Particles, Fields and Extended Objects
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics
Abstract
The STFC research programme of the Theoretical High Energy Physics Group at
Cambridge University is focused on the fundamental problems of collider
phenomenology, quantum field theory, string theory and gravity, and analysing a
class of strongly interacting particles called hadrons.
In this research, we
shall perform calculations to understand the fundamentals underlying
reality and our understanding of the universe and matter within it.
Much of this effort supports particle physics experiments at CERN and
elsewhere, as well as astrophysical and cosmological observations of the
universe.
Technical, difficult and detailed calculations deep in the quantum theory are
required in order to interpret some of the experimental data and to learn
everything we can from them. The structure of the proton (the particles
collided at the Large Hadron Collider) will be understood better in order to get
robust and reliable predictions on the collisions. We are analysing
and interpreting Large Hadron Collider data from CERN to do
various things: looking for signs of new particles or forces, developing
search and measurement strategies for them, or making high precision
predictions of various theories. The Standard Model is the current model of
particle physics that is well accepted, verified and measured. Most of its
predictions agree well with collider data. However, it leaves many questions
unanswered: why do the fundamental particles have the particular pattern they
do in their masses? We shall be developing mathematical models, based on
current data, to try to explain some such features, and provide experimental
tests at the same time. We are also busy supporting the science case for future
colliders, investigating which questions they could answer well.
How gravity behaves at small distance scales is badly understood
theoretically, although string theory may be an interesting framework for
understanding it.
We will be developing and investigating theories of quantum
gravity mathematically in order to push the understanding forward.
Black
holes provide a particular focus for the calculations: these are objects
around which gravity is very strong, and we will learn much from their
theoretical study. Various
calculations in new developments of string theory are important for this, and
for the development of how to calculate particle scattering in general.
String theories will be constructed to see how close they come to the universe
we see. Also, models of inflation (a time in the early universe when the
universe underwent extremely rapid expansion) will be investigated, developed
and compared with observations.
Some particles, such as hadrons, are strongly bound states of smaller
ones. For these, sophisticated computer programs are built which break
space and time up into a grid of points, and the quantum
fluctuations of the sub-nuclear interactions are simulated using random
numbers on this lattice. Analytic calculations must be done to match the
numbers obtained on the computer to experimental data. We shall develop
these calculations, and perform new ones so that data can be used to
extract the level to which various quarks (for example, the up quark and
the b-quark) mix. This helps provide an accurate description of an
unexplained phenomenon: how the funny pattern of quark mixing comes
about. These calculations also help the extraction of the difference
between matter and anti-matter from experimental data. We can predict
much about which strongly bound states may exist and their properties,
and studies of the more exotic and puzzling varieties seen in experiment
will be an important avenue of work.
Cambridge University is focused on the fundamental problems of collider
phenomenology, quantum field theory, string theory and gravity, and analysing a
class of strongly interacting particles called hadrons.
In this research, we
shall perform calculations to understand the fundamentals underlying
reality and our understanding of the universe and matter within it.
Much of this effort supports particle physics experiments at CERN and
elsewhere, as well as astrophysical and cosmological observations of the
universe.
Technical, difficult and detailed calculations deep in the quantum theory are
required in order to interpret some of the experimental data and to learn
everything we can from them. The structure of the proton (the particles
collided at the Large Hadron Collider) will be understood better in order to get
robust and reliable predictions on the collisions. We are analysing
and interpreting Large Hadron Collider data from CERN to do
various things: looking for signs of new particles or forces, developing
search and measurement strategies for them, or making high precision
predictions of various theories. The Standard Model is the current model of
particle physics that is well accepted, verified and measured. Most of its
predictions agree well with collider data. However, it leaves many questions
unanswered: why do the fundamental particles have the particular pattern they
do in their masses? We shall be developing mathematical models, based on
current data, to try to explain some such features, and provide experimental
tests at the same time. We are also busy supporting the science case for future
colliders, investigating which questions they could answer well.
How gravity behaves at small distance scales is badly understood
theoretically, although string theory may be an interesting framework for
understanding it.
