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
Alioli S
(2014)
Update of the Binoth Les Houches Accord for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs
in Computer Physics Communications
Del Debbio L
(2014)
Conformal scaling and the size of m -hadrons
in Physical Review D
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2014)
Supersymmetry of hyperbolic monopoles
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
Mylonas D
(2014)
Nonassociative field theory on non-geometric spaces
in Fortschritte der Physik
Li C
(2014)
Three-dimensional black holes and descendants
in Physics Letters B
Badger S
(2014)
Multi-loop Integrand Reduction with Computational Algebraic Geometry
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Palmer S
(2014)
Self-dual string and higher instanton solutions
in Physical Review D
Bastero-Gil M
(2014)
Cosmological fluctuations of a random field and radiation fluid
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bruzzo U
(2014)
$${\mathcal{N} = 2}$$ N = 2 Quiver Gauge Theories on A-type ALE Spaces
in Letters in Mathematical Physics
| Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
| Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education |