
(2008)
Warm hilltop inflation
in Physical Review D
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