The Tait Institute: research
We are interested in all aspects of theoretical physics and applied mathematics.
Scientific understanding of the natural world is based on uncovering its laws through experiment and expressing them in a mathematical form. This allows to make definite predictions, which can then be confronted with experiment.
Theoretical physics encompasses a board range of analytical and computational methods. These methods are applied to study phenomena at all length scales from the Planck scale that governs quantum gravity, through the scattering of elementary particles as studies at high energy collider, through the atomic and molecular scales of condensed matter, and up to the largest scales in the universe.
Some of our famous papers can be found here.
Feynman diagrams describing four different production mechanisms for the Higgs particle in hadronic collisions.
The Higgs particle is the last ingredient of the Standard Model of particle physics which so far evaded direct detection.
Event displays from the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. One of the main missions of the LHC is to find the Higgs particle.
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
The picture above presents the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation across the sky. The one on the right presents the corresponding power spectrum.
