Particle Physics Phenomenology in the Standard Model and Beyond (2008-2013)JF
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Particle physics is the branch of physics concerned with the behaviour of matter at the smallest distances. Over the years, physicists have developed the 'Standard Model' of particle physics. It is a very elegant theory capable of describing pretty much all known phenomena (at least in principle) with the exception of gravity and it has been tested to remarkable precision in equally remarkable experiments based at the world's 'atom smashers' (a.k.a. particle accelerators). However, we know that the Standard Model is flawed and so we expect there to be physics 'Beyond the Standard Model'. This research project is concerned with identifying possible sources of new physics and exploring how it might manifest itself in experiments. This study is very timely because the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will soon start up at CERN, the European Centre for Particle Physics. This is the most powerful accelerator ever built and it is seriously expected to push the Standard Model to breaking point. QCD is that part of the Standard Model concerned with the strong nuclear force. It is rich in interesting physics and not so well understood as the rest of the Standard Model. We are experts in its study and will explore various aspects of QCD in this project. Moreover, QCD effects are almost always present in particle collisions and they must be understood if we are to make the most of our experiments. We will pay close attention to understanding the role of QCD when searching for new physics. The Big Bang model of the Universe implies there was a time, very early in the Universe's history, when particle physics played a crucial role in the evolution of the Universe. We will devote time in this project to exploring the particle physics of the Early Universe.
Organisations
Publications
Dev P
(2013)
125 GeV Higgs boson and the type-II seesaw model
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Winstanley E
(2016)
1st Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics
Bomark N
(2014)
3.5 keV x-ray line from decaying gravitino dark matter
in Physical Review D
Bomark N
(2015)
A light NMSSM pseudoscalar Higgs boson at the LHC redux
in Journal of High Energy Physics
McDonald J
(2015)
A minimal sub-Planckian axion inflation model with large tensor-to-scalar ratio
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Benone C
(2014)
Absorption of a massive scalar field by a charged black hole
in Physical Review D
Macedo C
(2013)
Absorption of planar massless scalar waves by Kerr black holes
in Physical Review D
Pilaftsis A
(2013)
Advances in Leptogenesis
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Choudhury S
(2014)
An accurate bound on tensor-to-scalar ratio and the scale of inflation
in Nuclear Physics B
PILAFTSIS A
(2013)
ANOMALOUS FERMION MASS GENERATION AT THREE LOOPS
in Modern Physics Letters A
Biswas T
(2014)
Atick-Witten Hagedorn conjecture, near scale-invariant matter and blue-tilted gravity power spectrum
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Roszkowski L
(2015)
Axino dark matter with low reheating temperature
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Feng W
(2013)
Baryogenesis from dark matter
in Physical Review D
Balázs C
(2014)
Baryogenesis, dark matter and inflation in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model
in Journal of High Energy Physics
McDonald J
(2013)
Baryon-to-dark matter ratio from random angular fields
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
ROSZKOWSKI L
(2013)
BAYESIAN IMPLICATIONS OF COLLIDER AND SUSY DARK MATTER DIRECT AND INDIRECT SEARCHES
in Modern Physics Letters A
Lyth D
(2014)
BICEP2, the curvature perturbation and supersymmetry
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Ashoorioon A
(2014)
Black holes as beads on cosmic strings
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Altheimer A
(2014)
Boosted objects and jet substructure at the LHC. Report of BOOST2012, held at IFIC Valencia, 23rd-27th of July 2012
in The European Physical Journal C
Chatterjee A
(2015)
Bound on largest r ? 0.1 from sub-Planckian excursions of inflaton
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Dolan S
(2015)
Bound states of the Dirac equation on Kerr spacetime
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Donnachie A
(2014)
Central soft production of hadrons in pp collisions
in International Journal of Modern Physics A
Ilakovac A
(2013)
Charged lepton flavor violation in supersymmetric low-scale seesaw models
in Physical Review D
Salvio A
(2015)
Classical and quantum initial conditions for Higgs inflation
in Physics Letters B
Battye R
(2013)
Classically isospinning Hopf solitons
in Physical Review D
Battye R
(2014)
Classically isospinning Skyrmion solutions
in Physical Review D
Battye R
(2012)
Classically spinning and isospinning solitons
Mazumdar A
(2013)
CMB dipole asymmetry from a fast roll phase
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Kowalska K
(2013)
Constrained next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model with a 126 GeV Higgs boson: A global analysis
in Physical Review D
Choudhury S
(2014)
Constraining $ \mathcal{N} $ = 1 supergravity inflationary framework with non-minimal Kähler operators
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Seymour M
(2013)
Constraining MPI models using s eff and recent Tevatron and LHC Underlying Event data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dev P
(2013)
Constraining neutrino mass from neutrinoless double beta decay
in Physical Review D
Dev P
(2014)
Constraining non-thermal and thermal properties of Dark Matter
in Frontiers in Physics
Van De Bruck C
(2013)
Constraints on nonconformal couplings from the properties of the cosmic microwave background radiation.
in Physical review letters
Dimopoulos K
(2013)
Correlated curvature perturbations and magnetogenesis from the GUT gauge bosons
in Astroparticle Physics
Bhupal Dev P
(2015)
Corrigendum to "Flavour covariant transport equations: An application to resonant leptogenesis" [Nucl. Phys. B 886 (2014) 569]
in Nuclear Physics B
Donnachie A
(2015)
Corrigendum to "pp and p ¯ p total cross sections and elastic scattering" [Phys. Lett. B 727 (4-5) (2013) 500-505]
in Physics Letters B
Chialva D
(2015)
Cosmological implications of quantum corrections and higher-derivative extension
in Modern Physics Letters A
Wang L
(2013)
Cosmological perturbations from a spectator field during inflation
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Biswas T
(2013)
Cosmological perturbations from statistical thermal fluctuations
in Physical Review D
Ángeles-Martínez R
(2015)
Coulomb gluons and the ordering variable
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lee J
(2013)
CPsuperH2.3: An updated tool for phenomenology in the MSSM with explicit CP violation
in Computer Physics Communications
Mazumdar A
(2013)
Creating perturbations from a decaying field during inflation
in Physical Review D
Fowlie A
(2013)
Dark matter and collider signatures of the MSSM
in Physical Review D
Doddato F
(2013)
Dark matter gravitinos and baryons via Q-ball decay in the gauge-mediated MSSM
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Baer H
(2015)
Dark matter production in the early Universe: Beyond the thermal WIMP paradigm
in Physics Reports
Pilaftsis A
(2016)
Diphoton signatures from heavy axion decays at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
in Physical Review D
Ambrus V
(2014)
Dirac fermions on an anti-de Sitter background
Das A
(2014)
Direct bounds on electroweak scale pseudo-Dirac neutrinos from s = 8 TeV LHC data
in Physics Letters B
De Bruck C
(2015)
Disformal couplings and the dark sector of the universe
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Description | Progress on many fronts towards a better understanding of the universe, by developing theoretical models constrained by data from the LHC and cosmology experiments such as Planck. |
Exploitation Route | Other scientists will develop their research in light of our publications. |
Sectors | Energy |
Description | Researchers supported by this award have been very active in outreach activities for the general public, schools and scientists from other fields |
First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
Sector | Education |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |