Staff profile

Teaching activity

L1: Wave Phenomena, L3: Computer labs

Research 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.

Conference Paper

• Arneodo, M., Diehl, M., Khoze, V., & Newman, P. (2009). Working Group on Diffraction: Executive Summary. In H. Jung, & A. De Roeck (Eds.), Proceedings of the workshop HERA and the LHC: 2nd workshop on the implications of HERA for LHC physics, 2006 - 2008, Hamburg - Geneva (397-400)
• Bähr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Latunde-Dada, O., …Webberd, B. (2009). Herwig++ Status Report. In H. Jung, & A. De Roeck (Eds.), Proceedings of the workshop HERA and the LHC : 2006 - 2008, Hamburg - Geneva (752-757). https://doi.org/10.3204/desy-proc-2009-02/46
• Hamilton, K., & Richardson, P. (2006). Simulation of QED radiation in particle decays using the YFS formalism.
• Yao, W. -., Richardson, P., & others. (2006). Review of particle physics.
• Aguilar-Saavedra, J., Richardson, P., & others. (2006). Supersymmetry parameter analysis: SPA convention and project.

Journal Article

• Darmé, L., Degrande, C., Duhr, C., Fuks, B., Goodsell, M., Heinrich, G., …Zaro, M. (2023). UFO 2.0: the ‘Universal Feynman Output’ format. The European Physical Journal C, 83(7), Article 631. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11780-9
• Masouminia, M., & Richardson, P. (2022). Implementation of angularly ordered electroweak parton shower in Herwig 7. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(4), Article 112. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282022%29112
• Plehn, T., Reimitz, P., & Richardson, P. (2020). Hadronic footprint of GeV-mass dark matter. SciPost Physics, 8(6), Article 092. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.8.6.092
• Bierlich, C., Buckley, A., Butterworth, J., Christensen, C. H., Corpe, L., Grellscheid, D., …Siegert, F. (2020). Robust Independent Validation of Experiment and Theory: Rivet version 3. SciPost Physics, 8(2), Article 026. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.8.2.026
• Richardson, P., & Webster, S. (2019). Spin correlations in parton shower simulations. The European Physical Journal C, 80(2), Article 83. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7429-5
• Reichelt, D., Richardson, P., & Siodmok, A. (2017). Improving the simulation of quark and gluon jets with Herwig 7. The European Physical Journal C, 77(12), Article 876. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5374-8
• 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. https://doi.org/10.5506/aphyspolb.48.1167
• Bellm, J., Plätzer, S., Richardson, P., Siódmok, A., & Webster, S. (2016). Reweighting parton showers. Physical Review D, 94(3), Article 034028. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.94.034028
• Bellm, J., Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Plätzer, S., Rauch, M., Reuschle, C., …Rauch, D. (2016). Herwig 7.0/Herwig++ 3.0 release note. The European Physical Journal C, 76(4), Article 196. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4018-8
• Olive, K. (2016). Review of Particle Physics. Chinese Physics C, 40(10), Article 100001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/40/10/100001
• Fuks, B., Richardson, P., & Wilcock, A. (2015). Studying the sensitivity of monotop probes to compressed supersymmetric scenarios at the LHC. The European Physical Journal C, 75(7), Article 308. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3530-6
• Richardson, P., & Wilcock, A. (2014). Monte Carlo Simulation of Hard Radiation in Decays in Beyond the Standard Model Physics in Herwig++. The European Physical Journal C, 74(1), Article 2713. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2713-x
• D'Errico, L., & Richardson, P. (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), Article 2042. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2042-x
• Grellscheid, D., Jaeckel, J., Khoze, 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), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03%282012%29078
• D'Errico, L., & Richardson, P. (2012). Next-to-Leading-Order Monte Carlo Simulation of Diphoton Production in Hadronic Collisions. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(2), Article 130. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02%282012%29130
• Arnold, K., d'Errico, L., Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., & others. (2012). Herwig++ 2.6 Release Note
• Vasquez, D. A., Belanger, G., Boehm, C., Da Silva, J., Richardson, P., & Wymant, C. (2012). 125 GeV Higgs boson in the NMSSM in light of the LHC results and astrophysics constraints. Physical Review D, 86(3), Article 035023. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.86.035023
• Jaeckel, J., Khoze, V., Plehn, T., & Richardson, P. (2012). Travels on the squark-gluino mass plane. Physical Review D, 85(1), Article 015015. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.85.015015
• Richardson, P., & Winn, D. (2012). Investigation of Monte Carlo Uncertainties on Higgs Boson searches using Jet Substructure. The European Physical Journal C, 72, https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2178-8
• Fridman-Rojas, I., & Richardson, P. (2012). Next-to-Leading Order Simulation of Slepton Pair Production
• Richardson, P., Sadykov, R., Sapronov, A., Seymour, M., & Skands, P. (2012). QCD parton showers and NLO EW corrections to Drell-Yan. Journal of High Energy Physics, 1206, https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282012%29090
• Beringer, J., & others. (2012). Review of Particle Physics (RPP). Physical Review D, D86, https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.86.010001
• Richardson, P., & Winn, D. (2012). Simulation of Sextet Diquark Production. The European Physical Journal C, 72, https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1862-z
• Buckley, A., Butterworth, J., Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Hoche, S., Hoeth, H., …Webber, B. (2011). General-purpose event generators for LHC Physics. Physics Reports, 504(5), 145-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2011.03.005
• Dolan, M., Grellscheid, D., Jaeckel, J., Khoze, 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), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282011%29095
• Abdesselam, A., Bergeaas Kuutmann, E., Bitenc, U., Brooijmans, G., Butterworth, J., Glover, N., & et al. (2011). Boosted objects: A Probe of beyond the Standard Model physics. The European Physical Journal C, 71, https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1661-y
• Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Papaefstathiou, A., Platzer, S., & others. (2011). Herwig++ 2.5 Release Note
• Nakamura, K., & others. (2010). Review of particle physics. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, G37, https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/37/7a/075021
• Butterworth, J., 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), Article 116. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/116
