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
Iuliu-Lazaroiu C
(2009)
Generalized Berezin-Toeplitz quantization of Kähler supermanifolds
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kiran K
(2014)
Strings vs. spins on the null orbifold
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Boyle P
(2015)
The kaon semileptonic form factor in N f = 2 + 1 domain wall lattice QCD with physical light quark masses
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Medeiros P
(2008)
Metric Lie 3-algebras in Bagger-Lambert theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kilic C
(2009)
Searching for multijet resonances at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Medeiros P
(2009)
Metric 3-Lie algebras for unitary Bagger-Lambert theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2014)
Supersymmetry of hyperbolic monopoles
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Andersen J
(2008)
Loop induced interference effects in Higgs boson plus two jet production at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Boyle P
(2013)
The kaon semileptonic form factor with near physical domain wall quarks
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Friedan D
(2013)
Precise lower bound on Monster brane boundary entropy
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2015)
Parton distributions for the LHC run II
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Grazzini M
(2014)
Resummation of the transverse-energy distribution in Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Grégoire T
(2008)
A composite gluino at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2015)
Charm in deep-inelastic scattering
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Gimon E
(2009)
Constituent model of extremal non-BPS black holes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Jurco B
(2015)
Semistrict higher gauge theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Badger S
(2015)
A complete two-loop, five-gluon helicity amplitude in Yang-Mills theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Balasubramanian V
(2013)
A strongly coupled zig-zag transition
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bagchi A
(2013)
Tensionless strings and Galilean Conformal Algebra
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ritter P
(2014)
Lie 2-algebra models
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lechtenfeld O
(2008)
SU(3)-equivariant quiver gauge theories and nonabelian vortices
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dixon L
(2010)
On soft singularities at three loops and beyond
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Rea S
(2015)
The phase diagram of scalar field theory on the fuzzy disc
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abreu S
(2014)
From multiple unitarity cuts to the coproduct of Feynman integrals
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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