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Peter Richardson
Professor
MA, MSci, DPhil

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Professor in the Department of Physics | OC207 | +44 (0) 191 33 43764 |
Professor in the Centre for Particle Theory | OC120 | +44 (0) 191 33 43764 |
Professor in the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology | OC207 | +44 (0) 191 33 43764 |
Biography
Teaching activity
L1: Wave Phenomena, L3: Computer labsResearch interests
My main research interest is the study of model of physics beyond the Standard Model at current and future colliders, particularly the simulation of new physics processes using Monte Carlo event generators. See my personal home page for more details.Research groups
- Elementary Particle Theory
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Awarded Grants
- 2015: HEPData 2.0: new technologies and services(£380395.06 from STFC)
Publications
Conference Paper
- Skands, P. & others (Published), A repository for beyond-the-standard-model tools.
- Bähr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M.A., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Latunde-Dada, O., Plätzer, S., Richardson, P., Seymour, M.H., Sherstnev, A., Tully, J. & Webberd, B.R. (2009), Herwig++ Status Report, in Jung, Hannes & De Roeck, Albert eds, Workshop series on the implications of HERA for LHC physics Workshop HERA and the LHC 2006 - 2008, Hamburg - Geneva. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, 752-757.
- Gigg, Martyn & Richardson, Peter (2007), Herwig++.
- Hamilton, Keith & Richardson, Peter (2006), Simulation of QED radiation in particle decays using the YFS formalism, 07: 010.
- Allanach, B.C. & others (2006), Les Houches 'Physics at TeV colliders 2005' Beyond the standard model working group: Summary report.
- Yao, W. -M. & others (2006), Review of particle physics, G33: 1-1232.
- Aguilar-Saavedra, J.A. & others (2006), Supersymmetry parameter analysis: SPA convention and project, C46: 43-60.
- Allanach, B.C. & others (2004), Les Houches 'Physics at TeV Colliders 2003' Beyond the Standard Model Working Group: Summary report.
- Dobbs, M.A. & others (2004), Les Houches guidebook to Monte Carlo generators for hadron collider physics.
- Dedes, A., Dreiner, H.K., Nierste, U. & Richardson, P. (2002), Trilepton events and B/s -> mu+ mu-: No-lose for mSUGRA at the Tevatron?.
- Azuelos, G. & others (2002), The beyond the standard model working group: Summary report.
- Corcella, G. & others (2002), HERWIG 6.5 release note.
- Corcella, G. & others (2001), HERWIG 6.3 release note.
- Corcella, G. & others (2001), HERWIG 6.4 release note.
- Richardson, Peter (2000), Simulations of R-parity violating SUSY models.
- Dreiner, Herbert K., Richardson, Peter & Seymour, Michael H. (2000), Resonant slepton production at the LHC.
- Abdullin, S. & others (1999), The SUSY working group: Summary report.
- Allanach, B. & others (1999), Searching for R-parity violation at Run-II of the Tevatron.
- Corcella, G. & others (1999), HERWIG 6.1 release note.
- Dreiner, Herbert K., Richardson, Peter & Seymour, Michael H. (1998), Resonant slepton production.
Journal Article
- Plehn, Tilman, Reimitz, Peter & Richardson, Peter (2020). Hadronic footprint of GeV-mass dark matter. SciPost Physics 8(6): 092.
- Bierlich, Christian, Buckley, Andy, Butterworth, Jonathan, Christensen, Christian Holm, Corpe, Louie, Grellscheid, David, Grosse-Oetringhaus, Jan Fiete, Gutschow, Christian, Karczmarczyk, Przemyslaw, Klein, Jochen, Lönnblad, Leif, Pollard, Christopher Samuel, Richardson, Peter, Schulz, Holger & Siegert, Frank (2020). Robust Independent Validation of Experiment and Theory: Rivet version 3. SciPost Physics 8(2): 026.
- Richardson, Peter & Webster, Stephen (2020). Spin correlations in parton shower simulations. The European Physical Journal C 80(2): 83.
- Reichelt, Daniel, Richardson, Peter & Siodmok, Andrzej (2017). Improving the simulation of quark and gluon jets with Herwig 7. The European Physical Journal C 77(12): 876.
