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
Szabo R
(2010)
Chern-Simons matrix models, two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and the Sutherland model
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
McComb W
(2015)
Self-organization and transition to turbulence in isotropic fluid motion driven by negative damping at low wavenumbers
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Bonvini M
(2014)
Updated Higgs cross section at approximate N 3 LO
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Rojo J
(2015)
The PDF4LHC report on PDFs and LHC data: results from Run I and preparation for Run II
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Aschieri P
(2015)
Triproducts, nonassociative star products and geometry of R -flux string compactifications
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Debbio L
(2015)
Recent progress in simulations of gauge theories on the lattice
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
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
Benini M
(2015)
Homotopy Colimits and Global Observables in Abelian Gauge Theory
in Letters in Mathematical Physics
Sämann C
(2014)
Six-Dimensional Superconformal Field Theories from Principal 3-Bundles over Twistor Space
in Letters in Mathematical Physics
Bruzzo U
(2014)
$${\mathcal{N} = 2}$$ N = 2 Quiver Gauge Theories on A-type ALE Spaces
in Letters in Mathematical Physics
Kunduri HK
(2013)
Classification of Near-Horizon Geometries of Extremal Black Holes.
in Living reviews in relativity
Gardi E
(2008)
A dispersive approach to Sudakov resummation
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball R
(2013)
Parton distributions with LHC data
in Nuclear Physics B
Nocera E
(2014)
A first unbiased global determination of polarized PDFs and their uncertainties
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball R
(2013)
Higgs production in gluon fusion beyond NNLO
in Nuclear Physics B
Szabo R
(2013)
q-deformations of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory: Classification, categorification and refinement
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball R
(2013)
Parton distributions with QED corrections
in Nuclear Physics B
Cundy N
(2011)
A lattice Dirac operator for QCD with light dynamical quarks
in Nuclear Physics B
Cirafici M
(2009)
Cohomological gauge theory, quiver matrix models and Donaldson-Thomas theory
in Nuclear Physics 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
Berera A
(2009)
Gauge fixing, BRS invariance and Ward identities for randomly stirred flows
in Nuclear Physics B
Altarelli G
(2008)
Small x resummation with quarks: Deep-inelastic scattering
in Nuclear Physics B
Ball R
(2008)
Resummation of hadroproduction cross-sections at high energy
in Nuclear Physics B
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