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
Boyle P
(2013)
The kaon semileptonic form factor with near physical domain wall quarks
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Prochazka V
(2016)
N = 1 $$ \mathcal{N}=1 $$ Euler anomaly flow from dilaton effective action
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Szabo R
(2014)
Covariant quiver gauge theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sheikh-Jabbari M
(2009)
On half-BPS states of the ABJM theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Monteiro R
(2014)
The kinematic algebras from the scattering equations
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Andersen J
(2008)
Loop induced interference effects in Higgs boson plus two jet production at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kökényesi Z
(2013)
Refined Chern-Simons theory and (q, t)-deformed Yang-Mills theory: Semi-classical expansion and planar limit
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Caputa P
(2015)
Quantum entanglement of localized excited states at finite temperature
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bullimore M
(2014)
The superconformal index and an elliptic algebra of surface defects
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Medeiros P
(2008)
Metric Lie 3-algebras in Bagger-Lambert theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education |