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
Fischer A
(2009)
Duality covariant quantum field theory on noncommutative Minkowski space
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Caputa P
(2015)
Quantum entanglement of localized excited states at finite temperature
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Collaborations R
(2008)
The pion's electromagnetic form factor at small momentum transfer in full lattice QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sheikh-Jabbari M
(2009)
On half-BPS states of the ABJM theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2014)
From webs to polylogarithms
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2014)
The homogeneity theorem for supergravity backgrounds II: the six-dimensional theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Badger S
(2013)
A two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitude in QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Castro A
(2009)
Deconstructing the D0-D6 system
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2009)
The Bjorken sum rule with Monte Carlo and Neural Network techniques
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Blossier B
(2012)
Parameters of heavy quark effective theory from N f = 2 lattice QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2013)
The non-Abelian exponentiation theorem for multiple Wilson lines
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2008)
Lorentzian Lie n-algebras
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Hustler N
(2015)
(M-theory-)Killing spinors on symmetric spaces
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Mylonas D
(2014)
Non-geometric fluxes, quasi-Hopf twist deformations, and nonassociative quantum mechanics
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Demessie G
(2015)
Higher Poincaré lemma and integrability
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Kunduri H
(2009)
A classification of near-horizon geometries of extremal vacuum black holes
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
Deformations of 3-algebras
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Lucietti J
(2008)
Asymptotic counting of BPS operators in superconformal field theories
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Palmer S
(2013)
Six-dimensional (1,0) superconformal models and higher gauge theory
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Friedan D
(2010)
Gradient formula for the beta function of 2D quantum field theory
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Gaberdiel M
(2009)
Conformal perturbation theory beyond the leading order
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Prochazka V
(2014)
Gluon condensates from the Hamiltonian formalism
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Konechny A
(2013)
Renormalization group defects for boundary flows
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Konechny A
(2014)
Entropy of conformal perturbation defects
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
Simplicity in the Faulkner construction
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
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