We will be developing and investigating theories of quantum
gravity mathematically in order to push the understanding forward.
Black
holes provide a particular focus for the calculations: these are objects
around which gravity is very strong, and we will learn much from their
theoretical study. Various
calculations in new developments of string theory are important for this, and
for the development of how to calculate particle scattering in general.
String theories will be constructed to see how close they come to the universe
we see. Also, models of inflation (a time in the early universe when the
universe underwent extremely rapid expansion) will be investigated, developed
and compared with observations.
Some particles, such as hadrons, are strongly bound states of smaller
ones. For these, sophisticated computer programs are built which break
space and time up into a grid of points, and the quantum
fluctuations of the sub-nuclear interactions are simulated using random
numbers on this lattice. Analytic calculations must be done to match the
numbers obtained on the computer to experimental data. We shall develop
these calculations, and perform new ones so that data can be used to
extract the level to which various quarks (for example, the up quark and
the b-quark) mix. This helps provide an accurate description of an
unexplained phenomenon: how the funny pattern of quark mixing comes
about. These calculations also help the extraction of the difference
between matter and anti-matter from experimental data. We can predict
much about which strongly bound states may exist and their properties,
and studies of the more exotic and puzzling varieties seen in experiment
will be an important avenue of work.
Planned Impact
The research proposal is aimed at the understanding of matter, forces, space and
time. Much of this effort supports major research capabilities that are UK
interests such as those at CERN. It also feeds into collaborative research
there (and at other facilities/experiments).
We cannot predict when fundamental research will translate into
new technology, however, history implies that fundamental discoveries eventually
lead to spin-offs or direct applications. One example in collider
physics (such as is done at the LHC) is proton cancer therapy. In any case,
the science that we do has an immediate impact on the integration of science
into culture. Our field inspires and attracts people, and our investigators
have collective expertise and skill as public communicators. This already
benefits those who are stimulated by acquiring new knowledge about science.
Our blogs also influence thinking about science and society (for example in
terms of evidence-based policy). We are motivators for young people to follow
a career in science.
Part of our work is to give train students in creative and analytic thinking,
skills that are directly relevant for the UK economy for those that leave
academia and go into industry (often scientific industry) or financial
services.
We will communicate the results of our research to the general public (for
example in music festivals and other cultural festivals) and to
school children. Our goal is to both educate and to inspire, to explain the
wonder of
the natural world, the excitement of being involved in cutting edge research
and the joy of understanding something that no one else on the planet
knows. Members of the group have media connections through radio, television,
print and the internet and we will continue to develop these.
time. Much of this effort supports major research capabilities that are UK
interests such as those at CERN. It also feeds into collaborative research
there (and at other facilities/experiments).
We cannot predict when fundamental research will translate into
new technology, however, history implies that fundamental discoveries eventually
lead to spin-offs or direct applications. One example in collider
physics (such as is done at the LHC) is proton cancer therapy. In any case,
the science that we do has an immediate impact on the integration of science
into culture. Our field inspires and attracts people, and our investigators
have collective expertise and skill as public communicators. This already
benefits those who are stimulated by acquiring new knowledge about science.
Our blogs also influence thinking about science and society (for example in
terms of evidence-based policy). We are motivators for young people to follow
a career in science.
Part of our work is to give train students in creative and analytic thinking,
skills that are directly relevant for the UK economy for those that leave
academia and go into industry (often scientific industry) or financial
services.
We will communicate the results of our research to the general public (for
example in music festivals and other cultural festivals) and to
school children. Our goal is to both educate and to inspire, to explain the
wonder of
the natural world, the excitement of being involved in cutting edge research
and the joy of understanding something that no one else on the planet
knows. Members of the group have media connections through radio, television,
print and the internet and we will continue to develop these.
