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

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

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

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

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Bonocore D (2015) A factorization approach to next-to-leading-power threshold logarithms in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Boels R (2013) Colour-Kinematics duality for one-loop rational amplitudes in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Blossier B (2010) HQET at order 1/m: II. Spectroscopy in the quenched approximation in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Blossier B (2010) HQET at order 1/m: I. Non-perturbative parameters in the quenched approximation in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Blossier B (2010) HQET at order 1/m: III. Decay constants in the quenched approximation in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Blossier B (2012) Parameters of heavy quark effective theory from N f = 2 lattice QCD in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Binoth T (2008) NLO QCD corrections to tri-boson production in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Bietenholz W (2010) Pion in a box in Physics Letters B

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Bietenholz W (2010) Tuning the strange quark mass in lattice simulations in Physics Letters B

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Bernardoni F. (2011) Light quark correlators in a mixed-action setup in Proceedings of Science

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Bernardoni F (2013) B-physics from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET in two-flavour lattice QCD in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements

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Berera A (2014) Magnetic helicity and the evolution of decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

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Berera A (2009) Warm inflation and its microphysical basis in Reports on Progress in Physics

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Benini M (2015) Homotopy Colimits and Global Observables in Abelian Gauge Theory in Letters in Mathematical Physics

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Behr N (2014) Renormalization and redundancy in 2d quantum field theories in Journal of High Energy Physics

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BASTERO-GIL M (2012) WARM INFLATION MODEL BUILDING in International Journal of Modern Physics A

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Bastero-Gil M (2013) Power spectrum generated during inflation in Physical Review D

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Bastero-Gil M (2014) Observational implications of mattergenesis during inflation in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Bastero-Gil M (2014) Cosmological fluctuations of a random field and radiation fluid in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

 
Description Lots of interesting Particle Physics
Exploitation Route Lots of ways
Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education