Mathematical Sciences at Liverpool University

In light of the conspicuous absence of SUSY in the energy range explored by the LHC in 2012, non-supersymmetric BSM scenarios are becoming more and more attractive. One key ingredient in exploring such BSM physics are the renormalization group equations (RGEs) that are essential for extrapolating the theory to higher energy scales. Although the 2-loop RGEs for a general quantum field theory are known since a long time, there is no easy-to-use tool that automatically generates them (for supersymmetric models, see the Mathematica package SARAH by F. Staub). In this talk, I will present a Python programs called PyR@TE that generate the RGEs for an arbitrary model that is specified in terms of its gauge group and particle content.

Theoretical Physics Seminars and Colloquia

Wednesday Seminars Liverpool High Energy Theory Group

Unless otherwise indicated, seminars take place at 1pm on Wednesdays in the Chris Michael Seminar Room (117), 1st Floor, Mathematical Sciences building.

Year 2013/2014:

First Term:

2nd October: M.C. Kumar (DESY Hamburg): `QCD threshold corrections to inclusive jet production at hadron colliders'
9th October: Emanuel Malek (DAMTP, Cambridge): `The O(d,d) Geometry of String Theory'
16th October: Peter Millington (University of Manchester): `Perturbative Non-Equilibrium Thermal Field Theory'
23rd October: "Meet Your Neighbour" Half Day Meeting
30th October: Wilco den Dunnen (University of Tübingen): `Transverse momentum dependent effects in Higgs and J/Psi+gamma production'
6th November: Paul Dempster (University of Liverpool): `Consistency of higher spin interactions'
13th November: Florian Lyonnet (UJF/LPSC Grenoble): `Automatic generation of RGEs at two-loop: PyR@TE'
13th November (Extra session at 4pm): David Lamprea (University of Münster): `Resummation predictions for BSM particle production at the LHC'
20th November: Chris Allton (Swansea): `Pushing QCD beyond it's breaking point: lattice calculations in the quark-gluon plasma phase'
27th November: Emanuele Re (Oxford): `Reaching NNLO accuracy with parton-shower event generators: the POWHEG+MiNLO approach'
4th December: NO SEMINAR
11th December: Michael Blaszczyk (Mainz): `Heterotic Orbifold and Resolution Model Building'

Second Term:

29th January: Alon Faraggi (Liverpool): `The quantum closet'
5th February 14h30: Jonathan Da Silva (Manchester): `Phenomenological aspects of the UMSSM'
12th February: Fabian Ruehle (DESY Hamburg): `Model building in F-Theory'
19th February: NO SEMINAR
26th February: Alexander Knochel (Aachen): `Constraining physics beyond the Standard Model in effective Higgs interactions'
5th March: Benjamin Pecjak (IPPP Durham): `QCD for boosted top-quark production'
12th March: Terrance Figy (Manchester): `Electroweak Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets (A.K.A. VBF + 1 Jet) at NLO QCD'
19th March: Viraf Mehta (Liverpool): `Light U(1)s in Heterotic String Models'
26th March: Sacha Davidson (IPNL Lyon): `Dark Matter, Effective Field Theory, and the LHC'
2nd April: Stephen Jones (Liverpool): `Exclusive Production of Heavy Vector Mesons'

Third Term:

30th April: NO SEMINAR
7th May: Ulrich Nierste (KIT Karlsruhe): `How many doublets? Constraining new physics with Higgs data'
14th May: Adriano Lo Presti (IPhT - C.E.A. Saclay): `Next-to-leading order diphoton+dijet production at the LHC'
15th May, Ninth Barkla Lecture at 4 p.m., Rotblat Lecture Theatre:
Professor Jacob D. Bekenstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): `Black Hole Thermodynamics'
21th May: Aalok Misra (IIT Roorkee): `Particle Cosmology and Phenomenology - Related aspects of D3/D7 mu-Split SUSY'
28th May: Craig McNeile (Plymouth University): `Some recent results on the masses of glueballs from lattice QCD'
THURSDAY 12th June, 1 p.m.: PG Annual Presentation (I)

`Induced Chern-Simons Terms from Massive Matter - A String Theorist's Perspective'

`Constraints from precision observables in the SM and BSM'

`A "Very Special" Non-Extremal Black Hole in N=2,d=4 Supergravity'

`Aspects of Two and Four Dimensional Gauge Theories'

`Structure Function Resummation and All-alpha_s-Order Results'

THURSDAY 19th June, 1 p.m.: PG Annual Presentation (II)

`Classification of the Flipped SU(5) Heterotic-String Vacua'

`Aspects of RG flow: the A-theorem for gauge theories'

`Operator renormalization in QCD at the asymmetric point'

`Phenomenological Study of the Standard-Like Heterotic String Models`

`Spectral flow as a map between N=(2,0)-models'

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Seminar Organisers: Thomas Teubner, Viraf Mehta and Tomas Jezo.

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