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
Dukes M
(2014)
Webs and posets
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dukes M
(2013)
Web worlds, web-colouring matrices, and web-mixing matrices
in Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Ellis J
(2009)
Measurement of CP violation in stop cascade decays at the LHC
in The European Physical Journal C
Falcioni G
(2014)
Multiple gluon exchange webs
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueras P
(2010)
On the uniqueness of extremal vacuum black holes
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Figueras P
(2008)
Extremal vacuum black holes in higher dimensions
in Physical Review D
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2013)
Symmetric backgrounds of type IIB supergravity
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
Deformations of 3-algebras
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2008)
Lorentzian Lie n-algebras
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2014)
The homogeneity theorem for supergravity backgrounds II: the six-dimensional theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
On the maximal superalgebras of supersymmetric backgrounds
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2013)
Symmetric M-theory backgrounds
in Open Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2014)
Supersymmetry of hyperbolic monopoles
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
Simplicity in the Faulkner construction
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2008)
A Geometric Construction of the Exceptional Lie Algebras F 4 and E 8
in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Fischer A
(2009)
Duality covariant quantum field theory on noncommutative Minkowski space
in Journal of High Energy Physics
FLAG Working Group
(2014)
Review of lattice results concerning low-energy particle physics.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Flynn J
(2015)
B ? p l ? and B s ? K l ? form factors and | V u b | from 2 + 1 -flavor lattice QCD with domain-wall light quarks and relativistic heavy quarks
in Physical Review D
Friedan D
(2010)
Gradient formula for the beta function of 2D quantum field theory
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Friedan D
(2013)
Precise lower bound on Monster brane boundary entropy
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gaberdiel M
(2009)
Conformal perturbation theory beyond the leading order
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Gardi E
(2008)
A dispersive approach to Sudakov resummation
in Nuclear Physics B
Gardi E
(2010)
Webs in multiparton scattering using the replica trick
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gardi E
(2014)
From webs to polylogarithms
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
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