Publications
Von Harling B
(2023)
High-Temperature Electroweak Baryogenesis with Composite Higgs
Delaney J
(2023)
Radiative Transitions in Charmonium from Lattice QCD
Hartnoll S
(2023)
AdS black holes with a bouncing interior
in SciPost Physics
Gadioux M
(2023)
Creases, corners, and caustics: Properties of nonsmooth structures on black hole horizons
in Physical Review D
Benisty D
(2023)
On the robustness of the constancy of the Supernova absolute magnitude: Non-parametric reconstruction & Bayesian approaches
in Physics of the Dark Universe
Esser F
(2023)
On the coupling of axion-like particles to the top quark
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Dias Ó
(2023)
Black hole superradiant instability for massive spin-2 fields
in Physical Review D
Allanach
(2023)
Fits to measurements of rare heavy flavour decays
Horowitz G
(2023)
Almost all extremal black holes in AdS are singular
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Description | AM NEW LEVEL OF THEORETICAL PRECISION FOR LHC RUN 2 AND BEYOND |
Amount | € 1,714,983 (EUR) |
Funding ID | RG79884 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 10/2016 |
End | 09/2021 |
Description | AW Tensor Networks and Holographic Spacetime |
Amount | $748,177 (USD) |
Organisation | Airforce Office of Scientific Research |
Sector | Public |
Country | United States |
Start | 01/2019 |
End | 05/2024 |
Description | DT Simons Investigators Grant |
Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | RG93620 |
Organisation | Simons Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United States |
Start | 08/2018 |
End | 07/2023 |
Description | DT Wolfson Research Merit Award |
Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | RG 83860 |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2017 |
End | 12/2022 |
Description | MU Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship |
Amount | £447,761 (GBP) |
Funding ID | RG 83860 |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2017 |
End | 09/2021 |
Description | MU Royal Society Research Enhancement Grant |
Amount | £78,281 (GBP) |
Funding ID | RGF/EA/180148 |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 10/2017 |
End | 05/2022 |
Title | A Nu Supersymmetric Anomaly-free Atlas: anomaly-free, flavour-dependent U(1) charge assignments for the Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model plus three Standard Model-singlet superfields |
Description | We present lists of anomaly-free charge assignments up to a maximum magnitude charge Qmax=10 for the chiral fermionic content of the MSSM plus 3 right-handed neutrinos. Due to the large number of solutions, we compress the list into the file MSSMnuRcharges_Qmax10.gz. Please note that the unzipped file is approximately 130GB in size. We additionally include a smaller file, MSSMnuRcharges_Qmax4, containing the subset of anomaly-free charge assignments up to a maximum magnitude charge Qmax=4. The files searchU1MSSM.cpp and searchU1MSSM.h contain C++ files (in the 2014 standard) to produce the solutions. runsearch.sh is a bash script that compiles the programs and then runs it for a sample set of inputs. We provide Mathematica notebooks Analytic_solution_generator.nb and Analytic_Checks.nb which respectively provide the parametrisation of the analytic solution and checks thereof. The files beginning 'filter' contain example programs that read in each line in the solution list, apply a filter and print only the solutions satisfying the conditions of that filter. runfilter.sh is a bash script that compiles the filters and then runs a single filter as an example. These data and programs are based on this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07926. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The paper has resulted in a citation from another work quoting the results. |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5062067 |
Description | Particle Data Group |
Organisation | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Contributed to the Review of Particle Physics |
Collaborator Contribution | Wrote the Theoretical Review of Supersymmetry chapter |
Impact | This is the definitive major resource for all experimental data on particle physics. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | AC Talks at Latin American School and Workshop on Gravity and Holography |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Anillo for Holography and its applications to High Energy Physics, Quantum Gravity and Condensed Matter Systems seeks to deepen our understanding of holographic dualities and their applications to different physical systems. Our project also aims to foster and strengthen collaborations among the high energy and condensed matter theory communities, by promoting the training of young researchers in the areas of quantum field theory, quantum gravity and string theory. This project aims to expand our knowledge of holographic dualities and their use as a tool to describe strongly correlated systems, and our understanding of particle physics and quantum gravity. We have assembled a multifaceted team of researchers from the different areas of expertise relevant to the topics we want to address, namely, in quantum field theory, quantum gravity/string theory, and condensed matter physics. During the past few decades, Chile has experienced a substantial growth in the number of young scientists working in high-energy physics. With this project, we also want to help our students and postdocs to enhance their engagement with the international community by promoting extended visits abroad, and by participating in schools, workshops, and conferences. Finally, outreach is also one of our main objectives. Throughout the length of our project, we will continue organizing activities that help disseminate our results in non-academic activities that help bring science closer to our communities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://holography.cl/activities/events/lawgh2022/ |
