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
Badger S
(2014)
Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to five jet production at the LHC
in Physical Review D
Kunduri H
(2014)
Degenerate horizons, Einstein metrics, and Lens space bundles
in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Del Debbio L
(2014)
Renormalisation group, trace anomaly and Feynman-Hellmann theorem
in Physics Letters B
Kunduri HK
(2014)
Supersymmetric black holes with lens-space topology.
in Physical review letters
Badger S
(2014)
Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to di-photon production in association with up to three jets at the Large Hadron Collider
in Journal of High Energy Physics
BOYLE P
(2014)
LATTICE INPUT ON THE INCLUSIVE t DECAY V us PUZZLE
in International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series
Szabo R
(2014)
Covariant quiver gauge theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
FLAG Working Group
(2014)
Review of lattice results concerning low-energy particle physics.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Monteiro R
(2014)
The kinematic algebras from the scattering equations
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Berera A
(2014)
Magnetic helicity and the evolution of decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence.
in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
| Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
| Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
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