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
Cacciari M
(2016)
A note on the fate of the Landau-Yang theorem in non-Abelian gauge theories
in Physics Letters B
Prochazka V
(2016)
N = 1 $$ \mathcal{N}=1 $$ Euler anomaly flow from dilaton effective action
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Caputa P
(2015)
Scrambling time from local perturbations of the eternal BTZ black hole
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aschieri P
(2015)
Triproducts, nonassociative star products and geometry of R -flux string compactifications
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Aminov G
(2015)
Seiberg-Witten curves and double-elliptic integrable systems
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Luna A
(2015)
The classical double copy for Taub-NUT spacetime
in Physics Letters B
Sämann C
(2015)
Bootstrapping fuzzy scalar field theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bruzzo U
(2015)
Framed sheaves on projective stacks
in Advances in Mathematics
Badger S
(2015)
One-loop triple collinear splitting amplitudes in QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Hickling A
(2015)
Null infinity and extremal horizons in AdS-CFT
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
McComb W
(2015)
Self-organization and transition to turbulence in isotropic fluid motion driven by negative damping at low wavenumbers
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Ball R
(2015)
Charm in deep-inelastic scattering
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Boyle P
(2015)
The kaon semileptonic form factor in N f = 2 + 1 domain wall lattice QCD with physical light quark masses
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Shanahan P
(2015)
SU(3) breaking in hyperon transition vector form factors
in Physical Review D
Badger S
(2015)
A complete two-loop, five-gluon helicity amplitude in Yang-Mills theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bartrum S
(2015)
Fluctuation-dissipation dynamics of cosmological scalar fields
in Physical Review D
Debbio L
(2015)
Recent progress in simulations of gauge theories on the lattice
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Lechtenfeld O
(2015)
Sasakian quiver gauge theories and instantons on cones over lens 5-spaces
in Nuclear Physics B
Bonocore D
(2015)
The method of regions and next-to-soft corrections in Drell-Yan production
in Physics Letters B
Shanahan PE
(2015)
Determination of the strange nucleon form factors.
in Physical review letters
Hustler N
(2015)
(M-theory-)Killing spinors on symmetric spaces
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Horsley R
(2015)
Lattice determination of Sigma-Lambda mixing
in Physical Review D
Rea S
(2015)
The phase diagram of scalar field theory on the fuzzy disc
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Christ N
(2015)
B -meson decay constants from 2 + 1 -flavor lattice QCD with domain-wall light quarks and relativistic heavy quarks
in Physical Review D
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