Description | ACD |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Astroparticle physics is undergoing a profound transformation, due to a series of extraordinary new results, such as the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos with IceCube, the direct detection of gravitational waves with LIGO and Virgo, and many others. This white paper is the result of a collaborative effort that involved hundreds of theoretical astroparticle physicists and cosmologists, under the coordination of the European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT). Addressed to the whole astroparticle physics community, it explores upcoming theoretical opportunities and challenges for our field of research, with particular emphasis on the possible synergies among different subfields, and the prospects for solving the most fundamental open questions with multi-messenger observations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10074 |
Description | AM Lake Louise Winter Institute |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A conference dedicated to Phenomenology. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/846070/ |
Description | Also Festival "Divine Mathematics of Ramanujan" talk DT |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | ALSO's resident quantum theorist Prof David Tong will be taking to the stage to talk about the divine mathematics of Indian physicist Ramanujan Srinivasan. David says, "The plan is to talk about Ramanujan Srinivasan, an amazing self-taught mathematician who knew very little mathematics, claimed that his ideas were sent to him by his God, and came up with insights that took the rest of us the world 100 years to figure out!' In this brand new talk, David will explain how his college Trinity College, Cambridge is involved in Ramanujan's work as he tells us this unusual story. David Tong is, of course, a professor of theoretical physics at DAMTP in Cambridge, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a joint recipient of the 2008 Adams Prize. He was a postdoc at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics and an adjunct professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.also-festival.com/events/the-divine-mathematics-of-ramanujan/feed |
Description | Apr 2021: Quoted in BBC News g-2 article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview on BBC TV News |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56643677 |
Description | BCA interviewed for long article & podcast in The Economist magazine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The article was about what the LHC is doing 10 years after the Higgs discovery. My contribution was about LHC Run 3 and Z's as a solution to B-anomalies (as well as helping the journalist out with background particle physics information). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/07/04/ten-years-on-from-the-higgs-boson-what-i... |
Description | BCA interviewed in BBC News MW Measurement Story |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The story went out on BBC News on 7th April 2022, accompanied by BBC TV and radio news item. Questions and interest from the public and friends abounded later. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60993523 |
Description | BCA interviewed in New Scientist cover story about Z' explanations of the B anomalies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Extensive interview about my research on Z' boson explanations of the B anomalies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://institutions.newscientist.com/article/mg25333693-200-the-large-hadron-collider-blips-that-co... |
Description | BG Lectures at University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk "Particle Physics - Present and Future" With the Large Hadron Collider well underway, particle physics finds itself at a crossroads. I will discuss what we have learnt from the LHC and what our next steps might be. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/science/schools-and-departments/phys-chem/physics--astronomy-seminars/ |
Description | BG The Ideas of Particle Physics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Fourth edition of popular science book |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://cds.cern.ch/record/2723467?ln=en |
Description | DT "The Expanding Universe" talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk at Also Festival, Compton Verney (in real life), August 2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.also-festival.com/ |
Description | DT "Are We Living in the Matrix" talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lecture for Maxwell Society, Kings College |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMn7SuiHP8 |
Description | DT "In conversation with David Tong" talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Capacity Building of students, teachers and parents towards application of science and technology. Build scientific temperament among students. Teach Core CS-STEM concepts in a hands-on, engaging and fun filled manner Low per child investment, fixed location facility. Value for investment - the entire school can be engaged throughout the year Participation in international Robotics competitions. An opportunity for employees to engage with students on a regular basis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://indiastemfoundation.org/ |
Description | DT "Understanding the Universe" for Salon London, on Zoom |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A virtual talk as part of the Salon for London programme. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | DT "Whats Going on in Particle Physics" talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Also Festival is a Music festival set over three transformative days, taking a look through the crucial ideas of our time, gazing on the natural world and into the internal world, to consider why we think the way we do. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.also-festival.com/events/also-22/feed |
Description | DT CERN Summer School - Particle World |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | A particle physics summer school for post graduate students |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | DT Colliding Black Holes talks |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview with BBC World News. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | DT Fifteen minutes with David Tong |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A website that mostly actors, sportsmen and scientists. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.fifteenminuteswith.com/2020/12/06/david-tong-real-genius/ |
