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
Sämann C
(2014)
Six-Dimensional Superconformal Field Theories from Principal 3-Bundles over Twistor Space
in Letters in Mathematical Physics
Simón J
(2010)
Small black holes versus horizonless solutions in AdS spacetime
in Physical Review D
Altarelli G
(2008)
Small x resummation with quarks: Deep-inelastic scattering
in Nuclear Physics B
Dolan B
(2013)
Solitons and Yukawa couplings in nearly Kähler flux compactifications
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2013)
Space-time symmetries and the Yang-Mills gradient flow
in Journal of High Energy Physics
McComb WD
(2014)
Spectral analysis of structure functions and their scaling exponents in forced isotropic turbulence.
in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
Brömmel D
(2008)
Spin structure of the pion.
in Physical review letters
Afshar H
(2013)
Spin-3 gravity in three-dimensional flat space.
in Physical review letters
Bai Z
(2015)
Standard Model Prediction for Direct CP Violation in K?pp Decay.
in Physical review letters
Kunduri H
(2009)
Static near-horizon geometries in five dimensions
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education |