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
Lechtenfeld O
(2008)
SU(3)-equivariant quiver gauge theories and nonabelian vortices
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lucietti J
(2013)
On the horizon instability of an extreme Reissner-Nordström black hole
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bagchi A
(2013)
Tensionless strings and Galilean Conformal Algebra
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Boels R
(2013)
Colour-Kinematics duality for one-loop rational amplitudes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Lashkari N
(2014)
From state distinguishability to effective bulk locality
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Alday L
(2013)
Surface defects, the superconformal index and q-deformed Yang-Mills
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2015)
Charm in deep-inelastic scattering
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ritter P
(2014)
Lie 2-algebra models
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Collaborations R
(2008)
The pion's electromagnetic form factor at small momentum transfer in full lattice QCD
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kiran K
(2014)
Strings vs. spins on the null orbifold
in Journal of High Energy Physics
| Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
| Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
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