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
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
Aoki Y
(2008)
Proton lifetime bounds from chirally symmetric lattice QCD
in Physical Review D
Cirafici M
(2008)
Instantons and Donaldson-Thomas invariants
in Fortschritte der Physik
Hooper D
(2008)
Neutralino dark matter and trilepton searches in the MSSM
in Physical Review D
Medeiros P
(2008)
Lorentzian Lie 3-algebras and their Bagger-Lambert moduli space
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lazaroiu C
(2008)
Generalized Berezin quantization, Bergman metrics and fuzzy laplacians
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2008)
Quenched mesonic spectrum at large N
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Binoth T
(2008)
NLO QCD corrections to tri-boson production
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
| Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
| Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
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