• Allanach, B., Balazs, C., Belanger, G., Bernhardt, M., Boudjema, F., & others. (2009). SUSY Les Houches Accord 2. Computer Physics Communications, 180, 8-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2008.08.004
• 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), Article 038. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/038
• Bähr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Latunde-Dada, O., …Webber, B. (2008). Herwig++ Physics and Manual. The European Physical Journal C, 58(4), 639-707. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0798-9
• Bahr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., & others. (2008). Herwig++ 2.3 Release Note
• Bahr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Latunde-Dada, O., …Webber, B. (2008). Herwig++ 2.2 Release Note
• Brooijmans, G. H., Delgado, A., Dobrescu, B. A., Grojean, C., Narain, M., & others. (2008). New Physics at the LHC: A Les Houches Report. Physics at TeV Colliders 2007 - New Physics Working Group
• Garren, L., Lin, C., Navas, S., Richardson, P., Sjóstrand, T., & others. (2008). Monte Carlo particle numbering scheme
• Bernhardt, M., Dreiner, H., 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), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.78.015016
• Gigg, M., & Richardson, P. (2008). Simulation of Finite Width Effects in Physics Beyond the Standard Model
• Amsler, C., & others. (2008). Review of Particle Physics. Physics Letters B, B667, 1-1340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2008.07.018
• 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), Article 015. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/015
• Bahr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Latunde-Dada, O., …Webber, B. (2007). Herwig++ 2.1 Release Note
• Grellscheid, D., & Richardson, P. (2007). Simulation of Tau Decays in the Herwig++ Event Generator
• Allanach, B., Bernhardt, M., Dreiner, H., Grab, S., Kom, C., & others. (2007). R-Parity violating minimal supergravity at the LHC
• Allanach, B., Bernhardt, M., Dreiner, H., Kom, C., & Richardson, P. (2007). Mass Spectrum in R-Parity Violating mSUGRA and Benchmark Points. Physical Review D, 75(3), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.75.035002
• Gigg, M., & Richardson, P. (2007). Simulation of beyond standard model physics in Herwig++. The European Physical Journal C, 51(4), 989-1008. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0364-x
• Hamilton, K., & Richardson, P. (2007). A simulation of QCD radiation in top quark decays. Journal of High Energy Physics, 0702, https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/069
• Alwall, J., Ballestrero, A., Bartalini, P., Belov, S., Boos, E., Buckley, A., …Zeppenfeld, D. (2007). A standard format for Les Houches event files. Computer Physics Communications, 176(4), 300-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2006.11.010
• Allanach, B. C., Grojean, C., Skands, P. Z., Accomando, E., Azuelos, G., & others. (2006). Les Houches physics at TeV colliders 2005 beyond the standard model working group: Summary report
• Moortgat-Pick, G., Abe, T., Alexander, G., Ananthanarayan, B., Babich, A., Bharadwaj, V., …Zomer, F. (2005). The role of polarized positrons and electrons in revealing fundamental interactions at the Linear Collider
• Kilian, W., Plehn, T., Richardson, P., & Schmidt, E. (2005). Split supersymmetry at colliders. The European Physical Journal C, 39(2), 229-243. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2004-02046-5
• Harris, C. M., Palmer, M. J., Parker, M. A., Richardson, P., Sabetfakhri, A., & Webber, B. R. (2005). Exploring higher dimensional black holes at the Large Hadron Collider. Journal of High Energy Physics, 5, 53-
• Skands, P. Z., Richardson, P., Allanach, B. C., Baer, H., Belanger, G., & others. (2005). A Repository for Beyond-the-Standard-Model Tools
• Mrenna, S., & Richardson, P. (2004). Matching matrix elements and parton showers with HERWIG and PYTHIA. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2004(05), https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/040
• Skands, P., Allanach, B., Baer, H., Balazs, C., Belanger, G., Boudjema, F., …Weiglein, G. (2004). SUSY Les Houches Accord: Interfacing SUSY Spectrum Calculators, Decay Packages, and Event Generators. Journal of High Energy Physics, 7, 36-
• Physics Working Group, C., Accomando, E., Aranda, A., Ateser, E., Balazs, C., Bardin, D., …Zimmermann, F. (2004). Physics at the CLIC Multi-TeV Linear Collider
• Harris, C., Richardson, P., & Webber, B. (2003). CHARYBDIS: a black hole event generator. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2003(08), https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2003/08/033
• Barr, A. J., Lester, C. G., Parker, M. A., Allanach, B. C., & Richardson, P. (2003). Discovering anomaly-mediated supersymmetry at the LHC. Journal of High Energy Physics, 3, 45-
• Moretti, S., Odagiri, K., Richardson, P., Seymour, M. H., & Webber, B. R. (2002). Implementation of supersymmetric processes in the HERWIG event generator. Journal of High Energy Physics, 4, 28-
• Dedes, A., Dreiner, H., & Richardson, P. (2002). Attempts at explaining the NuTeV observation of dimuon events. Physical Review D, 65(1), Article 015001. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.65.015001
• Richardson, P. (2001). Spin correlations in Monte Carlo simulations. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2001(11), Article 029. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2001/11/029
• Allanach, B. C., Barr, A., Parker, M., Richardson, P., & Webber, B. (2001). Extracting the flavour structure of a baryon-number R-parity violating coupling at the LHC. Journal of High Energy Physics, 9, 21-
• Corcella, G., Knowles, I., Marchesini, G., Moretti, S., Odagiri, K., Richardson, P., …Webber, B. (2001). HERWIG 6: an event generator for hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons (including supersymmetric processes). Journal of High Energy Physics, 2001(01), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/010
• Allanach, B. C., Harris, C. M., Parker, M. A., Richardson, P., & Webber, B. R. (2001). Detecting exotic heavy leptons at the large hadron collider. Journal of High Energy Physics, 8, 51-
• Allanach, B. C., Barr, A. J., Drage, L., Lester, C. G., Morgan, D., Parker, M. A., …Richardson, P. (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. https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/27/12/310
• Dreiner, H., Richardson, P., & Seymour, M. (2001). Resonant slepton production in hadron-hadron collisions. Physical Review D, 63, 055008-
• Choudhury, D., Dreiner, H., Richardson, P., & Sarkar, S. (2000). Supersymmetric solution to the KARMEN time anomaly. Physical Review D, 61,
• Dreiner, H., Seymour, M. H., & Richardson, P. (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., …Webber, B. (2006). Herwig++ 2.0 release note
• Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Ribon, A., Richardson, P., Seymour, M., …Webber, B. (2006). Herwig++ 2.0 beta release note

