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
Berera A
(2009)
Gauge fixing, BRS invariance and Ward identities for randomly stirred flows
in Nuclear Physics B
Berera A
(2009)
Warm inflation and its microphysical basis
in Reports on Progress in Physics
Bernardoni F
(2012)
B-physics from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET in two-flavour lattice QCD
Bernardoni F
(2013)
B-physics from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET in two-flavour lattice QCD
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Bernardoni F
(2011)
Light quark correlators in a mixed-action setup
Bernardoni F.
(2011)
Light quark correlators in a mixed-action setup
in Proceedings of Science
Bietenholz W
(2010)
Pion in a box
in Physics Letters B
Bietenholz W
(2010)
Tuning the strange quark mass in lattice simulations
in Physics Letters B
Binoth T
(2010)
A proposal for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs
in Computer Physics Communications
Binoth T
(2009)
golem95: A numerical program to calculate one-loop tensor integrals with up to six external legs
in Computer Physics Communications
Binoth T
(2010)
Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to p p ? b b ¯ b b ¯ + X at the LHC: The quark induced case
in Physics Letters B
Binoth T
(2010)
NLO QCD corrections to Z Z + jet production at hadron colliders
in Physics Letters B
Binoth T
(2008)
NLO QCD corrections to tri-boson production
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bjerrum-Bohr N
(2013)
Integrand oxidation and one-loop colour-dual numerators in $ \mathcal{N}=4 $ gauge theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Blossier B
(2010)
HQET at order 1/m: I. Non-perturbative parameters in the quenched approximation
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Blossier B
(2012)
Parameters of Heavy Quark Effective Theory from Nf=2 lattice QCD
Blossier B
(2010)
HQET at order 1/m: III. Decay constants in the quenched approximation
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Blossier B
(2010)
HQET at order 1/m: II. Spectroscopy in the quenched approximation
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
Blum T
(2015)
K ? p p ? I = 3 / 2 decay amplitude in the continuum limit
in Physical Review D
Boels R
(2013)
Colour-Kinematics duality for one-loop rational amplitudes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Boinepalli S
(2009)
Electromagnetic structure of decuplet baryons towards the chiral regime
in Physical Review D
Bonocore D
(2015)
A factorization approach to next-to-leading-power threshold logarithms
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bonocore D
(2015)
The method of regions and next-to-soft corrections in Drell-Yan production
in Physics Letters B
Bonvini M
(2014)
Updated Higgs cross section at approximate N 3 LO
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
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