- Reichelt, D., Richardson, P. & Siódmok, A. (2017). Colour Reconnections in Quark and Gluon Jets in Herwig 7. Acta Physica Polonica B 48(6): 1167-1173.
- Olive, K.A. (2016). Review of Particle Physics. Chinese Physics C 40(10): 100001.
- Bellm, Johannes, Plätzer, Simon, Richardson, Peter, Siódmok, Andrzej & Webster, Stephen (2016). Reweighting parton showers. Physical Review D 94(3): 034028.
- Bellm, Johannes, Gieseke, Stefan, Grellscheid, David, Plätzer, Simon, Rauch, Michael, Reuschle, Christian, Richardson, Peter, Schichtel, Peter, Seymour, Michael H., Siódmok, Andrzej, Wilcock, Alexandra, Fischer, Nadine, Harrendorf, Marco A., Nail, Graeme, Papaefstathiou, Andreas & Rauch, Daniel (2016). Herwig 7.0/Herwig++ 3.0 release note. The European Physical Journal C 76(4): 196.
- Fuks, Benjamin, Richardson, Peter & Wilcock, Alexandra (2015). Studying the sensitivity of monotop probes to compressed supersymmetric scenarios at the LHC. The European Physical Journal C 75(7): 308.
- Richardson, Peter & Wilcock, Alexandra (2014). Monte Carlo Simulation of Hard Radiation in Decays in Beyond the Standard Model Physics in Herwig++. The European Physical Journal C 74(1): 2713.
- Jaeckel, J. Khoze, V.V. Plehn, T. & Richardson, P. (2012). Travels on the squark-gluino mass plane. Physical Review D 85(1): 015015.
- Richardson, P., Sadykov, R.R., Sapronov, A.A., Seymour, M.H. & Skands, P.Z. (2012). QCD parton showers and NLO EW corrections to Drell-Yan. JHEP 1206: 090.
- Fridman-Rojas, Ilan & Richardson, Peter (2012). Next-to-Leading Order Simulation of Slepton Pair Production.
- Richardson, Peter & Winn, David (2012). Simulation of Sextet Diquark Production. The European physical journal C 72: 1862.
- D'Errico, Luca & Richardson, Peter (2012). A Positive-Weight Next-to-Leading-Order Monte Carlo Simulation of Deep Inelastic Scattering and Higgs Boson Production via Vector Boson Fusion in Herwig++. The European Physical Journal C 72(6): 2042
- D'Errico, Luca & Richardson, Peter (2012). Next-to-Leading-Order Monte Carlo Simulation of Diphoton Production in Hadronic Collisions. Journal of High Energy Physics 2012(2): 130.
- Richardson, Peter & Winn, David (2012). Investigation of Monte Carlo Uncertainties on Higgs Boson searches using Jet Substructure. The European physical journal C 72: 2178.
- Grellscheid, D., Jaeckel, J., Khoze, V.V., Richardson, P. & Wymant, C. (2012). Direct SUSY searches at the LHC in the light of LEP Higgs bounds. Journal of high energy physics 2012(03): 078.
- Arnold, K., d'Errico, L., Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K. & others (2012). Herwig++ 2.6 Release Note. arXiv
- Vasquez, Daniel Albornoz, Belanger, Genevieve, Boehm, Celine, Da Silva, Jonathan, Richardson, Peter & Wymant, Chris (2012). 125 GeV Higgs boson in the NMSSM in light of the LHC results and astrophysics constraints. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 86(3): 035023.
- Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Papaefstathiou, A., Platzer, S. & others (2011). Herwig++ 2.5 Release Note. arXiv
- Dolan, M.J., Grellscheid, D., Jaeckel, J., Khoze, V.V. & Richardson, P. (2011). New Constraints on Gauge Mediation and Beyond from LHC SUSY Searches at 7 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics 2011(06): 095.
- Buckley, A., Butterworth, J., Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Hoche, S., Hoeth, H., Krauss, F., Lonnblad, L., Nurse, E., Richardson, P., Schumann, S., Seymour, M.H., Sjostrand, T., Skands, P. & Webber, B. (2011). General-purpose event generators for LHC Physics. Physics Reports 504(5): 145-233.
- Nakamura, K. & others (2010). Review of particle physics. J.Phys G37: 075021.
