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
Figueroa-O'Farrill J
(2009)
Simplicity in the Faulkner construction
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Braun VM
(2009)
Electroproduction of the N*(1535) resonance at large momentum transfer.
in Physical review letters
Fischer A
(2009)
Duality covariant quantum field theory on noncommutative Minkowski space
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Cherkis S
(2009)
Superspace actions for multiple M2-branes, metric 3-algebras, and their classification
in Physical Review D
Bastero-Gil M
(2009)
Hybrid quintessential inflation
in Physics Letters B
Gleisberg T
(2009)
Event generation with SHERPA 1.1
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Boinepalli S
(2009)
Electromagnetic structure of decuplet baryons towards the chiral regime
in Physical Review D
Del Debbio L
(2010)
Infrared dynamics of minimal walking technicolor
in Physical Review D
Ball R
(2010)
Fitting parton distribution data with multiplicative normalization uncertainties
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Blossier B
(2010)
HQET at order 1/m: I. Non-perturbative parameters in the quenched approximation
in Journal of High Energy Physics
| Description | Lots of interesting Particle Physics |
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