Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology

The Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group (TPPC) in the Physics Department of King’s College London has grown over the past two decades to become the leading particle phenomenology group in London and one of the more prominent UK centres for particle phenomenology internationally.

Our profile is quite diverse: we prioritise quests for new physics beyond the standard model and have fully embraced all new experimental and observational perspectives on the field. The research goals of the group involve devising both theories and experimental tests of new scenarios beyond the standard model physics, ranging from particle physics phenomenology at colliders through particle astrophysics and cosmology to gravity. More often than not, members of the group develop new techniques to shed light on big problems, rather than looking for problems to solve with a fixed set of techniques. Taking this approach we naturally embrace inter-disciplinarity while the central goal of all our efforts remains to address the big problems in particle physics and cosmology.

The aim of the group is to cover an arc of activities stretching from particle physics at colliders through other laboratory techniques, astroparticle physics and gravitational waves to astrophysical constraints on theories. At the core of all our activities are particle physics theories beyond the standard model, and our sincere hope is that by applying many different probes and techniques to particle physics, we will be able to understand and tackle many of the important questions in science.

Members

Bobby Acharya

Professor

Wenyuan Ai

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Jean Alexandre

Clelia Altomonte

PhD Student

Drew Backhouse

PhD Student

Charles Badger

PhD Student

Daniel Baldwin

PhD Student

Ankit Beniwal

Postdoctoral Research Associate

John Carlton

PhD Student

Lewis Croney

PhD Student

Eloy de Jong

PhD Student

Matthew Elley

PhD Student

John Ellis

Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics

Malcolm Fairbairn

Professor

Bo-Xuan Ge

PhD Student

Ruth Gregory

Head of Department of Physics

Jeffrey Grube

Lecturer in Physics Education

Ansh Gupta

PhD Student

Michelle Gurevich

PhD Student

Louis Hamaide

PhD Student

Shiqian Hu

PhD Student

Alexander Jenkins

PhD Student

Liina Jukko

PhD Student

Nikolaos Kouvatsos

PhD Student

Eugene Lim

Professor of Theoretical Physics

Lionel London

Proleptic Lecturer

Angelo Maggi

PhD Student

David Marsh

Proleptic Lecturer

Katarina Martinovic

PhD Student

Nick Mavromatos

Professor

Christopher McCabe

Reader in Physics

Ken Mimasu

Research Associate

Silvia Pla García

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Nicole Righi

Research Associate

Claire Rigouzzo

PhD Student

Mairi Sakellariadou

Professor

Sarben Sarkar

Professor

Tiann-Tevong You

Lecturer in Physics

Furqaan Yusaf

Senior Lecturer

The Attainment Gap in Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Pooni, C., Coulshed, H., Islam, T. & Ward, L., 15 Jun 2021. Research output: Contribution to conference types › Other › peer-review
Understanding the Awarding Gap in Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Science at King's
Pooni, C., Serrajòrdia, J. C., Zahid, M., Islam, T., Coulshed, H. & Ward, L., 15 Jun 2022. Research output: Contribution to conference types › Other › peer-review
Geodesic deviation in Sáez–Ballester theory
Rasouli, S. M. M., Sakellariadou, M. & Moniz, P. V., Sep 2022, In: Physics of the Dark Universe. 37, 101112. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2022.101112
Detectability of the gravitational-wave background produced by magnetar giant flares
Kouvatsos, N., Lasky, P. D., Quitzow-James, R. & Sakellariadou, M., 15 Sep 2022, In: Physical Review D. 106, 6, 063007. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.063007
Symmetry restoration, tunneling, and the null energy condition
Alexandre, J. & Polonyi, J., 15 Sep 2022, In: Physical Review D. 106, 6, 065008. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.065008
Measurement of Higgs boson decay into b-quarks in associated production with a top-quark pair in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
The ATLAS Collaboration, Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D. C., Abed Abud, A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D. K., Abidi, S. H., Aboulhorma, A., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abulaiti, Y., Abusleme Hoffman, A. C., Acharya, B. S., Achkar, B., Adam, L., Adam Bourdarios, C., Adamczyk, L., Adamek, L., Addepalli, S. V., & 31 othersAdelman, J., Adiguzel, A., Adorni, S., Adye, T., Affolder, A. A., Afik, Y., Agapopoulou, C., Agaras, M. N., Agarwala, J., Aggarwal, A., Agheorghiesei, C., Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A., Ahmad, A., Ahmadov, F., Ahmed, W. S., Ai, X., Aielli, G., Aizenberg, I., Akatsuka, S., Akbiyik, M., Åkesson, T. P. A., Akimov, A. V., Al Khoury, K., Alberghi, G. L., Albert, J., Albicocco, P., Alconada Verzini, M. J., Alderweireldt, S., Aleksa, M., Aleksandrov, I. N. & Alexa, C., Jun 2022, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022, 6, 97. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2022)097
Weak lensing "post-Born" effects are equivalent to pure lens-lens couplings
Denton-Turner, O. & Lim, E. A., 25 Aug 2022, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2022, 8, 053. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/08/053
SMEFT analysis of mW
Bagnaschi, E., Ellis, J., Madigan, M., Mimasu, K., Sanz, V. & You, T., Aug 2022, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022, 8, 308. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2022)308
Measurements of Higgs boson production cross-sections in the H → τ + τ − decay channel in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
The ATLAS Collaboration, Aug 2022, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022, 8, 175. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2022)175
Discrete spacetime symmetries, second quantization, and inner products in a non-Hermitian Dirac fermionic field theory
Alexandre, J., Ellis, J. & Millington, P., 15 Sep 2022, In: Phys. Rev. D. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Seminars

The Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology series covers research subjects from the fundamental aspects of String Theory up to dark energy and dark matter and the physics of the early universe. The TPPC seminars normally take place on Wednesdays at 15.15. For info, please contact christopher.mccabe@kcl.ac.uk

There are currently no vacancies in the TPPC research group. Vacancies in the group will be listed here when they become available.

Group lead

Malcolm Fairbairn

Professor

Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology

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