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
(2014)
Covariant quiver gauge theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Cirafici M
(2013)
Curve counting, instantons and McKay correspondences
in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Castro A
(2009)
Deconstructing the D0-D6 system
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
Deformations of 3-algebras
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Kunduri H
(2014)
Degenerate horizons, Einstein metrics, and Lens space bundles
in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Bastero-Gil M
(2014)
Delaying the waterfall transition in warm hybrid inflation
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Shanahan PE
(2015)
Determination of the strange nucleon form factors.
in Physical review letters
Dolan B
(2009)
Dimensional reduction and vacuum structure of quiver gauge theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dolan B
(2009)
Dimensional reduction, monopoles and dynamical symmetry breaking
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Chambers A
(2015)
Disconnected contributions to the spin of the nucleon
in Physical Review D
Ball P
(2008)
Distribution amplitudes of the ? b baryon in QCD
in Physics Letters B
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
Arthur R
(2013)
Domain wall QCD with near-physical pions
in Physical Review D
Fischer A
(2009)
Duality covariant quantum field theory on noncommutative Minkowski space
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Guo FK
(2015)
Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron from 2+1 Flavor Lattice QCD.
in Physical review letters
Shanahan P
(2014)
Electric form factors of the octet baryons from lattice QCD and chiral extrapolation
in Physical Review D
Boinepalli S
(2009)
Electromagnetic structure of decuplet baryons towards the chiral regime
in Physical Review D
Braun VM
(2009)
Electroproduction of the N*(1535) resonance at large momentum transfer.
in Physical review letters
Boyle PA
(2013)
Emerging understanding of the ?I=1/2 rule from lattice QCD.
in Physical review letters
McComb WD
(2015)
Energy transfer and dissipation in forced isotropic turbulence.
in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
Konechny A
(2014)
Entropy of conformal perturbation defects
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Gleisberg T
(2009)
Event generation with SHERPA 1.1
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dimou M
(2013)
Exclusive chromomagnetism in heavy-to-light FCNCs
in Physical Review D
Johnstone M
(2013)
Extremal black holes and the first law of thermodynamics
in Physical Review D
Figueras P
(2008)
Extremal vacuum black holes in higher dimensions
in Physical Review D
Gardi E
(2009)
Factorization constraints for soft anomalous dimensions in QCD scattering amplitudes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Andersen J
(2010)
Factorization of the t -channel pole in quark-gluon scattering
in Physical Review D
Chambers A
(2014)
Feynman-Hellmann approach to the spin structure of hadrons
in Physical Review D
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
Ball R
(2010)
Fitting parton distribution data with multiplicative normalization uncertainties
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Antonelli M
(2010)
Flavor physics in the quark sector
in Physics Reports
Bartrum S
(2015)
Fluctuation-dissipation dynamics of cosmological scalar fields
in Physical Review D
Bruzzo U
(2015)
Framed sheaves on projective stacks
in Advances in Mathematics
Abreu S
(2014)
From multiple unitarity cuts to the coproduct of Feynman integrals
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lashkari N
(2014)
From state distinguishability to effective bulk locality
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2014)
From webs to polylogarithms
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Konechny A
(2015)
Fusion of conformal interfaces and bulk induced boundary RG flows
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bagchi A
(2009)
Galilean conformal algebras and AdS/CFT
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Berera A
(2009)
Gauge fixing, BRS invariance and Ward identities for randomly stirred flows
in Nuclear Physics B
Bagchi A
(2010)
GCA in 2d
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bastero-Gil M
(2013)
General dissipation coefficient in low-temperature warm inflation
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Lazaroiu C
(2008)
Generalized Berezin quantization, Bergman metrics and fuzzy laplacians
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Iuliu-Lazaroiu C
(2009)
Generalized Berezin-Toeplitz quantization of Kähler supermanifolds
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Prochazka V
(2014)
Gluon condensates from the Hamiltonian formalism
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Binoth T
(2009)
golem95: A numerical program to calculate one-loop tensor integrals with up to six external legs
in Computer Physics Communications
Friedan D
(2010)
Gradient formula for the beta function of 2D quantum field theory
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Monteiro R
(2015)
Gravity as a double copy of gauge theory: from amplitudes to black holes
in International Journal of Modern Physics D
SÄMANN C
(2013)
GROUPOIDS, LOOP SPACES AND QUANTIZATION OF 2-PLECTIC MANIFOLDS
in Reviews in Mathematical Physics
Medeiros P
(2009)
Half-BPS quotients in M-theory: ADE with a twist
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dimou M
(2013)
Heavy-to-light chromomagnetic matrix element
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
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