Description | DT In Conversation with David Tong |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Sci Talk is the official student media body of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee run entirely by students under the aegis of the Dean of Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), IIT Roorkee. 26 years after its conception, Watch Out! has grown to offer news, commentary, opinions and editorials from around the campus on its website and social media platforms in conjunction with a semesterly print issue. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://watchout.iitr.ac.in/2020/02/prof-david-tong?fbclid=IwAR2si2z6CpkL7CSfP-6Q1BUqve9Z-bU4G_LcIJ04... |
Description | DT SciTalk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk at SciTalk IIT Pune India. 4.5k views on You Tube |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9ZGp72Gp8 |
Description | DT The Best Places in the Universe for Social Distancing talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk for Also Festival Digital, describing exoplanets |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.also-festival.com/ |
Description | EP RESCEU summer school 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | A summer school for grad students and post docs on the Very Early Universe |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Institute of Art and Ideas videos recorded |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | interview On supersymmetry and beyond | Supersymmetry and Particle Physics | interview on Should we give up on supersymmetry? | debate on "The future of particle physics" with John Ellis and Catherine Heymans |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://iai.tv/video/ben-allanach-in-depth-interview-supersymmetry-particle-physics |
Description | Invited lecture - Hadron Spectroscopy CT |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture on "Hadron Spectroscopy", EuroPLEx Progress Workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://europlex.unipr.it/network-events/odense-2022-europlex-progress-workshop/ |
Description | Is This a New Kind of Physics? - with Harry Cliff, Paula Alvarez Cartelle and Ben Allanach |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Royal Institution talk: Our current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model, predicts equal numbers of electrons and muons, but the results showed fewer muons being produced than electrons. Is this just a cruel trick of the data, or could this be the first sign of a new force of nature? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=r8ySRS9cXiM&ab_channel=TheRoyalInstitution |
Description | JS "Universe Unravelled With The Stephen Hawking Centre" series on Discovery + |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | TV series commission "The extraordinary researchers at the legendary Professor Stephen Hawking's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology seek answers to some of the universe's most captivating questions." |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.discoveryplus.com/gb/show/universe-unravelled-with-the-stephen-hawking-centre?tab=episod... |
Description | JT: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School Careers Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Careers day talk |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.egaschool.co.uk/268/careers-and-progression |
Description | JT: St Aloysius' College careers talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Careers day |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.sta.islington.sch.uk/students/careers-guidance |
Description | Lecture: Particle World CERN Summer School DT |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | A Theoretical Physics Summer School held at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://summer-timetable.web.cern.ch/ |
Description | MD "Geometry A Very Short Introduction" book |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Offers a fresh modern introduction to a fundamental branch of mathematics, from Euclid to the geometry of spacetime in black holes. Stretches the reader but requires no more than high school mathematics. Highlights the broader connections of geometry with science and art. Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwide. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/geometry-a-very-short-introduction-9780199683680?cc=us&lang=... |
Description | MD Mathematics of Curved Spaces - Clare College open day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk given to attendees of Clare College Open day |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/md327/Curved_spaces_talk1.pdf |
Description | MD: Clare College Opem Days |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Information stands Course presentations and sample lectures College and department tours Q&A sessions with current students and staff |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/md327/Curved_spaces_talk1.pdf |
Description | MD: Four Facets of Geometry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A talk at Center For Advanced Mathematical Sciences, American University of Beirut. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXKzA49ET8A |
Description | MD: Interview marking the 550th anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus's birth |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nicolaus Copernicus, a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, formulated the heliocentric model of our solar system. Sunday marked the 550th birthday of the famous Polish polymath, Professor Maciej Dunajski, mathematical physicist and fellow at the Cambridge University's Clare College, was TVP World's guest invited to talk about the significance of Copernicus's legacy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://tvpworld.com/66439477/copernicus-contribution-was-nothing-short-of-a-revolution-cambridge-pr... |