- Butterworth, J.M., Maltoni, F., Moortgat, F., Richardson, P., Schumann, S. & others (2010). The Tools and Monte Carlo working group Summary Report.
- Hamilton, K. Richardson, P. & Tully, J. (2009). A Positive-Weight Next-to-Leading Order Monte Carlo Simulation for Higgs Boson Production. Journal of High Energy Physics 2009(04): 116.
- Allanach, B.C., Balazs, C., Belanger, G., Bernhardt, M., Boudjema, F. & others (2009). SUSY Les Houches Accord 2. Comput.Phys.Commun 180: 8-25.
- Hamilton, K. Richardson, P. & Tully, J. (2009). A modified CKKW matrix element merging approach to angular-ordered parton showers. Journal of High Energy Physics 2009(11): 038.
- Amsler, Claude & others (2008). Review of Particle Physics. Phys.Lett B667: 1-1340.
- Garren, L., Lin, C.-J., Navas, Sergio, Richardson, P., Sjóstrand, T. & others (2008). Monte Carlo particle numbering scheme.
- Brooijmans, Gustaaf H., Delgado, A., Dobrescu, Bogdan A., Grojean, C., Narain, Meenakshi & others (2008). New Physics at the LHC: A Les Houches Report. Physics at TeV Colliders 2007 - New Physics Working Group. 363-489.
- Bernhardt, M.A. Dreiner, H.K, Grab, S. & Richardson, P. (2008). Single Slepton Production in association with a single Top Quark at the Tevatron and CERN LHC. Physical Review D 78(1): 015016.
- Bähr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M.A., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Latunde-Dada, O., Platzer, S., Richardson, P., Seymour, M.H., Sherstnev, A. & Webber, B.R. (2008). Herwig++ Physics and Manual. European Physical Journal C 58(4): 639-707.
- Bahr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Latunde-Dada, O., Platzer, S., Richardson, P., Seymour, M. H., Sherstnev, A. & Webber, B. R. (2008). Herwig++ 2.2 Release Note. arXiv
- Bahr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K. & others (2008). Herwig++ 2.3 Release Note. arXiv
- Gigg, M.A. & Richardson, P. (2008). Simulation of Finite Width Effects in Physics Beyond the Standard Model.
- Hamilton, K. Richardson, P. & Tully, J. (2008). A Positive-Weight Next-to-Leading Order Monte Carlo Simulation of Drell-Yan Vector Boson Production. Journal of High Energy Physics 2008(10): 015.
- Gigg, M. & Richardson, P. (2007). Simulation of beyond standard model physics in Herwig++. The European Physical Journal C 51(4): 989-1008.
- Allanach, B.C., Bernhardt, M.A., Dreiner, H.K., Grab, S., Kom, C.H. & others (2007). R-Parity violating minimal supergravity at the LHC.
- Grellscheid, David & Richardson, Peter (2007). Simulation of Tau Decays in the Herwig++ Event Generator. arXiv
- Hamilton, Keith & Richardson, Peter (2007). A simulation of QCD radiation in top quark decays. Journal of High Energy Physics 0702: 069.
- Alwall, J., Ballestrero, A., Bartalini, P., Belov, S., Boos, E., Buckley, A., Butterworth, J.M., Dudko, L., Frixionem, S. Garren, L., Gieseke, S., Gusev, A., Hinchliffe, I., Huston, J., Kersevan, B., Krauss, F., Lavesson, N., Lönnblad, L., Maina, E., Maltoni, F., Mangano, M.L., Moortgat, F., Mrenna, S., Papadopoulos, C.G., Pittau, R., Richardson, P., Seymourm, M.H., Sherstnev, A., Sjöstrand, T., Skands, P., Slabospitsky, S.R., Wa̧s, Z., Webber, B.R., Worek, M. & Zeppenfeld, D. (2007). A standard format for Les Houches event files. Computer physics communications 176(4): 300-304.
- Allanach, B.C. Bernhardt, M.A. Dreiner, H.K. Kom, C.H. & Richardson, P. (2007). Mass Spectrum in R-Parity Violating mSUGRA and Benchmark Points. Physical Review D 75(3): 035002.
