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
Binoth T
(2008)
NLO QCD corrections to tri-boson production
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Oliveira O
(2009)
Infrared gluon and ghost propagator exponents from lattice QCD
in The European Physical Journal C
Kilic C
(2009)
Searching for multijet resonances at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ellis J
(2009)
Measurement of CP violation in stop cascade decays at the LHC
in The European Physical Journal C
Dolan B
(2009)
Dimensional reduction, monopoles and dynamical symmetry breaking
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bagchi A
(2009)
Galilean conformal algebras and AdS/CFT
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Castro A
(2009)
Deconstructing the D0-D6 system
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Del Debbio L
(2009)
Mass corrections in string theory and lattice field theory
in Physical Review D
Kunduri H
(2009)
Uniqueness of near-horizon geometries of rotating extremal AdS 4 black holes
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
De Medeiros P
(2009)
Superpotentials for superconformal Chern-Simons theories from representation theory
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
| Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
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