Description | MD: Radio interview - Cambridge Arts Roundup |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview on Geometry in art and space |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://cambridge105.co.uk/artsroundup-17-04-2022-2/ |
Description | MD: Sagittarius A*. Interview with TVP World |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | An interview about partial eclipses and how often they occur. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://tvpworld.com/64153996/partial-eclipses-are-frequent-total-ones-happening-every-18-months-sci... |
Description | MU "Machine learning new physics laws" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Opening plenary lecture at the Royal Society as part of the Meeting of mind lecture series |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | MU "New phenomenology challenges at the LHC precision frontier" 3 lectures (1.5 hours each) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A series of three lectures given as part of the Majorana series in Naples. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://agenda.infn.it/event/24372/ |
Description | MU "Seminar Speaker Series" talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Celebration of 150 years of Newnham College |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://150.newn.cam.ac.uk/festivals/virtual-festival/?fbclid=IwAR1BIVN-G4WlEacuwxkJtIa4m1nr6aXJbu8r... |
Description | MU "Women in particle physics" Talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | 150th Newnham College Cambridge Anniversary lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5-trLl6DWU |
Description | MU Intvited talk at GradNET AI meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | NNPDF - using neural networks to compute parton density functions. A graduate level talk on the context: precision era at the LHC and the role of the proton's structure |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://indico.ph.qmul.ac.uk/indico/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=543 |
Description | MU Maths Open Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Orientation days for potential students, talk to students and staff, participate in a Mathematics lecture, and ask questions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/admissions/openday |
Description | MU Maths Open Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Orientation days for potential students, talk to students and staff, participate in a Mathematics lecture, and ask questions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/admissions/openday |
Description | MW Quark flavour and lattice QCD - Progress Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | EuroPLEx (European network for Particle physics, Lattice field theory and Extreme computing) is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission under the H2020 program. Our mission is to train 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) who will be enrolled in the PhD programs of the 9 participating institutions: |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://europlex.unipr.it/ |
Description | Mar 2021: Quoted in Guardian B-anomalies article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Directly about my STFC research on B anomaly explanations |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/23/large-hadron-collider-scientists-particle-physics |
Description | Nature article about g-2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview on beyond the Standard Model meaning behind the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon measurement by the g-2 collaboration |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01033-8 |
Description | Online talk and Q&A to diverse school students about Challenges and Future Directions in Theoretical Particle Physics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Online talk and Q&A to diverse school students about Challenges and Future Directions in Theoretical Particle Physics: was to help enthusiastic school children interested in physics help think about future careers in theoretical physics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.cisdl.org/2020/03/28/current-challenges-future-directions-mini-tutorial-series/ |
Description | Podcast interview DT |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | The "Joy of Why" podcast with Steven Strogatz about Quantum Field Theory. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-quantum-field-theory-and-why-is-it-incomplete-20220810/ |
Description | Podcast on Between Two Curators |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Science podcast on my work and life. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.betweentwocurators.com/1058443/4262579-looking-for-incredibly-tiny-particles-with-quantu... |
Description | Rethinking Beyond the Standard Model - EP Summer School at Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Delivered a talk on Advanced Topics in Cosmology to a Summer School |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://indico.desy.de/event/33352/ |
Description | SM Science on Sundays talk on Gravitational Waves. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Popular talk about gravitational waves for over 100 children across India (aged 8-12). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | interviewed in New Scientist article about FCC-ee |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Extensively interviewed about point of FCC-ee and new physics options. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://institutions.newscientist.com/article/mg25033411-000-can-a-new-collider-reveal-the-last-secr... |
Description | talk on LHC for Mosquitoes play, Headgate theatre BCA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Prior to the Mosquitoes play (which includes LHC themes and related characters), I gave a particle physics/LHC talk to the cast and members of the public at a free event at the Headgate theatre in Colchester. The cast in particular said that the play made more sense after the play, and there was the usual enthusiastic and energetic questioning from members of the audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/headgatetheatre/e-rxxyde |