University of Edinburgh
Particle Physics Theory Group
| Richard D Ball |
- University post: Professor
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School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
James Clerk Maxwell Building
Kings' Buildings
Mayfield Road
Edinburgh EH9 3JZ
Scotland
- Tel: [+44] [0]131 650 52 48
Fax: [+44] [0]131 650 59 02
Room no: 4418 - E-mail: rdb@ph.ed.ac.uk
Personal Biography:
In the past I have been: a working lad in Bolton, a student at St. John's College, Cambridge, a graduate student in DAMTP, Cambridge, an SERC Research Fellow at Imperial College, a Research Associate at ITP, SUNY at Stony Brook, a Research Fellow at NBI, Copenhagen, a Royal Society URF in Theoretical Physics and lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford, and a CERN Fellow and Associate. I am currently the Head of the PPT group in Edinburgh.
Research interests:
My main interest in life is the study of elementary particles and their interactions, as revealed by experiments at particle colliders at CERN and Fermilab,. Currently I am working on the application of perturbative QCD to high energy processes, with the particular aim of understanding hadronic collisions at the Tevatron and LHC. I am a member of the NNPDF collaboration, to determine unbiased parton distributions from a global analysis of deep inelastic and hadronic data sets. I am also interested in many other aspects of QCD physics, such as HERA physics and spin physics, and have in the past worked on the formulation of effective field theories, the exact renormalization group, and the structure of chiral gauge theories. For a more detailed impression of my interests check out my publication list.
Current teaching: