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
Badger S
(2013)
A two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitude in QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ivanova T
(2013)
Orbifold instantons, moment maps, and Yang-Mills theory with sources
in Physical Review D
Lyon J
(2013)
Isospin asymmetries in B ? ( K * , ? ) ? / l + l - and B ? K l + l - in and beyond the standard model
in Physical Review D
Dukes M
(2013)
Web worlds, web-colouring matrices, and web-mixing matrices
in Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Ball R
(2013)
Unbiased determination of polarized parton distributions and their uncertainties
in Nuclear Physics B
Dolan B
(2013)
Solitons and Yukawa couplings in nearly Kähler flux compactifications
in Physical Review D
Badger S
(2013)
Numerical evaluation of virtual corrections to multi-jet production in massless QCD
in Computer Physics Communications
Ball R
(2013)
Parton distributions with LHC data
in Nuclear Physics B
Craps B
(2013)
Strings in compact cosmological spaces
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kunduri HK
(2014)
Supersymmetric black holes with lens-space topology.
in Physical review letters
Salgado P
(2014)
Topological gravity and transgression holography
in Physical Review D
Shanahan P
(2014)
Electric form factors of the octet baryons from lattice QCD and chiral extrapolation
in Physical Review D
Hiller G
(2014)
(A)symmetries of weak decays at and near the kinematic endpoint
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2014)
The homogeneity theorem for supergravity backgrounds II: the six-dimensional theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Mylonas D
(2014)
Non-geometric fluxes, quasi-Hopf twist deformations, and nonassociative quantum mechanics
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Badger S
(2014)
Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to five jet production at the LHC
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2014)
MCgrid: Projecting cross section calculations on grids
in Computer Physics Communications
Bastero-Gil M
(2014)
Cosmological fluctuations of a random field and radiation fluid
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Kunduri H
(2014)
The first law of soliton and black hole mechanics in five dimensions
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
BOYLE P
(2014)
LATTICE INPUT ON THE INCLUSIVE t DECAY V us PUZZLE
in International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series
McComb WD
(2014)
Spectral analysis of structure functions and their scaling exponents in forced isotropic turbulence.
in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
Giasemidis G
(2014)
Supersymmetric gauge theories, Coulomb gases, and Chern-Simons matrix models
in Physical Review D
Ball R
(2014)
Polarized parton distributions at an electron-ion collider
in Physics Letters B
Bullimore M
(2014)
The superconformal index and an elliptic algebra of surface defects
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Mylonas D
(2014)
Nonassociative field theory on non-geometric spaces
in Fortschritte der Physik
Shanahan P
(2014)
Magnetic form factors of the octet baryons from lattice QCD and chiral extrapolation
in Physical Review D
Monteiro R
(2014)
Black holes and the double copy
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Badger S
(2014)
Computation of multi-leg amplitudes with NJET
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Abreu S
(2014)
From multiple unitarity cuts to the coproduct of Feynman integrals
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2014)
From webs to polylogarithms
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Konechny A
(2014)
Entropy of conformal perturbation defects
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Sämann C
(2014)
Six-Dimensional Superconformal Field Theories from Principal 3-Bundles over Twistor Space
in Letters in Mathematical Physics
Ritter P
(2014)
Lie 2-algebra models
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Palmer S
(2014)
Self-dual string and higher instanton solutions
in Physical Review D
Prochazka V
(2014)
Gluon condensates from the Hamiltonian formalism
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Falcioni G
(2014)
Multiple gluon exchange webs
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Hambrock C
(2014)
B ? K * form factors from flavor data to QCD and back
in Physical Review D
Grazzini M
(2014)
Resummation of the transverse-energy distribution in Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Horsley R
(2014)
The SU(3) beta function from numerical stochastic perturbation theory
in Physics Letters B
Palmer S
(2014)
The ABJM model is a higher gauge theory
in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
Behr N
(2014)
Renormalization and redundancy in 2d quantum field theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Del Debbio L
(2014)
Conformal scaling and the size of m -hadrons
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2014)
Renormalisation group, trace anomaly and Feynman-Hellmann theorem
in Physics Letters B
Li C
(2014)
Three-dimensional black holes and descendants
in Physics Letters B
Maltman K
(2014)
Lattice Input on the t V u s Puzzle
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Kunduri H
(2014)
Degenerate horizons, Einstein metrics, and Lens space bundles
in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Horsley R
(2014)
Nucleon axial charge and pion decay constant from two-flavor lattice QCD
in Physics Letters B
Chambers A
(2014)
Feynman-Hellmann approach to the spin structure of hadrons
in Physical Review D
Bruzzo U
(2014)
$${\mathcal{N} = 2}$$ N = 2 Quiver Gauge Theories on A-type ALE Spaces
in Letters in Mathematical Physics
Badger S
(2014)
Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to di-photon production in association with up to three jets at the Large Hadron Collider
in Journal of High Energy Physics
| Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
| Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
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