Staff profile

Dr Adrian Signer

(email at adrian.signer@durham.ac.uk)

Research Groups

• Elementary Particle Theory

Research Interests

• Particle physics phenomenology
• Quantum field theory
• Supersymmetry

Publications

Journal papers: academic

• Pineda, A. & Signer, A. (2007). Heavy quark pair production near threshold with potential non-relativistic QCD. Nuclear Physics B 762(1-2): 67-94.
• Pineda, A. & Signer, A. (2006). Renormalization group improved sum rule analysis for the bottom-quark mass. Physical Review D 73(11): 111501.
• Signer, A. & Stöckinger, D. (2005). Factorization and regularization by dimensional reduction. Physics Letters B 626(1-4): 127-138.
• Beneke, M., Chapovsky, A. P., Signer, A. & Zanderighi, G. (2004). Effective theory approach to unstable particle production. Physical Review Letters 93(1): 011602.
• Beneke, M., Chapovsky, A. P., Signer, A. & Zanderighi, G. (2004). Effective theory calculation of resonant high-energy scattering. Nuclear Physics B 686(1-2): 205-247.
• Forde, Darren A. & Signer, Adrian (2004). Infrared-finite amplitudes for massless gauge theories. Nuclear Physics B 684: 125-161.
• Beneke, M., Kauer, N., Signer, A. and Zanderighi, G. (2004). Towards pair production near threshold with unstable particle effective theory. ArXiv High Energy Physics - Phenomenology e-prints arXiv:hep-ph/0411008-.
• Adamson, K.L., de Florian, D. & Signer, A. (2003). Gluon induced contributions to Zγ production at hadron colliders. Physical Review D 67: 034016-.
• Adamson, K. L., de Florian, D. & Signer, A. (2002). Gluon induced contributions to WZ and Wγ production at NNLO. Physical Review D 65(9): 094041.
• Chapovsky, A. P., Khoze, V. A., Signer, A. and Stirling, & W. J. (2002). Non-factorizable corrections and effective field theories. Nuclear Physics B 621: 257-302.
• Dervan, P. J., Signer, A., Stirling, W. J. and & Werthenbach, A. (2000). Anomalous triple and quartic gauge boson couplings. Journal of Physics G Nuclear Physics 26: 607-615.
• de Florian, D. & Signer, A. (2000). Wγ and Zγ production at hadron colliders. European Physical Journal C 16: 105-114.
• de Florian, Daniel, Frixione, Stefano, Signer, Adrian and & Vogelsang, Werner (1999). Next-to-leading order jet cross sections in polarized hadronic collisions. Nuclear Physics B 539: 455-476.
• Beneke, M., Signer, A. & Smirnov, V.A. (1999). Top quark production near threshold and the top quark mass. Physics Letters B 454: 137-146.
• Dixon, L., Kunszt, Z. & Signer, A. (1999). Vector boson pair production in hadronic collisions at O(α_s): Lepton correlations and anomalous couplings. Physical Review D 60: 114037-.
• Dixon, L., Kunszt, Z. & Signer, A. (1998). Helicity amplitudes for ≀(α_s) production of W⁺ W^-, W^+/-Z, Z Z, W^+/-γ, or Z γ pairs at hadron colliders. Nuclear Physics B 531: 3-23.
• Beneke, M., Signer, A. & Smirnov, V.A. (1998). Two-Loop Corrections to the Leptonic Decays of Quarkonium. Physical Review Letters 80: 2535-2538.
• Dixon, Lance & Signer, Adrian (1997). Complete O(α³_s) results for e⁺e^--->(γ,Z)-->four jets. Physical Review D 56: 4031-4038.
• Signer, Adrian & Dixon, Lance (1997). Electron-Positron Annihilation into Four Jets at Next-to-Leading Order in α_s. Physical Review Letters 78: 811-814.
• Signer, Adrian (1997). MENLO_PARC, a program for e + e - 4 jets at next-to-leading order. Computer Physics Communications 106: 125-138.
• Frixione, S., Kunszt, Z. & Signer, A. (1996). Three-jet cross sections to next-to-leading order. Nuclear Physics B 467: 399-442.
• Signer, Adrian (1995). One-loop corrections to five-parton amplitudes with external photons. Physics Letters B 357: 204-210.
• Kunszt, Zoltan, Signer, Adrian and Trócsányi, Zoltán (1994). One-loop helicity amplitudes for all 2 --> 2 processes in QCD and N = 1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Nuclear Physics B 411: 397-442.
• Kunszt, Zoltan, Signer, Adrian and Trócsányi, Zoltán (1994). One-loop radiative corrections to the helicity amplitudes of QCD processes involving four quarks and one gluon. Physics Letters B 336: 529-536.
• Kunszt, Zoltan, Signer, Adrian and Trócsányi, Zoltán (1994). Singular terms of helicity amplitudes at one loop in QCD and the soft limit of the cross sections of multi-parton processes. Nuclear Physics B 420: 550-564.