Career
- 2022-date: Professor of Theoretical Particle Physics and Phenomenology, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2020-date: PI of ERC Starting Grant "Physics Beyond the Standard Proton"
- 2017-date: Sheila Edmonds Lecturer in Mathematics, Newnham College, Cambridge
- 2017-2022: University Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2016-2023: Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow
- 2014-2017: Senior Research Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge
- 2014-2016: Postdoc, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2013-2014: Postdoc, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- 2010-2013: Postdoc, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Research
Maria Ubiali is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics High Energy Physics research group and The Cambridge SUSY Working Group based at the Cavendish Laboratory.
Maria is a particle phenomenologist. Her main research interests include Quantum Chromo Dynamics and Beyond Standard Model phenomenology, the precise determination of the structure of the proton using machine learning techniques and processes involving heavy particles.
Selected Publications
- “Hide and seek: how PDFs can conceal New Physics”
E. Hammou, Z. Kassabov, M. Madigan, L. Mantani, M. Mangano, J. Moore, M. Morales Alvarado, M.Ubiali
JHEP 11 (2023) 090 arXiv - “On the coupling of axion-like particles to the top quark”
F. Esser, M.Madigan, V. Sanz, M. Ubiali
JHEP 09 (2023) 063 arXiv - “The top quark legacy of the LHC Run II for PDF and SMEFT analyses”
(Z. Kassabov, M. Madigan, L. Mantani, J. Moore, Manuel Morales Alvarado, Juan Rojo, M.Ubiali
JHEP 05 (2023) 205 arXiv - “Resummation effects in the bottom-quark fragmentation function”
F. Maltoni, G. Ridolfi, M. Ubiali, M. Zaro
JHEP 10 (2022) 027 arXiv - "Parton distributions with scale uncertainties: a MonteCarlo sampling approach"
(Z. Kassabov, M.Ubiali, C. Voisey
JHEP03(2023)148 arXiv - “The dark side of the proton”
M. McCullogh, J. Moore, M. Ubiali
JHEP 08 (2022) 019 arXiv - “A new generation of simultaneous fits to LHC data using deep learning”
S. Iranipour, M. Ubiali
JHEP 05 (2022) 032 arXiv - ”The Path to Proton Structure at One-Percent Accuracy”
R. D. Ball, S. Carrazza, J. Cruz-Martinez, L. Del Debbio, S. Forte, T. Giani, S. Iranipour, Z. Kassabov, J. I. Latorre, E. R. Nocera, R. L. Pearson, J. Rojo, C. Schwan, R. Stegeman, M. Ubiali, C. Voisey, M. Wilson
Eur.Phys.J.C 82 (2022) 5, 428 arXiv - “An open-source machine learning framework for global analyses of parton distributions”
R. D. Ball, S. Carrazza, J. Cruz-Martinez, L. Del Debbio, S. Forte, T. Giani, S. Iranipour, Z. Kassabov, J. I. Latorre, E. R. Nocera, R. L. Pearson, J. Rojo, C. Schwan, R. Stegeman, M. Ubiali, C. Voisey, M. Wilson
The European Physical Journal C 81, Article number: 958 (2021) arXiv - “Parton distributions in the SMEFT from high energy Drell-Yan tails”
A. Greljo, S. Iranipour, Z. Kassabov, M. Madigan, J. Moore, J. Rojo, M. Ubiali, C. Voisey
JHEP 07 (2021) 122 arXiv - “The strangest proton?”
F. Faura, S. Iranipour, E. Nocera, J. Rojo, M. Ubiali
Eur.Phys.J.C 80 (2020) 12 arXiv - “Single top in PDF fits”
E. Nocera, M. Ubiali, C. Voisey
JHEP 05 (2020) 067 arXiv - “A fragmentation-based study of heavy quark production”
G. Ridolfi, M. Ubiali, M. Zaro
arXiv: 1911.09075 - JHEP 01 (2020) 196 arXiv - “Parton Distributions with Theory Uncertainties: General Formalism and First Phenomenological Studies”
R. Abdul Khalek, R. D. Ball, S. Carrazza, S. Forte, T. Giani, Z. Kassabov, E. R. Nocera, R. L. Pearson, J. Rojo, L. Rottoli, M. Ubiali, C. Voisey, M. Wilson
Eur. Phys. J. C79 (2019) no.11, 931 arXiv - “Can New Physics hide inside the proton?”
S. Carrazza, C. Degrande, S. Iranipour, J. Rojo, M. Ubiali
Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 123, No. 13 Pg. 2001 arXiv
Publications
Parton distributions with threshold resummation
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2015)
2015,
191
(doi: 10.1007/jhep09(2015)191)
Improved cross-section predictions for heavy charged Higgs boson production at the LHC
– Physical Review D
(2015)
91,
075015
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.91.075015)
Parton distributions for the LHC run II
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2015)
2015,
1
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP04(2015)040)
Parton distributions with LHC data
– Nuclear Physics B
(2015)
867,
40
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP04(2015)040)
PDFs and LHC data: current and future constraints
– EPJ Web of Conferences
(2015)
90,
07001
(doi: 10.1051/epjconf/20159007001)
Are bottom PDFs needed at the LHC?
– Proceedings of Science
(2014)
28-April-2014,
Towards the NNPDF3.0 parton set for the second LHC run
– Proceedings of Science
(2014)
28-April-2014,
041
Theoretical issues in PDF determination and associated uncertainties
– Physics Letters B
(2013)
723,
330
Top-pair production in hadron collisions at NNLL
– EPJ Web of Conferences
(2013)
49,
17014
(doi: 10.1051/epjconf/20134917014)
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