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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

 

 

Research interests

I work in the field of hadron spectroscopy which can be understood using Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), part of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. QCD is a strongly-coupled field theory at the energies where hadrons arise, meaning that perturbation theory cannot be applied, posing a significant calculational challenge. One method which has shown great promise in recent years is Lattice QCD, where the quantum fluctuations in a finite volume are sampled numerically using Monte-Carlo methods, to extract finite volume spectra. Using a mapping originally derived by Lüscher and extended by many others, these finite volume energy levels can be used to constrain infinite volume hadron scattering amplitudes. My current research is on numerical extractions of coupled-channel scattering amplitudes, which are in turn used to understand hadron resonances as poles in the complex energy plane.

I am a member of the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration: hadspec.org

 

Career

2019-present Royal Society University Research Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK
2018-2019 RS-SFI University Research Fellow, School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2016-2018 Postdoc, School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2015-2016 Postdoc, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK
2012-2015 Postdoc, Old Dominion University (and Jefferson Lab), Virginia, USA
2010-2012 Postdoc, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA
2006-2010 PhD student, IPPP, University of Durham, UK

Publications

Highly excited $B$, $B_s$ and $B_c$ meson spectroscopy from lattice QCD
L Gayer, SM Ryan, DJ Wilson
(2024)
$DK/D\pi$ scattering and an exotic virtual bound state at the $SU(3)$ flavour symmetric point from lattice QCD
JDE Yeo, CE Thomas, DJ Wilson
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2024)
2024,
12
Scalar and tensor charmonium resonances in coupled-channel scattering from QCD
DJ Wilson, CE Thomas, JJ Dudek, RG Edwards, Hadron Spectrum Collaboration
– Phys Rev Lett
(2024)
132,
241901
Charmonium $\chi_{c0}$ and $\chi_{c2}$ resonances in coupled-channel scattering from lattice QCD
DJ Wilson, CE Thomas, JJ Dudek, RG Edwards
– Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2024)
109,
114503
Axial-Vector D1 Hadrons in D∗π Scattering from QCD
N Lang, DJ Wilson, Hadron Spectrum Collaboration
– Physical Review Letters
(2022)
129,
252001
Axial-vector $D_1$ hadrons in $D^\ast\pi$ scattering from QCD
N Lang, DJ Wilson
– Phys. Rev. Lett.
(2022)
129,
252001
Decays of an exotic $1^{-+}$ hybrid meson resonance in QCD
AJ Woss, JJ Dudek, RG Edwards, CE Thomas, DJ Wilson
– Physical Review D
(2021)
103,
054502
Excited and exotic bottomonium spectroscopy from lattice QCD
SM Ryan, DJ Wilson
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2021)
2021,
214
DK I = 0, $ D\overline{K} $ I = 0, 1 scattering and the $ {D}_{s0}^{\ast } $(2317) from lattice QCD
GKC Cheung, CE Thomas, DJ Wilson, G Moir, M Peardon, SM Ryan
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2021)
2021,
100
The energy-dependent $\pi^+ \pi^+ \pi^+$ scattering amplitude from QCD
MT Hansen, RA Briceño, RG Edwards, CE Thomas, DJ Wilson, Hadron Spectrum Collaboration
– Physical Review Letters
(2021)
126,
012001
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Room

B0.38