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
Ball R
(2015)
Parton distributions for the LHC run II
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2013)
Unbiased determination of polarized parton distributions and their uncertainties
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball P
(2008)
Distribution amplitudes of the ? b baryon in QCD
in Physics Letters B
Bali G
(2013)
Mesons in large-N QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Balasubramanian V
(2013)
A strongly coupled zig-zag transition
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Balasubramanian V
(2014)
Black holes, entanglement and random matrices
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Balasubramanian V
(2010)
What is a chiral 2d CFT? And what does it have to do with extremal black holes?
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bai Z
(2015)
Standard Model Prediction for Direct CP Violation in K?pp Decay.
in Physical review letters
Bagchi A
(2009)
Galilean conformal algebras and AdS/CFT
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bagchi A
(2013)
Tensionless strings and Galilean Conformal Algebra
in Journal of High Energy Physics
| Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
| Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education |