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
Bastero-Gil M
(2014)
Cosmological fluctuations of a random field and radiation fluid
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bastero-Gil M
(2014)
Delaying the waterfall transition in warm hybrid inflation
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bastero-Gil M
(2009)
Hybrid quintessential inflation
in Physics Letters B
Bastero-Gil M
(2014)
Observational implications of mattergenesis during inflation
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bartrum S
(2015)
Fluctuation-dissipation dynamics of cosmological scalar fields
in Physical Review D
Bartrum S
(2014)
The importance of being warm (during inflation)
in Physics Letters B
Bartrum S
(2013)
Warming up for Planck
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Barnes G
(2015)
Nonassociative geometry in quasi-Hopf representation categories I: Bimodules and their internal homomorphisms
in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Ball R
(2010)
Fitting parton distribution data with multiplicative normalization uncertainties
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2013)
Parton distributions with LHC data
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball R
(2013)
Higgs production in gluon fusion beyond NNLO
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball R
(2013)
Parton distributions with QED corrections
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball R
(2015)
Charm in deep-inelastic scattering
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2013)
Theoretical issues in PDF determination and associated uncertainties
in Physics Letters B
Ball R
(2014)
Polarized parton distributions at an electron-ion collider
in Physics Letters B
Ball R
(2009)
Precision determination of electroweak parameters and the strange content of the proton from neutrino deep-inelastic scattering
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball R
(2008)
Resummation of hadroproduction cross-sections at high energy
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball R
(2009)
A determination of parton distributions with faithful uncertainty estimation
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball R
(2013)
Parton distribution benchmarking with LHC data
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
Ball R
(2015)
Parton distributions for the LHC run II
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2013)
Unbiased determination of polarized parton distributions and their uncertainties
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball P
(2008)
Distribution amplitudes of the ? b baryon in QCD
in Physics Letters B
Bali G
(2013)
Mesons in large-N QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Balasubramanian V
(2013)
A strongly coupled zig-zag transition
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Balasubramanian V
(2014)
Black holes, entanglement and random matrices
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
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
Bai Z
(2015)
Standard Model Prediction for Direct CP Violation in K?pp Decay.
in Physical review letters
Bagchi A
(2009)
Galilean conformal algebras and AdS/CFT
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bagchi A
(2013)
Tensionless strings and Galilean Conformal Algebra
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bagchi A
(2009)
Supersymmetric extension of Galilean conformal algebras
in Physical Review D
Bagchi A
(2009)
On representations and correlation functions of Galilean conformal algebras
in Physics Letters B
Bagchi A
(2013)
Holography of 3D flat cosmological horizons.
in Physical review letters
BAGCHI A
(2013)
HOLOGRAMS OF FLAT SPACE
in International Journal of Modern Physics D
Bagchi A
(2010)
GCA in 2d
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bagchi A
(2013)
Cosmic evolution from phase transition of three-dimensional flat space.
in Physical review letters
Badger S
(2013)
A two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitude in QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Badger S
(2014)
Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to five jet production at the LHC
in Physical Review D
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
Badger S
(2013)
NLO QCD corrections to multi-jet production at the LHC with a centre-of-mass energy of s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Badger S
(2013)
Numerical evaluation of virtual corrections to multi-jet production in massless QCD
in Computer Physics Communications
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
Badger S
(2014)
Multi-loop Integrand Reduction with Computational Algebraic Geometry
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Badger S
(2014)
Computation of multi-leg amplitudes with NJET
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Aschieri P
(2015)
Triproducts, nonassociative star products and geometry of R -flux string compactifications
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Arthur R
(2013)
Domain wall QCD with near-physical pions
in Physical Review D
Arthur R
(2013)
Note on Rome-Southampton renormalization with smeared gauge fields
in Physical Review D
Arthur R
(2013)
Monte Carlo integration with subtraction
in Computer Physics Communications
Aoki Y
(2008)
Proton lifetime bounds from chirally symmetric lattice QCD
in Physical Review D
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