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
Andersen J
(2008)
Loop induced interference effects in Higgs boson plus two jet production at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueras P
(2008)
Extremal vacuum black holes in higher dimensions
in Physical Review D
Grégoire T
(2008)
A composite gluino at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aoki Y
(2008)
Proton lifetime bounds from chirally symmetric lattice QCD
in Physical Review D
Lazaroiu C
(2008)
Generalized Berezin quantization, Bergman metrics and fuzzy laplacians
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2008)
Lorentzian Lie n-algebras
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Brömmel D
(2008)
Spin structure of the pion.
in Physical review letters
Yamazaki T
(2008)
Nucleon axial charge in (2+1)-flavor dynamical-lattice QCD with domain-wall fermions.
in Physical review letters
Debbio L
(2008)
Higher representations on the lattice: perturbative studies
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2008)
A Geometric Construction of the Exceptional Lie Algebras F 4 and E 8
in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Heinrich G
(2008)
Master integrals for fermionic contributions to massless three-loop form factors
in Physics Letters B
Medeiros P
(2008)
Metric Lie 3-algebras in Bagger-Lambert theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Cherkis S
(2008)
Multiple M2-branes and generalized 3-Lie algebras
in Physical Review D
Collaborations R
(2008)
The pion's electromagnetic form factor at small momentum transfer in full lattice QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Binoth T
(2008)
NLO QCD corrections to tri-boson production
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Altarelli G
(2008)
Small x resummation with quarks: Deep-inelastic scattering
in Nuclear Physics B
Antonio D
(2008)
Localization and chiral symmetry in three flavor domain wall QCD
in Physical Review D
Medeiros P
(2009)
Metric 3-Lie algebras for unitary Bagger-Lambert theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kilic C
(2009)
Searching for multijet resonances at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E.
(2009)
Infrared singularities in QCD amplitudes
in Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C
Bagchi A
(2009)
Supersymmetric extension of Galilean conformal algebras
in Physical Review D
Ball R
(2009)
A determination of parton distributions with faithful uncertainty estimation
in Nuclear Physics B
Hart A
(2009)
Automated generation of lattice QCD Feynman rules
in Computer Physics Communications
Kunduri H
(2009)
Static near-horizon geometries in five dimensions
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Göckeler M
(2009)
Non-perturbative renormalization of three-quark operators
in Nuclear Physics B
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