Richard Ball

Professor R D Ball

Position: Professor
Category: Academic staff
Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 4421

School research affiliations

Richard is a member of the following School research institute, research group and research areas:

Research institute

Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics

Research group

Particle Physics Theory

Research areas

Research interests

Quantum Field Theory, with particular interest in QCD, Electroweak and Higgs physics at the LHC, and the use of Machine Learning in physics.

Research groups

Particle Physics Theory

Administrative roles

Principal Investigator on the STFC Consolidated Grant in Particle Physics Theory since 2005; Head of the Particle Theory Group 2008-14; Director of the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics 2012-15; Programme Co-Ordinator of Mathematical Physics since 2010; Chairman of the Board of Examiners for Mathematical Physics since 2011; elected member of the University Senate.

Websites

http://higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk

http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/research/particle-physics-theory

http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~rdb

Visiting and research positions

CERN Associate

Associate at the Discovery Centre, NBI Copenhagen

Teaching

Written and delivered numerous Honours level courses in mathematical physics: Complex Analysis; Fundamental Symmetries; Groups and Symmetries; Electromagnetism; Classical Electrodynamics; Symmetries of Quantum Mechanics; Symmetries of Particles and Fields; Quantum Theory; Principles of Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Field Theory; Gauge Theories of Particle Physics.

PhD project opportunities

Richard currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:

Publications

Recent publications

A determination of αs(mZ) at aN3LOQCD⊗NLOQED accuracy from a global PDF analysis DOI
Richard D. Ball, Andrea Barontini, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Stefano Forte, Felix Hekhorn, Emanuele R. Nocera, Juan Rojo and Roy Stegeman, The European Physical Journal C, 85, 9, p. 1-17 (2025)
Combination of aN3LO PDFs and implications for Higgs production cross-sections at the LHC DOI
MSHT Collaboration, NNPDF Collaboration, Thomas Cridge, Lucian A. Harland-Lang, Jamie McGowan, Robert S. Thorne, Richard D. Ball, Alessandro Candido, Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Luigi Del Debbio et al., Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 52, 6, p. 1-27 (2025)
The path to N3LO parton distributions DOI
NNPDF Collaboration, Andrea Barontini, Alessandro Candido, Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Tommaso Giani, Felix Hekhorn, Zahari Kassabov et al., The European Physical Journal C, 84, 7, p. 1-59 (2024)
Photons in the proton: implications for the LHC DOI
NNPDF Collaboration, Andrea Barontini, Alessandro Candido, Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Tommaso Giani, Felix Hekhorn, Zahari Kassabov et al., The European Physical Journal C, 84, 5, p. 1-29 (2024)
Determination of the theory uncertainties from missing higher orders on NNLO parton distributions with percent accuracy DOI
NNPDF Collaboration, Andrea Barontini, Alessandro Candido, Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Tommaso Giani, Felix Hekhorn, Zahari Kassabov et al., The European Physical Journal C, 84, 5, p. 1-22 (2024)

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