Peter Richardson, MA, MSci, DPhil

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

Supervises

• Mr Ryan Moodie
• Mr. Tommy Smith

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++.
• 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 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, D., Richardson, P. & Siódmok, A. (2017). Colour Reconnections in Quark and Gluon Jets in Herwig 7. Acta Physica Polonica B 48(6): 1167-1173.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, 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
• Richardson, Peter & Winn, David (2012). Investigation of Monte Carlo Uncertainties on Higgs Boson searches using Jet Substructure. The European physical journal C 72: 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. The European physical journal C 72: 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. 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.
• 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., 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, 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. 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.
• 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. & 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 2004(05): 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 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-.
• 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-.
• 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.
• 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 2001(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-.

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.

Report

• Alwall, Johan, Boos, E., Dudko, L., Gigg, M., Herquet, M., Pukhov, A., Richardson, P., Sherstnev, A. & Skands, P. (2008). A Les Houches Interface for BSM Generators. United States, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).