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
Bagchi A
(2010)
GCA in 2d
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Rosa J
(2010)
The extremal black hole bomb
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2013)
Parton distribution benchmarking with LHC data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ali-Akbari M
(2008)
The relaxed three-algebras: their matrix representation and implications for multi M2-brane theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Binoth T
(2008)
NLO QCD corrections to tri-boson production
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bonvini M
(2015)
Parton distributions with threshold resummation
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bali G
(2013)
Mesons in large-N QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2008)
Quenched mesonic spectrum at large N
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gleisberg T
(2009)
Event generation with SHERPA 1.1
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Szabo R
(2014)
Covariant quiver gauge theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Prochazka V
(2016)
N = 1 $$ \mathcal{N}=1 $$ Euler anomaly flow from dilaton effective action
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Collaboration R
(2008)
Use of stochastic sources for the lattice determination of light quark physics
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sämann C
(2015)
Bootstrapping fuzzy scalar field theory
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
Bonocore D
(2015)
A factorization approach to next-to-leading-power threshold logarithms
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dolan B
(2009)
Dimensional reduction, monopoles and dynamical symmetry breaking
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Craps B
(2013)
Strings in compact cosmological spaces
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Andersen J
(2010)
Constructing all-order corrections to multi-jet rates
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dukes M
(2014)
Webs and posets
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bullimore M
(2014)
The superconformal index and an elliptic algebra of surface defects
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2009)
Center symmetry and the orientifold planar equivalence
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Monteiro R
(2014)
Black holes and the double copy
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dolan B
(2009)
Dimensional reduction and vacuum structure of quiver gauge theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Hiller G
(2014)
(A)symmetries of weak decays at and near the kinematic endpoint
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Medeiros P
(2008)
Lorentzian Lie 3-algebras and their Bagger-Lambert moduli space
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Fischer A
(2009)
Duality covariant quantum field theory on noncommutative Minkowski space
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Caputa P
(2015)
Quantum entanglement of localized excited states at finite temperature
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Collaborations R
(2008)
The pion's electromagnetic form factor at small momentum transfer in full lattice QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sheikh-Jabbari M
(2009)
On half-BPS states of the ABJM theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2014)
From webs to polylogarithms
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2014)
The homogeneity theorem for supergravity backgrounds II: the six-dimensional theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Badger S
(2013)
A two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitude in QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Castro A
(2009)
Deconstructing the D0-D6 system
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2009)
The Bjorken sum rule with Monte Carlo and Neural Network techniques
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Blossier B
(2012)
Parameters of heavy quark effective theory from N f = 2 lattice QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2013)
The non-Abelian exponentiation theorem for multiple Wilson lines
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2008)
Lorentzian Lie n-algebras
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Hustler N
(2015)
(M-theory-)Killing spinors on symmetric spaces
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Mylonas D
(2014)
Non-geometric fluxes, quasi-Hopf twist deformations, and nonassociative quantum mechanics
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Demessie G
(2015)
Higher Poincaré lemma and integrability
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Kunduri H
(2009)
A classification of near-horizon geometries of extremal vacuum black holes
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
Deformations of 3-algebras
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Lucietti J
(2008)
Asymptotic counting of BPS operators in superconformal field theories
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Palmer S
(2013)
Six-dimensional (1,0) superconformal models and higher gauge theory
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Friedan D
(2010)
Gradient formula for the beta function of 2D quantum field theory
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Gaberdiel M
(2009)
Conformal perturbation theory beyond the leading order
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Prochazka V
(2014)
Gluon condensates from the Hamiltonian formalism
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Konechny A
(2013)
Renormalization group defects for boundary flows
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Konechny A
(2014)
Entropy of conformal perturbation defects
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
Simplicity in the Faulkner construction
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
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