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.

Publications

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Bonvini M (2015) Parton distributions with threshold resummation in Journal of High Energy Physics

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BOYLE P (2014) LATTICE INPUT ON THE INCLUSIVE t DECAY V us PUZZLE in International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series

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Boyle P (2013) The kaon semileptonic form factor with near physical domain wall quarks in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Boyle P (2010) S parameter in QCD from domain wall fermions in Physical Review D

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Boyle P (2014) Combined NNLO lattice-continuum determination of L 10 r in Physical Review D

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Boyle PA (2013) Emerging understanding of the ?I=1/2 rule from lattice QCD. in Physical review letters

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Boyle PA (2008) Kl3 semileptonic form factor from (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD. in Physical review letters

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Brower R (2015) A novel approach to the study of conformality in the SU(3) theory with multiple flavors in Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics

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Bruzzo U (2015) Framed sheaves on projective stacks in Advances in Mathematics

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Bruzzo U (2014) $${\mathcal{N} = 2}$$ N = 2 Quiver Gauge Theories on A-type ALE Spaces in Letters in Mathematical Physics

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Brömmel D (2008) Spin structure of the pion. in Physical review letters

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Bullimore M (2014) The superconformal index and an elliptic algebra of surface defects in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Bytsenko A (2014) Quantum black holes, elliptic genera and spectral partition functions in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics

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Caputa P (2015) Quantum entanglement of localized excited states at finite temperature in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Caputa P (2015) Scrambling time from local perturbations of the eternal BTZ black hole 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