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
Debbio L
(2009)
The Bjorken sum rule with Monte Carlo and Neural Network techniques
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2009)
Center symmetry and the orientifold planar equivalence
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2015)
Recent progress in simulations of gauge theories on the lattice
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
DeBellis J
(2013)
Reduced Chern-Simons quiver theories and cohomological 3-algebra models
in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Del Debbio L
(2010)
Infrared dynamics of minimal walking technicolor
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2014)
Renormalisation group, trace anomaly and Feynman-Hellmann theorem
in Physics Letters B
Del Debbio L
(2009)
Mass corrections in string theory and lattice field theory
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2014)
MCgrid: Projecting cross section calculations on grids
in Computer Physics Communications
Del Debbio L
(2013)
The transition to a layered phase in the anisotropic five-dimensional SU(2) Yang-Mills theory
in Physics Letters B
Del Debbio L
(2010)
Mesonic spectroscopy of minimal walking technicolor
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2010)
Higher representations on the lattice: Numerical simulations, SU(2) with adjoint fermions
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2009)
Conformal versus confining scenario in SU(2) with adjoint fermions
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2014)
Conformal scaling and the size of m -hadrons
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2013)
Space-time symmetries and the Yang-Mills gradient flow
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Del Debbio L
(2010)
Hyperscaling relations in mass-deformed conformal gauge theories
in Physical Review D
Demessie G
(2015)
Higher Poincaré lemma and integrability
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Detournay S
(2014)
Variational principle and one-point functions in three-dimensional flat space Einstein gravity
in Physical Review D
Dimou M
(2013)
Heavy-to-light chromomagnetic matrix element
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Dimou M
(2013)
Exclusive chromomagnetism in heavy-to-light FCNCs
in Physical Review D
Dissertori G
(2008)
First determination of the strong coupling constant using NNLO predictions for hadronic event shapes in e + e - annihilations
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dittmaier S
(2008)
Charged-Higgs collider signals with or without flavor
in Physical Review D
Dixon L
(2010)
On soft singularities at three loops and beyond
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dolan B
(2009)
Dimensional reduction, monopoles and dynamical symmetry breaking
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dolan B
(2013)
Solitons and Yukawa couplings in nearly Kähler flux compactifications
in Physical Review D
Dolan B
(2009)
Dimensional reduction and vacuum structure of quiver gauge theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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