- Bahr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Latunde-Dada, O., Platzer, S., Richardson, P., Seymour, M. H., Sherstnev, A. & Webber, B. R. (2007). Herwig++ 2.1 Release Note. arXiv
- Allanach, Benjamin C., Grojean, Christophe, Skands, Peter Z., Accomando, E., Azuelos, Georges & others (2006). Les Houches physics at TeV colliders 2005 beyond the standard model working group: Summary report.
- Harris, Christopher M., Palmer, Matthew J., Parker, & Michael A., Richardson, Peter, Sabetfakhri, Ali and Webber, Bryan R. (2005). Exploring higher dimensional black holes at the Large Hadron Collider. Journal of High Energy Physics 5: 53-.
- Kilian, W., Plehn, T., Richardson, P. & Schmidt, E. (2005). Split supersymmetry at colliders. European Physical Journal C 39(2): 229-243.
- Skands, Peter Z., Richardson, Peter, Allanach, Benjamin C., Baer, H., Belanger, G. & others (2005). A Repository for Beyond-the-Standard-Model Tools.
- Moortgat-Pick, G., Abe, T., Alexander, G., Ananthanarayan, B., Babich, A. A., Bharadwaj, V., Barber, D., Bartl, A., Brachmann, A., Chen, S., Clarke, J., Clendenin, J. E., Dainton, J., Desch, K., Diehl, M., Dobos, B., Dorland, T., Eberl, H., Ellis, J., Flöttmann, K., Fraas, H., Franco-Sollova, F., Franke, F., Freitas, A., Goodson, J., Gray, J., Han, A., Heinemeyer, S., Hesselbach, S., Hirose, T., Hohenwarter-Sodek, K., Kalinowski, J., Kernreiter, T., Kittel, O., Kraml, S., Majerotto, W., Martinez, A., Martyn, H. -U., Menges, W., Mikhailichenko, A., Mönig, K., Moffeit, K., Moretti, S., Nachtmann, O., Nagel, F., Nakanishi, T., Nauenberg, U., Omori, T., Osland, P., Pankov, A. A., Paver, N., Pitthan, R., Pöschl, R., Porod, W., Proulx, J., Richardson, P., Riemann, S., Rindani, S. D., Rizzo, T. G., Schüler, P., Schwanenberger, C., Scott, D., Sheppard, J., Singh, R. K., Spiesberger, H., Stahl, A., Steiner, H., Wagner, A., Weiglein, G., Wilson, G. W., Woods, M., Zerwas, P., Zhang, J. & Zomer, F. (2005). The role of polarized positrons and electrons in revealing fundamental interactions at the Linear Collider. ArXiv High Energy Physics - Phenomenology e-prints arXiv:hep-ph/0507011-.
- Mrenna, S. & Richardson, P. (2004). Matching matrix elements and parton showers with HERWIG and PYTHIA. Journal of High Energy Physics 2004(05): 040.
- CLIC Physics Working Group, Accomando, E., Aranda, A., Ateser, E., Balazs, C., Bardin, D., Barklow, T., Battaglia, M., Beenakker, W., Berge, S., Blair, G., Boos, E., Boudjema, F., Braun, H., Burikham, P., Burkhardt, H., Cacciari, M., Cakir, O., Ciftci, A., Ciftci, R., Cox, B., Da Via, C., Datta, A., De Curtis, S., De Roeck, A., Diehl, M., Djouadi, A., Dominici, D., Ellis, J., Ferrari, A., Forshaw, J., Frey, A., Giudice, G. Godbole, R., Gruwe, M., Guignard, G., Han, T., Heinemeyer, S., Heusch, C., Hewett, J., Jadach, S., Jarron, P., Kenney, C., Kirca, Z., Klasen, M. Kong, K., Kramer, M., Kraml, S., Landsberg, G., Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz, J. Matchev, K., Moortgat-Pick, G., Muhlleitner, M., Nachtmann, O., Nagel, F., Olive, K., Pancheri, G., Pape, L., Parker, S., Piccolo, M., Porod, W., Recepoglu, E., Richardson, P., Riemann, T., Rizzo, T., Ronan, M., Royon, C., Salmi, L., Schulte, D., Settles, R., Sjostrand, T., Spira, M., Sultansoy, S., Telnov, V., Treille, D., Velasco, M., Verzegnassi, C., Weiglein, G., Weng, J., Wengler, T., Werthenbach, A., Wilson, G., Wilson, I. & Zimmermann, F. (2004). Physics at the CLIC Multi-TeV Linear Collider. ArXiv High Energy Physics - Phenomenology e-prints arXiv:hep-ph/0412251-.
