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