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
Binoth T
(2009)
golem95: A numerical program to calculate one-loop tensor integrals with up to six external legs
in Computer Physics Communications
Sheikh-Jabbari M
(2009)
On half-BPS states of the ABJM theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gaberdiel M
(2009)
Conformal perturbation theory beyond the leading order
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Horgan R
(2009)
Moving nonrelativistic QCD for heavy-to-light form factors on the lattice
in Physical Review D
Bagchi A
(2009)
Supersymmetric extension of Galilean conformal algebras
in Physical Review D
Jackson B
(2009)
On the large-scale instability in interacting dark energy and dark matter fluids
in Physical Review D
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
Deformations of 3-algebras
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Iuliu-Lazaroiu C
(2009)
Generalized Berezin-Toeplitz quantization of Kähler supermanifolds
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi Einan
(2009)
Infrared singularities in QCD amplitudes
in Nuovo Cim.C
Gimon E
(2009)
Constituent model of extremal non-BPS black holes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Cirafici M
(2009)
Cohomological gauge theory, quiver matrix models and Donaldson-Thomas theory
in Nuclear Physics B
Chetyrkin K
(2009)
Charm and bottom quark masses: An update
in Physical Review D
Bagchi A
(2009)
On representations and correlation functions of Galilean conformal algebras
in Physics Letters B
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
On the maximal superalgebras of supersymmetric backgrounds
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Hollik W
(2009)
Supersymmetric Higgs bosons in weak boson fusion.
in Physical review letters
Braun V
(2009)
Nucleon distribution amplitudes and proton decay matrix elements on the lattice
in Physical Review D
Medeiros P
(2009)
Half-BPS quotients in M-theory: ADE with a twist
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kunduri H
(2009)
Static near-horizon geometries in five dimensions
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Ball R
(2009)
Precision determination of electroweak parameters and the strange content of the proton from neutrino deep-inelastic scattering
in Nuclear Physics B
Berera A
(2009)
Gauge fixing, BRS invariance and Ward identities for randomly stirred flows
in Nuclear Physics B
Debbio L
(2009)
The Bjorken sum rule with Monte Carlo and Neural Network techniques
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Oliveira O
(2009)
Does the lattice zero-momentum gluon propagator for pure-gauge SU(3) Yang-Mills theory vanish in the infinite-volume limit?
in Physical Review D
Kunduri H
(2009)
A classification of near-horizon geometries of extremal vacuum black holes
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Medeiros P
(2009)
Metric 3-Lie algebras for unitary Bagger-Lambert theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Berera A
(2009)
Warm inflation and its microphysical basis
in Reports on Progress in Physics
Hassanain B
(2009)
On the possibility of light string resonances at the LHC and Tevatron from Randall-Sundrum throats
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2009)
Factorization constraints for soft anomalous dimensions in QCD scattering amplitudes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Marzani S
(2009)
High energy resummation of Drell-Yan processes
in Nuclear Physics B
Cundy N
(2009)
Nonperturbative improvement of stout-smeared three-flavor clover fermions
in Physical Review D
Dolan B
(2009)
Dimensional reduction and vacuum structure of quiver gauge theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2009)
Center symmetry and the orientifold planar equivalence
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Hart A
(2009)
Automated generation of lattice QCD Feynman rules
in Computer Physics Communications
Ball R
(2009)
A determination of parton distributions with faithful uncertainty estimation
in Nuclear Physics B
Yamazaki T
(2009)
Nucleon form factors with 2 + 1 flavor dynamical domain-wall fermions
in Physical Review D
Szabo R
(2009)
Quantum gravity, field theory and signatures of noncommutative spacetime
in General Relativity and Gravitation
Göckeler M
(2009)
Non-perturbative renormalization of three-quark operators
in Nuclear Physics B
Del Debbio L
(2009)
Conformal versus confining scenario in SU(2) with adjoint fermions
in Physical Review D
Kiyo Y
(2009)
Reconstruction of heavy quark current correlators at
in Nuclear Physics B
De Medeiros P
(2009)
On the Lie-Algebraic Origin of Metric 3-Algebras
in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
Simplicity in the Faulkner construction
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Braun VM
(2009)
Electroproduction of the N*(1535) resonance at large momentum transfer.
in Physical review letters
Fischer A
(2009)
Duality covariant quantum field theory on noncommutative Minkowski space
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Cherkis S
(2009)
Superspace actions for multiple M2-branes, metric 3-algebras, and their classification
in Physical Review D
Bastero-Gil M
(2009)
Hybrid quintessential inflation
in Physics Letters B
Gleisberg T
(2009)
Event generation with SHERPA 1.1
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Boinepalli S
(2009)
Electromagnetic structure of decuplet baryons towards the chiral regime
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2010)
Infrared dynamics of minimal walking technicolor
in Physical Review D
Ball R
(2010)
Fitting parton distribution data with multiplicative normalization uncertainties
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Blossier B
(2010)
HQET at order 1/m: I. Non-perturbative parameters in the quenched approximation
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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