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Department of Physics

Research group profiles

Prof Peter Richardson, MA, MSci, DPhil

Professor in the Department of Physics
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43764
Room number: OC207

(email at peter.richardson@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

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.

Research Groups

Publications

Conference papers

  • Skands, P. & others (Published), A repository for beyond-the-standard-model tools.
  • Dedes, A., Dreiner, H. & Richardson, P. (Published), Attempts at explaining the NuTeV observation of dimuon events.
  • Alwall, J. & others (2007), A standard format for Les Houches event files, 176: 300-304.
  • Gigg, Martyn & Richardson, Peter (2007), Herwig++.
  • Gieseke, S. & others (2006), Herwig++ 2.0 beta release note.
  • Gieseke, S. & others (2006), Herwig++ 2.0 release note.
  • 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.
  • Hamilton, Keith & Richardson, Peter (2006), Simulation of QED radiation in particle decays using the YFS formalism, 07: 010.
  • 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.
  • Corcella, G. & others (2002), HERWIG 6.5 release note.
  • Azuelos, G. & others (2002), The beyond the standard model working group: Summary report.
  • Dedes, A., Dreiner, H.K., Nierste, U. & Richardson, P. (2002), Trilepton events and B/s -> mu+ mu-: No-lose for mSUGRA at the Tevatron?.
  • Corcella, G. & others (2001), HERWIG 6.3 release note.
  • Corcella, G. & others (2001), HERWIG 6.4 release note.
  • Dreiner, Herbert K., Richardson, Peter & Seymour, Michael H. (2000), Resonant slepton production at the LHC.
  • Richardson, Peter (2000), Simulations of R-parity violating SUSY models.
  • Corcella, G. & others (1999), HERWIG 6.1 release note.
  • Allanach, B. & others (1999), Searching for R-parity violation at Run-II of the Tevatron.
  • Abdullin, S. & others (1999), The SUSY working group: Summary report.
  • Dreiner, Herbert K., Richardson, Peter & Seymour, Michael H. (1998), Resonant slepton production.

Journal papers: academic

  • Richardson, Peter & Wilcock, Alexandra (2013). Monte Carlo Simulation of Hard Radiation in Decays in Beyond the Standard Model Physics in Herwig++.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Grellscheid, David, Jaeckel, Joerg, Khoze, Valentin V., Richardson, Peter & Wymant, Chris (2012). Direct SUSY Searches at the LHC in the light of LEP Higgs Bounds. JHEP 1203: 078.
  • Arnold, K., d'Errico, L., Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K. & others (2012). Herwig++ 2.6 Release Note.
  • Richardson, Peter & Winn, David (2012). Investigation of Monte Carlo Uncertainties on Higgs Boson searches using Jet Substructure. Eur.Phys.J C72: 2178.
  • Fridman-Rojas, Ilan & Richardson, Peter (2012). Next-to-Leading Order Simulation of Slepton Pair Production.
  • 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, 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.
  • Richardson, Peter & Winn, David (2012). Simulation of Sextet Diquark Production. Eur.Phys.J C72: 1862.
  • Jaeckel, J. , Khoze, V.V. , Plehn, T. & Richardson, P. (2012). Travels on the squark-gluino mass plane. Physical Review D 85(1): 015015.
  • 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.
  • Gieseke, S., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K., Papaefstathiou, A., Platzer, S. & others (2011). Herwig++ 2.5 Release Note.
  • 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(6): 95.
  • 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 modified CKKW matrix element merging approach to angular-ordered parton showers. Journal of High Energy Physics 2009(11): 038.
  • 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. (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.
  • Bahr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K. & others (2008). Herwig++ 2.2 Release Note.
  • Bahr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K. & others (2008). Herwig++ 2.3 Release Note.
  • 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.A., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K. & others (2008). Herwig++ Status Report. 752-757.
  • 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.
  • Amsler, Claude & others (2008). Review of Particle Physics. Phys.Lett B667: 1-1340.
  • Gigg, M.A. & Richardson, P. (2008). Simulation of Finite Width Effects in Physics Beyond the Standard Model.
  • 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.
  • Alwall, Johan, Boos, E., Dudko, L., Gigg, M., Herquet, M. & others (2007). A Les Houches Interface for BSM Generators.
  • Hamilton, Keith & Richardson, Peter (2007). A simulation of QCD radiation in top quark decays. Journal of High Energy Physics 0702: 069.
  • Bahr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M., Grellscheid, D., Hamilton, K. & others (2007). Herwig++ 2.1 Release Note.
  • 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.
  • Allanach, B.C., Bernhardt, M.A., Dreiner, H.K., Grab, S., Kom, C.H. & others (2007). R-Parity violating minimal supergravity at the LHC.
  • Gigg, M. & Richardson, P. (2007). Simulation of beyond standard model physics in Herwig++. The European Physical Journal C 51(4): 989-1008.
  • Grellscheid, David & Richardson, Peter (2007). Simulation of Tau Decays in the Herwig++ Event Generator.
  • 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.
  • Skands, Peter Z., Richardson, Peter, Allanach, Benjamin C., Baer, H., Belanger, G. & others (2005). A Repository for Beyond-the-Standard-Model Tools.
  • 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. and Schmidt, E. (2005). Split Supersymmetry at Colliders. ArXiv High Energy Physics - Phenomenology e-prints arXiv:hep-ph/0507137-.
  • Kilian, W., Plehn, T., Richardson, P. & Schmidt, E. (2005). Split supersymmetry at colliders. European Physical Journal C 39(2): 229-243.
  • 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 5: 040.
  • CLIC Physics Working Group: E. Accomando, 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., Diaz-Cruz, J. Lorenzo, 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. and 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 8: 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 and Richardson, Peter (2002). Attempts at explaining the NuTeV observation of dimuon events. Physical Review D 65: 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-.
  • Hinchliffe, I. & Richardson, P. (2001). DURHAM IPPP WORKSHOP PAPER: Supersymmetric models and collider signatures. Journal of Physics G Nuclear 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-.
  • 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 1: 010.
  • 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-.
  • Dreiner, Herbi, Richardson, Peter and Seymour, Mike (2001). Resonant slepton production in hadron-hadron collisions. Physical Review D 63: 055008-.
  • Richardson, P. (2001). Spin correlations in Monte Carlo simulations. Journal of High Energy Physics 11: 029.
  • 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-.
  • Choudhury, Debajyoti, Dreiner, Herbi, Richardson, Peter, & and Sarkar, Subir (2000). Supersymmetric solution to the KARMEN time anomaly. Physical Review D 61: 095009-.

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