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
Ball R
(2013)
Parton distribution benchmarking with LHC data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Blossier B
(2012)
Parameters of heavy quark effective theory from N f = 2 lattice QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Jurco B
(2015)
Semistrict higher gauge theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Szabo R
(2014)
Covariant quiver gauge theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dolan B
(2009)
Dimensional reduction, monopoles and dynamical symmetry breaking
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2014)
Supersymmetry of hyperbolic monopoles
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lashkari N
(2014)
From state distinguishability to effective bulk locality
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lucietti J
(2013)
On the horizon instability of an extreme Reissner-Nordström black hole
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sheikh-Jabbari M
(2009)
On half-BPS states of the ABJM theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Mogull G
(2015)
Overcoming obstacles to colour-kinematics duality at two loops
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bonvini M
(2015)
Parton distributions with threshold resummation
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gleisberg T
(2009)
Event generation with SHERPA 1.1
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2008)
Higher representations on the lattice: perturbative studies
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bonocore D
(2015)
A factorization approach to next-to-leading-power threshold logarithms
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bjerrum-Bohr N
(2013)
Integrand oxidation and one-loop colour-dual numerators in $ \mathcal{N}=4 $ gauge theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2010)
Fitting parton distribution data with multiplicative normalization uncertainties
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2009)
Factorization constraints for soft anomalous dimensions in QCD scattering amplitudes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gimon E
(2009)
Constituent model of extremal non-BPS black holes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Boels R
(2013)
Colour-Kinematics duality for one-loop rational amplitudes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Monteiro R
(2014)
The kinematic algebras from the scattering equations
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dixon L
(2010)
On soft singularities at three loops and beyond
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Caputa P
(2015)
Quantum entanglement of localized excited states at finite temperature
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dukes M
(2014)
Webs and posets
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Papaefstathiou A
(2010)
Resummation of transverse energy in vector boson and Higgs boson production at hadron colliders
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2015)
Parton distributions for the LHC run II
in Journal of High Energy Physics
| Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
| Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
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