Title:
Theoretical principles of the search for new particles and interactions in accelerator experiments
Project management at the University of Würzburg:
Participating scientists:
Abstract:
Theoretical studies are indispensable for the efficient planning and realization of experiments at high energy particle colliders as well as for the subsequent analysis of the collected data. In the search for new fundamental particles and interactions the theoretical exploration of possible extensions of the standard model and the calculation of suitable observables for scattering reactions providing decisive signals are particularly important. This project focuses on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN, Geneva, scheduled to start operating in 2007, and at the international electron-positron linear collider ILC, which is currently being designed. The following topics shall be studied: signal and background cross sections for Higgs boson searches, phenomenology of supersymmetric particles and the determination of the fundamental parameters of supersymmetric models, flavor mixing in the quark and lepton sector, effects of additional compact space dimensions and of noncommutative geometry. In addition, software packages that can serve as event generators for the simulation of experiments and in the analysis of experimental data shall be developed.
Key words:
elementary particle physics
quantum field theory
standard model
leptons, quarks
quantum chromodynamics
electroweak interactions
new particles and interactions
supersymmetry
lepton-flavor violation
CP violation
higher dimensional models
noncommutative quantum field theory
collider physics
Projekt period: from 01.2004 to 06.2006
Funding institution:
Bund
Links:
TP II
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