Precision flavour physics observables from Lattice QCD

In this PhD project you will make first principle theory predictions highly relevant for particle physics experiments at supercolliders such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Institution: University of Liverpool 

This project will make first principle theory predictions highly relevant for particle physics experiments at supercolliders such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. These predictions based on Lattice Quantum Field Theory will aid the search for hitherto undiscovered New Physics extending beyond the Standard Model. 

The student will perform sophisticated analyses of large datasets from Lattice QCD simulations which is the only known first-principle method to relate the Standard Model description of the theory of quarks and gluons (Quantum Chromodynamics) to experimentally observable bound states called “hadrons”. They will develop methods to optimally extract hadronic form factors from existing data sets, with a particular focus on decays of mesons containing a heavy (charm or bottom) quark. This will culminate in predictions of several hadronic form factors, parameterising the decays of D(s) and B(s) mesons which are experimentally accessible at the LHC (CERN) and other supercolliders. These predictions are highly anticipated by the wider theoretical and experimental particle physics communities and will aid the search for New Physics. 

Student: Aurelia Zuchanke