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
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
Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education |