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
FLAG Working Group
(2014)
Review of lattice results concerning low-energy particle physics.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Papaefstathiou A
(2010)
Resummation of transverse energy in vector boson and Higgs boson production at hadron colliders
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Grazzini M
(2014)
Resummation of the transverse-energy distribution in Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ball R
(2008)
Resummation of hadroproduction cross-sections at high energy
in Nuclear Physics B
Rosa J
(2008)
Resonant particle production in branonium
in Physical Review D
Horsley R
(2015)
Reply to "Comment on 'Lattice determination of S - ? mixing'"
in Physical Review D
Constantinou M
(2015)
Renormalization of local quark-bilinear operators for N f = 3 flavors of stout link nonperturbative clover fermions
in Physical Review D
Konechny A
(2013)
Renormalization group defects for boundary flows
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Behr N
(2014)
Renormalization and redundancy in 2d quantum field theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Del Debbio L
(2014)
Renormalisation group, trace anomaly and Feynman-Hellmann theorem
in Physics Letters B
Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
Exploitation Route | Lots of ways |
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