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The Standard Model

The most widely accepted theory that describes interactions at their most fundamental level is the Standard Model. This theory has so far stood up to to all the tests that have been applied to it at the highest possible energies reachable today. It is, however, a far from complete theory and is only a low energy approximation.

A scientists goal should always be to question the theories and test them to see how accurately they represent the true data. One of the main aims of particle physics has been exactly this, to test the Standard Model. In this thesis some previously unexplored areas of the Standard Model are investigated, along with some areas that are not well constrained and the results are compared directly to those predicted by the Standard Model.

Firstly, in this chapter a few of the basic ideas of the Standard Model are described to give an overview of the theory that is being tested.



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Jonathan Couchman 2002-11-04