Presentation

• Gigg, M., & Richardson, P. (2007, December). Herwig++
• Allanach, B., Richardson, P., & others. (2006, December). Les Houches 'Physics at TeV colliders 2005' Beyond the standard model working group: Summary report
• Skands, P. Z., Richardson, P., Allanach, B. C., Baer, H., Belanger, G., El Kacimi, M., …Tsuno, S. (2005, May). A repository for beyond-the-standard-model tools
• Dobbs, M., Richardson, P., & others. (2004, December). Les Houches guidebook to Monte Carlo generators for hadron collider physics
• Allanach, B., Richardson, P., & others. (2004, December). Les Houches 'Physics at TeV Colliders 2003' Beyond the Standard Model Working Group: Summary report
• Dedes, A., Dreiner, H., Nierste, U., & Richardson, P. (2002, December). Trilepton events and B/s -> mu+ mu-: No-lose for mSUGRA at the Tevatron?
• Azuelos, G., Richardson, P., & others. (2002, December). The beyond the standard model working group: Summary report
• Corcella, G., Richardson, P., & others. (2002, December). HERWIG 6.5 release note
• Corcella, G., Richardson, P., & others. (2001, December). HERWIG 6.3 release note
• Corcella, G., Richardson, P., & others. (2001, December). HERWIG 6.4 release note
• Richardson, P. (2000, December). Simulations of R-parity violating SUSY models
• Dreiner, H. K., Richardson, P., & Seymour, M. H. (2000, December). Resonant slepton production at the LHC
• Allanach, B., Richardson, P., & others. (1999, December). Searching for R-parity violation at Run-II of the Tevatron
• Abdullin, S., Richardson, P., & others. (1999, December). The SUSY working group: Summary report
• Corcella, G., Richardson, P., & others. (1999, December). HERWIG 6.1 release note
• Dreiner, H. K., Richardson, P., & Seymour, M. H. (1998, December). Resonant slepton production

Report

• Alwall, J., Boos, E., Dudko, L., Gigg, M., Herquet, M., Pukhov, A., …Skands, P. (2008). A Les Houches Interface for BSM Generators. USDOE