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
Lyon J
(2013)
Isospin asymmetries in B ? ( K * , ? ) ? / l + l - and B ? K l + l - in and beyond the standard model
in Physical Review D
Bastero-Gil M
(2013)
Power spectrum generated during inflation
in Physical Review D
Simón J
(2010)
Small black holes versus horizonless solutions in AdS spacetime
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
Salgado P
(2014)
Topological gravity and transgression holography
in Physical Review D
Horgan R
(2009)
Moving nonrelativistic QCD for heavy-to-light form factors on the lattice
in Physical Review D
Bagchi A
(2009)
Supersymmetric extension of Galilean conformal algebras
in Physical Review D
Jackson B
(2009)
On the large-scale instability in interacting dark energy and dark matter fluids
in Physical Review D
Bursa F
(2010)
Mass anomalous dimension in SU(2) with two adjoint fermions
in Physical Review D
Dolan B
(2013)
Solitons and Yukawa couplings in nearly Kähler flux compactifications
in Physical Review D
Bartrum S
(2015)
Fluctuation-dissipation dynamics of cosmological scalar fields
in Physical Review D
Boyle P
(2012)
Neutral kaon mixing beyond the standard model with n f = 2 + 1 chiral fermions
in Physical Review D
Chambers A
(2014)
Feynman-Hellmann approach to the spin structure of hadrons
in Physical Review D
Chetyrkin K
(2009)
Charm and bottom quark masses: An update
in Physical Review D
Hambrock C
(2014)
B ? K * form factors from flavor data to QCD and back
in Physical Review D
Rosa J
(2008)
Resonant particle production in branonium
in Physical Review D
Cherkis S
(2008)
Multiple M2-branes and generalized 3-Lie algebras
in Physical Review D
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
Dittmaier S
(2008)
Charged-Higgs collider signals with or without flavor
in Physical Review D
Braun V
(2009)
Nucleon distribution amplitudes and proton decay matrix elements on the lattice
in Physical Review D
Detournay S
(2014)
Variational principle and one-point functions in three-dimensional flat space Einstein gravity
in Physical Review D
Chambers A
(2015)
Disconnected contributions to the spin of the nucleon
in Physical Review D
Arthur R
(2013)
Domain wall QCD with near-physical pions
in Physical Review D
Arthur R
(2013)
Note on Rome-Southampton renormalization with smeared gauge fields
in Physical Review D
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