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
Berera A
(2009)
Gauge fixing, BRS invariance and Ward identities for randomly stirred flows
in Nuclear Physics B
Debbio L
(2009)
The Bjorken sum rule with Monte Carlo and Neural Network techniques
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Oliveira O
(2009)
Does the lattice zero-momentum gluon propagator for pure-gauge SU(3) Yang-Mills theory vanish in the infinite-volume limit?
in Physical Review D
Kunduri H
(2009)
A classification of near-horizon geometries of extremal vacuum black holes
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Medeiros P
(2009)
Metric 3-Lie algebras for unitary Bagger-Lambert theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Berera A
(2009)
Warm inflation and its microphysical basis
in Reports on Progress in Physics
Hassanain B
(2009)
On the possibility of light string resonances at the LHC and Tevatron from Randall-Sundrum throats
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2009)
Factorization constraints for soft anomalous dimensions in QCD scattering amplitudes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Marzani S
(2009)
High energy resummation of Drell-Yan processes
in Nuclear Physics B
Cundy N
(2009)
Nonperturbative improvement of stout-smeared three-flavor clover fermions
in Physical Review D
Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education |