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
Kunduri H
(2009)
A classification of near-horizon geometries of extremal vacuum black holes
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Kunduri H
(2014)
Degenerate horizons, Einstein metrics, and Lens space bundles
in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Kunduri H
(2009)
Uniqueness of near-horizon geometries of rotating extremal AdS 4 black holes
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Kunduri H
(2014)
Black hole non-uniqueness via spacetime topology in five dimensions
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kunduri HK
(2014)
Supersymmetric black holes with lens-space topology.
in Physical review letters
Kunduri HK
(2013)
Classification of Near-Horizon Geometries of Extremal Black Holes.
in Living reviews in relativity
Kökényesi Z
(2013)
Refined Chern-Simons theory and (q, t)-deformed Yang-Mills theory: Semi-classical expansion and planar limit
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lafaye R
(2008)
Measuring supersymmetry
in The European Physical Journal C
Lashkari N
(2014)
From state distinguishability to effective bulk locality
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lazaroiu C
(2008)
Generalized Berezin quantization, Bergman metrics and fuzzy laplacians
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lechtenfeld O
(2008)
SU(3)-equivariant quiver gauge theories and nonabelian vortices
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lechtenfeld O
(2015)
Sasakian quiver gauge theories and instantons on cones over lens 5-spaces
in Nuclear Physics B
Li C
(2013)
Uniqueness of extreme horizons in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Li C
(2014)
Three-dimensional black holes and descendants
in Physics Letters B
Linkmann MF
(2015)
Nonuniversality and Finite Dissipation in Decaying Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence.
in Physical review letters
Litim DF
(2008)
Signatures of gravitational fixed points at the Large Hadron Collider.
in Physical review letters
Lucietti J
(2008)
Asymptotic counting of BPS operators in superconformal field theories
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Lucietti J
(2013)
On the horizon instability of an extreme Reissner-Nordström black hole
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Luna A
(2015)
The classical double copy for Taub-NUT spacetime
in Physics Letters B
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
Maier A
(2010)
Low-energy moments of heavy quark current correlators at four loops
in Nuclear Physics B
Maltman K
(2014)
Lattice Input on the t V u s Puzzle
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Marzani S
(2008)
Higgs production via gluon-gluon fusion with finite top mass beyond next-to-leading order
in Nuclear Physics B
Marzani S
(2009)
High energy resummation of Drell-Yan processes
in Nuclear Physics B
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
McComb W
(2015)
Energy transfer and dissipation in forced isotropic turbulence
in Physical Review E
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
Medeiros P
(2008)
Lorentzian Lie 3-algebras and their Bagger-Lambert moduli space
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Medeiros P
(2009)
Metric 3-Lie algebras for unitary Bagger-Lambert theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Medeiros P
(2009)
Half-BPS quotients in M-theory: ADE with a twist
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Medeiros P
(2008)
Metric Lie 3-algebras in Bagger-Lambert 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
Monteiro R
(2014)
Black holes and the double copy
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Monteiro R
(2014)
The kinematic algebras from the scattering equations
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Monteiro R
(2015)
Gravity as a double copy of gauge theory: from amplitudes to black holes
in International Journal of Modern Physics D
Mylonas D
(2014)
Non-geometric fluxes, quasi-Hopf twist deformations, and nonassociative quantum mechanics
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Mylonas D
(2014)
Nonassociative field theory on non-geometric spaces
in Fortschritte der Physik
Necco S
(2012)
Light quarks correlators in a mixed action setup
Nocera E
(2014)
A first unbiased global determination of polarized PDFs and their uncertainties
in Nuclear Physics B
Oliveira O
(2009)
Does the lattice zero-momentum gluon propagator for pure-gauge SU(3) Yang-Mills theory vanish in the infinite-volume limit?
in Physical Review D
Oliveira O
(2009)
Infrared gluon and ghost propagator exponents from lattice QCD
in The European Physical Journal C
Palmer S
(2014)
Self-dual string and higher instanton solutions
in Physical Review D
Palmer S
(2013)
Six-dimensional (1,0) superconformal models and higher gauge theory
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Palmer S
(2014)
The ABJM model is a higher gauge theory
in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
Papaefstathiou A
(2010)
Resummation of transverse energy in vector boson and Higgs boson production at hadron colliders
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Prochazka V
(2016)
N = 1 $$ \mathcal{N}=1 $$ Euler anomaly flow from dilaton effective action
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Prochazka V
(2014)
Gluon condensates from the Hamiltonian formalism
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Rea S
(2015)
The phase diagram of scalar field theory on the fuzzy disc
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ritter P
(2014)
Lie 2-algebra models
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Rojo J
(2015)
The PDF4LHC report on PDFs and LHC data: results from Run I and preparation for Run II
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
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