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
Bursa F
(2010)
Mass anomalous dimension in SU(2) with two adjoint fermions
in Physical Review D
Bytsenko A
(2014)
Quantum black holes, elliptic genera and spectral partition functions
in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
Cacciari M
(2016)
A note on the fate of the Landau-Yang theorem in non-Abelian gauge theories
in Physics Letters B
Caputa P
(2015)
Quantum entanglement of localized excited states at finite temperature
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Caputa P
(2015)
Scrambling time from local perturbations of the eternal BTZ black hole
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Castro A
(2009)
Deconstructing the D0-D6 system
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Chambers A
(2014)
Feynman-Hellmann approach to the spin structure of hadrons
in Physical Review D
Chambers A
(2015)
Disconnected contributions to the spin of the nucleon
in Physical Review D
Chambers A
(2015)
A novel approach to nonperturbative renormalization of singlet and nonsinglet lattice operators
in Physics Letters B
Cherkis S
(2008)
Multiple M2-branes and generalized 3-Lie algebras
in Physical Review D
| Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
| Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
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