French-German doctoral school in elementary particle physics

Theoretical elementary particle physics studies the fundamental questions of the elementary building blocks of our world, along with the physical laws which govern their behavior. The Standard Model of elementary particle physics summarizing these building blocks is similar to the periodic table of chemical elements but at a size scale many orders of magnitude smaller.
Experimenters are testing it at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. In order to compare the copious data produced by the experiments with the predictions of the model, difficult calculations are required. The researchers on this proposal have all contributed to the development of new methods for such calculations. Their continued development of these methods, and the training of doctoral students and young researchers in them, are important objectives of the CDFA. In addition, these same methods also have applications to calculations of gravitational-wave templates used by gravitational-wave observatories such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The development of this application is also part of the objectives of the CDFA.