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
Dimou M
(2013)
Heavy-to-light chromomagnetic matrix element
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Detournay S
(2014)
Variational principle and one-point functions in three-dimensional flat space Einstein gravity
in Physical Review D
Demessie G
(2015)
Higher Poincaré lemma and integrability
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Del Debbio L
(2009)
Mass corrections in string theory and lattice field theory
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2014)
Conformal scaling and the size of m -hadrons
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2010)
Mesonic spectroscopy of minimal walking technicolor
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2014)
MCgrid: Projecting cross section calculations on grids
in Computer Physics Communications
Del Debbio L
(2013)
Space-time symmetries and the Yang-Mills gradient flow
in Journal of High Energy 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)
Conformal versus confining scenario in SU(2) with adjoint fermions
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
(2010)
Hyperscaling relations in mass-deformed conformal gauge theories
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2013)
The transition to a layered phase in the anisotropic five-dimensional SU(2) Yang-Mills theory
in Physics Letters B
DeBellis J
(2013)
Reduced Chern-Simons quiver theories and cohomological 3-algebra models
in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Debbio L
(2008)
Higher representations on the lattice: perturbative studies
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
Debbio L
(2008)
Quenched mesonic spectrum at large N
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Debbio L
(2009)
Center symmetry and the orientifold planar equivalence
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
De Medeiros P
(2009)
Superpotentials for superconformal Chern-Simons theories from representation theory
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
De Medeiros P
(2009)
On the Lie-Algebraic Origin of Metric 3-Algebras
in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Damgaard PH
(2013)
Constraints on new physics from baryogenesis and Large Hadron Collider data.
in Physical review letters
Cundy N
(2009)
Nonperturbative improvement of stout-smeared three-flavor clover fermions
in Physical Review D
Cundy N
(2011)
A lattice Dirac operator for QCD with light dynamical quarks
in Nuclear Physics B
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