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
Szabo R
(2010)
Instantons, Topological Strings, and Enumerative Geometry
in Advances in Mathematical Physics
Bruzzo U
(2015)
Framed sheaves on projective stacks
in Advances in Mathematics
Cirafici M
(2012)
Instanton Counting and Wall-Crossing for Orbifold Quivers
in Annales Henri Poincaré
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2013)
Symmetric backgrounds of type IIB supergravity
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Kunduri H
(2009)
Uniqueness of near-horizon geometries of rotating extremal AdS 4 black holes
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Figueras P
(2010)
On the uniqueness of extremal vacuum black holes
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Li C
(2013)
Uniqueness of extreme horizons in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
On the maximal superalgebras of supersymmetric backgrounds
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Kunduri H
(2009)
Static near-horizon geometries in five dimensions
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Kunduri H
(2014)
The first law of soliton and black hole mechanics in five dimensions
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Balasubramanian V
(2014)
Black holes, entanglement and random matrices
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Hickling A
(2015)
Null infinity and extremal horizons in AdS-CFT
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Hack T
(2015)
Supergeometry in Locally Covariant Quantum Field Theory
in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Sämann C
(2014)
Non-Abelian Tensor Multiplet Equations from Twistor Space
in Communications in Mathematical Physics
De Medeiros P
(2009)
On the Lie-Algebraic Origin of Metric 3-Algebras
in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2008)
A Geometric Construction of the Exceptional Lie Algebras F 4 and E 8
in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Binoth T
(2010)
A proposal for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs
in Computer Physics Communications
Binoth T
(2009)
golem95: A numerical program to calculate one-loop tensor integrals with up to six external legs
in Computer Physics Communications
Del Debbio L
(2014)
MCgrid: Projecting cross section calculations on grids
in Computer Physics Communications
Badger S
(2013)
Numerical evaluation of virtual corrections to multi-jet production in massless QCD
in Computer Physics Communications
Arthur R
(2013)
Monte Carlo integration with subtraction
in Computer Physics Communications
Hart A
(2009)
Automated generation of lattice QCD Feynman rules
in Computer Physics Communications
Alioli S
(2014)
Update of the Binoth Les Houches Accord for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs
in Computer Physics Communications
Johnson C
(2013)
Numerical determination of partial spectrum of Hermitian matrices using a Lánczos method with selective reorthogonalization
in Computer Physics Communications
Cirafici M
(2008)
Instantons and Donaldson-Thomas invariants
in Fortschritte der Physik
Mylonas D
(2014)
Nonassociative field theory on non-geometric spaces
in Fortschritte der Physik
Szabo R
(2009)
Quantum gravity, field theory and signatures of noncommutative spacetime
in General Relativity and Gravitation
Bytsenko A
(2014)
Quantum black holes, elliptic genera and spectral partition functions
in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
Palmer S
(2014)
The ABJM model is a higher gauge theory
in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
BASTERO-GIL M
(2012)
WARM INFLATION MODEL BUILDING
in International Journal of Modern Physics A
Monteiro R
(2015)
Gravity as a double copy of gauge theory: from amplitudes to black holes
in International Journal of Modern Physics D
BAGCHI A
(2013)
HOLOGRAMS OF FLAT SPACE
in International Journal of Modern Physics D
BOYLE P
(2014)
LATTICE INPUT ON THE INCLUSIVE t DECAY V us PUZZLE
in International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series
Dukes M
(2013)
Web worlds, web-colouring matrices, and web-mixing matrices
in Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Bastero-Gil M
(2013)
General dissipation coefficient in low-temperature warm inflation
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bastero-Gil M
(2014)
Theory of non-Gaussianity in warm inflation
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bartrum S
(2013)
Warming up for Planck
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bastero-Gil M
(2014)
Cosmological fluctuations of a random field and radiation fluid
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bastero-Gil M
(2014)
Delaying the waterfall transition in warm hybrid inflation
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bastero-Gil M
(2014)
Observational implications of mattergenesis during inflation
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Brower R
(2015)
A novel approach to the study of conformality in the SU(3) theory with multiple flavors
in Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics
Kunduri H
(2014)
Degenerate horizons, Einstein metrics, and Lens space bundles
in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Cirafici M
(2013)
Curve counting, instantons and McKay correspondences
in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Barnes G
(2015)
Nonassociative geometry in quasi-Hopf representation categories I: Bimodules and their internal homomorphisms
in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Collaboration R
(2008)
Use of stochastic sources for the lattice determination of light quark physics
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Badger S
(2013)
A two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitude in QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2010)
Fitting parton distribution data with multiplicative normalization uncertainties
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kilic C
(2009)
Searching for multijet resonances at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2008)
Higher representations on the lattice: perturbative studies
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
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