The Collider Phenomenology Group works on the theoretical physics of high-energy experimental facilities, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) or B-factories. Its core activity is the precision study of fundamental interactions.
Two main research lines are developed. On one hand, precision tests of the Standard Model (SM) of Fundamental Interactions at colliders are pursued by means of state-of-the-art theoretical calculations for collider observables, which are able to shed light on the properties of fundamental particles such as the Higgs and gauge bosons, as well as of hadronic final-states, such as jets. On the other hand, the analysis of rare decays of the heavy quark flavours and the determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements are at the core of the flavour-physics studies pursued within the group, and aim at constraining the extensions of the SM or at identifying possible New-Physics signals.
The group activities are developed by means of advanced techniques for the evaluation of radiative corrections in Quantum Field Theory, employing both analytical and numerical methods.
The group is based on a collaboration between the Torino INFN section and the Physics Department of the University of Torino.