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
Bruzzo U
(2014)
$${\mathcal{N} = 2}$$ N = 2 Quiver Gauge Theories on A-type ALE Spaces
in Letters in Mathematical Physics
Hiller G
(2014)
(A)symmetries of weak decays at and near the kinematic endpoint
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Hustler N
(2015)
(M-theory-)Killing spinors on symmetric spaces
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Kunduri H
(2009)
A classification of near-horizon geometries of extremal vacuum black holes
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Badger S
(2015)
A complete two-loop, five-gluon helicity amplitude in Yang-Mills theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Grégoire T
(2008)
A composite gluino at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2009)
A determination of parton distributions with faithful uncertainty estimation
in Nuclear Physics B
Gardi E
(2008)
A dispersive approach to Sudakov resummation
in Nuclear Physics B
Bonocore D
(2015)
A factorization approach to next-to-leading-power threshold logarithms
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Nocera E
(2014)
A first unbiased global determination of polarized PDFs and their uncertainties
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball R
(2010)
A first unbiased global NLO determination of parton distributions and their uncertainties
in Nuclear Physics B
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2008)
A Geometric Construction of the Exceptional Lie Algebras F 4 and E 8
in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Cundy N
(2011)
A lattice Dirac operator for QCD with light dynamical quarks
in Nuclear Physics B
Cacciari M
(2016)
A note on the fate of the Landau-Yang theorem in non-Abelian gauge theories
in Physics Letters B
Chambers A
(2015)
A novel approach to nonperturbative renormalization of singlet and nonsinglet lattice operators
in Physics Letters B
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
Binoth T
(2010)
A proposal for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs
in Computer Physics Communications
Balasubramanian V
(2013)
A strongly coupled zig-zag transition
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Badger S
(2013)
A two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitude in QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lucietti J
(2008)
Asymptotic counting of BPS operators in superconformal field theories
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Hart A
(2009)
Automated generation of lattice QCD Feynman rules
in Computer Physics Communications
Christ N
(2015)
B -meson decay constants from 2 + 1 -flavor lattice QCD with domain-wall light quarks and relativistic heavy quarks
in Physical Review D
Hambrock C
(2014)
B ? K * form factors from flavor data to QCD and back
in Physical Review D
Flynn J
(2015)
B ? p l ? and B s ? K l ? form factors and | V u b | from 2 + 1 -flavor lattice QCD with domain-wall light quarks and relativistic heavy quarks
in Physical Review D
Bernardoni F
(2012)
B-physics from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET in two-flavour lattice QCD
Bernardoni F
(2013)
B-physics from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET in two-flavour lattice QCD
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Kunduri H
(2014)
Black hole non-uniqueness via spacetime topology in five dimensions
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Monteiro R
(2014)
Black holes and the double copy
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Balasubramanian V
(2014)
Black holes, entanglement and random matrices
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Sämann C
(2015)
Bootstrapping fuzzy scalar field theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2009)
Center symmetry and the orientifold planar equivalence
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Shanahan P
(2015)
Charge symmetry violation in the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon
in Physical Review D
Dittmaier S
(2008)
Charged-Higgs collider signals with or without flavor
in Physical Review D
Chetyrkin K
(2009)
Charm and bottom quark masses: An update
in Physical Review D
Ball R
(2015)
Charm in deep-inelastic scattering
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Szabo R
(2010)
Chern-Simons matrix models, two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and the Sutherland model
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Kunduri HK
(2013)
Classification of Near-Horizon Geometries of Extremal Black Holes.
in Living reviews in relativity
Cirafici M
(2009)
Cohomological gauge theory, quiver matrix models and Donaldson-Thomas theory
in Nuclear Physics B
Boels R
(2013)
Colour-Kinematics duality for one-loop rational amplitudes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Boyle P
(2014)
Combined NNLO lattice-continuum determination of L 10 r
in Physical Review D
Badger S
(2014)
Computation of multi-leg amplitudes with NJET
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Gaberdiel M
(2009)
Conformal perturbation theory beyond the leading order
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Del Debbio L
(2014)
Conformal scaling and the size of m -hadrons
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2009)
Conformal versus confining scenario in SU(2) with adjoint fermions
in Physical Review D
Gimon E
(2009)
Constituent model of extremal non-BPS black holes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Damgaard PH
(2013)
Constraints on new physics from baryogenesis and Large Hadron Collider data.
in Physical review letters
Andersen J
(2010)
Constructing all-order corrections to multi-jet rates
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bagchi A
(2013)
Cosmic evolution from phase transition of three-dimensional flat space.
in Physical review letters
Bastero-Gil M
(2014)
Cosmological fluctuations of a random field and radiation fluid
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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