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
Blossier B
(2010)
HQET at order 1/m: III. Decay constants in the quenched approximation
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bietenholz W
(2010)
Tuning the strange quark mass in lattice simulations
in Physics Letters B
Blossier B
(2010)
HQET at order 1/m: II. Spectroscopy in the quenched approximation
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Del Debbio L
(2010)
Hyperscaling relations in mass-deformed conformal gauge theories
in Physical Review D
Dixon L
(2010)
On soft singularities at three loops and beyond
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2010)
A first unbiased global NLO determination of parton distributions and their uncertainties
in Nuclear Physics B
Balasubramanian V
(2010)
What is a chiral 2d CFT? And what does it have to do with extremal black holes?
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bernardoni F.
(2011)
Light quark correlators in a mixed-action setup
in Proceedings of Science
Boyle P.A.
(2011)
Non-perturbative running and renormalization of kaon four-quark operators with nf = 2+1 domain-wall fermions
in Proceedings of Science
Cundy N
(2011)
A lattice Dirac operator for QCD with light dynamical quarks
in Nuclear Physics B
Bernardoni F
(2011)
Light quark correlators in a mixed-action setup
BASTERO-GIL M
(2012)
WARM INFLATION MODEL BUILDING
in International Journal of Modern Physics A
Garron N.
(2012)
Weak Matrix Elements of beyond the Standard Model ?s = 2 four-quark operators from nf = 2+1 Domain-Wall fermions
in Proceedings of Science
Necco S
(2012)
Light quarks correlators in a mixed action setup
Boyle P
(2012)
Neutral kaon mixing beyond the standard model with n f = 2 + 1 chiral fermions
in Physical Review D
Blossier B
(2012)
Parameters of Heavy Quark Effective Theory from Nf=2 lattice QCD
Cirafici M
(2012)
Instanton Counting and Wall-Crossing for Orbifold Quivers
in Annales Henri Poincaré
Bernardoni F
(2012)
B-physics from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET in two-flavour lattice QCD
Blossier B
(2012)
Parameters of heavy quark effective theory from N f = 2 lattice QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Badger S
(2013)
A two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitude in QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2013)
Symmetric backgrounds of type IIB supergravity
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Ball R
(2013)
Parton distributions with LHC data
in Nuclear Physics B
Ivanova T
(2013)
Orbifold instantons, moment maps, and Yang-Mills theory with sources
in Physical Review D
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