- Skands, P., Allanach, B. C., Baer, H., Balazs, C., Belanger, G., Boudjema, F., Djouadi, A., Godbole, R., Guasch, J., Heinemeyer, S., Kilian, W., Kneur, J.-L., Kraml, S., Moortgat, F., Moretti, S., Muhlleitner, M., Porod, W., Pukhov, A., Richardson, P., Schumann, S., & Slavich, P., Spira, M. and Weiglein, G. (2004). SUSY Les Houches Accord: Interfacing SUSY Spectrum Calculators, Decay Packages, and Event Generators. Journal of High Energy Physics 7: 36-.
- Harris, C. M., Richardson, P. & Webber, B.R. (2003). CHARYBDIS: a black hole event generator. Journal of High Energy Physics 2003(08): 033.
- Barr, Alan J., Lester, Christopher G., Parker, M. Andy, & Allanach, Ben C. and Richardson, Peter (2003). Discovering anomaly-mediated supersymmetry at the LHC. Journal of High Energy Physics 3: 45-.
- Dedes, Athanasios, Dreiner, Herbi & Richardson, Peter (2002). Attempts at explaining the NuTeV observation of dimuon events. Physical Review D 65(1): 015001.
- Moretti, Stefano, Odagiri, Kosuke, Richardson, Peter, & Seymour, Michael H. and Webber, Bryan R. (2002). Implementation of supersymmetric processes in the HERWIG event generator. Journal of High Energy Physics 4: 28-.
- Allanach, Ben C., Harris, Christopher M., Parker, M. Andy, & Richardson, Peter and Webber, Bryan R. (2001). Detecting exotic heavy leptons at the large hadron collider. Journal of High Energy Physics 8: 51-.
- Dreiner, Herbi, Richardson, Peter and Seymour, Mike (2001). Resonant slepton production in hadron-hadron collisions. Physical Review D 63: 055008-.
- Allanach, Ben C., Barr, Alan J., Drage, Lee, Lester, Christopher G., Morgan, Debbie, Parker, M. Andy, Webber, Bryan R. and & Richardson, Peter (2001). Measuring supersymmetric particle masses at the LHC in scenarios with baryon-number R-parity violating couplings. Journal of High Energy Physics 3: 48-.
- Hinchliffe, I. & Richardson, P. (2001). DURHAM IPPP WORKSHOP PAPER: Supersymmetric models and collider signatures. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 27: 2485-2496.
- Allanach, Ben C., Barr, A. J., Parker, M. A., Richardson, & P. and Webber, B. R. (2001). Extracting the flavour structure of a baryon-number R-parity violating coupling at the LHC. Journal of High Energy Physics 9: 21-.
- Richardson, P. (2001). Spin correlations in Monte Carlo simulations. Journal of High Energy Physics 2001(11): 029.
- Corcella, G., Knowles, I. G., Marchesini, G. Moretti, S., Odagiri, K., Richardson, P., Seymour, M. H. & Webber, B. R. (2001). HERWIG 6: an event generator for hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons (including supersymmetric processes). Journal of High Energy Physics 2001(01): 10.
- Choudhury, Debajyoti, Dreiner, Herbi, Richardson, Peter & Sarkar, Subir (2000). Supersymmetric solution to the KARMEN time anomaly. Physical Review D 61.
- Dreiner, Herbert, Seymour, Mike H. and Richardson, Peter (2000). Parton-shower simulations of R-parity violating supersymmetric models. Journal of High Energy Physics 4: 8-.
Other (Print)
- Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Ribon, A., Richardson, P., Seymour, M.H., Stephens, P. & Webber, B.R. (2006). Herwig++ 2.0 beta release note.
- Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Ribon, A., Richardson, P., Seymour, M.H., Stephens, P. & Webber, B.R. (2006). Herwig++ 2.0 release note.
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Mr. Tommy Smith
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