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
Konechny A
(2008)
Open string radiation from decaying FZZT branes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Medeiros P
(2009)
Metric 3-Lie algebras for unitary Bagger-Lambert theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Hassanain B
(2009)
On the possibility of light string resonances at the LHC and Tevatron from Randall-Sundrum throats
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2009)
Factorization constraints for soft anomalous dimensions in QCD scattering amplitudes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Jurco B
(2015)
Semistrict higher gauge theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Grégoire T
(2008)
A composite gluino at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Badger S
(2015)
One-loop triple collinear splitting amplitudes in QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Badger S
(2015)
A complete two-loop, five-gluon helicity amplitude in Yang-Mills theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Hiller G
(2014)
(A)symmetries of weak decays at and near the kinematic endpoint
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dolan B
(2009)
Dimensional reduction and vacuum structure of quiver gauge theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2009)
Center symmetry and the orientifold planar equivalence
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Rea S
(2015)
The phase diagram of scalar field theory on the fuzzy disc
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Papaefstathiou A
(2010)
Resummation of transverse energy in vector boson and Higgs boson production at hadron colliders
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Friedan D
(2013)
Precise lower bound on Monster brane boundary entropy
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
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2014)
Supersymmetry of hyperbolic monopoles
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abreu S
(2014)
From multiple unitarity cuts to the coproduct of Feynman integrals
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Craps B
(2013)
Strings in compact cosmological spaces
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Del Debbio L
(2013)
Space-time symmetries and the Yang-Mills gradient flow
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bagchi A
(2010)
GCA in 2d
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Blossier B
(2010)
HQET at order 1/m: III. Decay constants in the quenched approximation
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2013)
Parton distribution benchmarking with LHC data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2013)
The non-Abelian exponentiation theorem for multiple Wilson lines
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
Falcioni G
(2014)
Multiple gluon exchange webs
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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