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
Horsley R
(2014)
Nucleon axial charge and pion decay constant from two-flavor lattice QCD
in Physics Letters B
Horsley R
(2015)
Reply to "Comment on 'Lattice determination of S - ? mixing'"
in Physical Review D
Hustler N
(2015)
(M-theory-)Killing spinors on symmetric spaces
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Iuliu-Lazaroiu C
(2009)
Generalized Berezin-Toeplitz quantization of Kähler supermanifolds
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Ivanova T
(2013)
Orbifold instantons, moment maps, and Yang-Mills theory with sources
in Physical Review D
Jackson B
(2009)
On the large-scale instability in interacting dark energy and dark matter fluids
in Physical Review D
Johnson C
(2013)
Numerical determination of partial spectrum of Hermitian matrices using a Lánczos method with selective reorthogonalization
in Computer Physics Communications
Johnstone M
(2013)
Extremal black holes and the first law of thermodynamics
in Physical Review D
Johnstone M
(2013)
Near-extremal vanishing horizon AdS5 black holes and their CFT duals
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Jurco B
(2015)
Semistrict higher gauge theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kennedy A
(2013)
Shadow Hamiltonians, Poisson brackets, and gauge theories
in Physical Review D
Kilic C
(2009)
Searching for multijet resonances at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kiran K
(2014)
Strings vs. spins on the null orbifold
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kiyo Y
(2009)
Reconstruction of heavy quark current correlators at
in Nuclear Physics B
Konechny A
(2015)
Fusion of conformal interfaces and bulk induced boundary RG flows
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Konechny A
(2013)
Renormalization group defects for boundary flows
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Konechny A
(2014)
Entropy of conformal perturbation defects
in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Konechny A
(2008)
Open string radiation from decaying FZZT branes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kunduri H
(2014)
Degenerate horizons, Einstein metrics, and Lens space bundles
in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Kunduri H
(2009)
Uniqueness of near-horizon geometries of rotating extremal AdS 4 black holes
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Kunduri H
(2009)
Static near-horizon geometries in five dimensions
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Kunduri H
(2014)
Black hole non-uniqueness via spacetime topology in five dimensions
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Kunduri H
(2014)
The first law of soliton and black hole mechanics in five dimensions
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Kunduri H
(2009)
A classification of near-horizon geometries of extremal vacuum black holes
in Journal of Mathematical Physics
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