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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Professor Maria Ubiali

Career

  • 2017-date: University Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2017-date: Sheila Edmonds Lecturer in Mathematics, Newnham College, Cambridge, UK
  • 2016-date: Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow
  • 2014-2017: Senior Research Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK
  • 2014-2016: Postdoc, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2013-2014: Postdoc, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK 
  • 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

  • Parton distributions from high-precision collider data


    NNPDF Collaboration (Richard D. Ball et al.)


    Eur.Phys.J. C77 (2017) no.10, 663.
  • The impact of the LHC Z-boson transverse momentum data on PDF determinations


    Radja Boughezal, Alberto Guffanti, Frank Petriello, Maria Ubiali


    JHEP 1707 (2017) 130.
  • Radiative distortion of kinematic edges in cascade decays


    Martin Beneke, Laura Jenniches, Alexander Mück, Maria Ubiali


    Phys.Lett. B770 (2017) 539-545.
  • Higgs production in bottom-quark fusion: matching beyond leading order


    By Stefano Forte, Davide Napoletano, Maria Ubiali


    Phys.Lett. B763 (2016) 190-196.
  • Anatomy of double heavy-quark initiated processes


    By Matthew Lim, Fabio Maltoni, Giovanni Ridolfi, Maria Ubiali.


    JHEP 1609 (2016) 132.
  • Heavy charged Higgs boson production at the LHC


    By Celine Degrande, Maria Ubiali, Marius Wiesemann, Marco Zaro.


    JHEP 1510 (2015) 145
  • Inclusive Top-Pair Production Phenomenology with TOPIXS


    By M. Beneke, P. Falgari, S. Klein, J. Piclum, C. Schwinn, M. Ubiali, F. Yan.


    JHEP 1207 (2012) 194.
  • b-initiated processes at the LHC: a reappraisal


    By Fabio Maltoni, Giovanni Ridolfi, Maria Ubiali.


    JHEP 1207 (2012) 022, Erratum: JHEP 1304 (2013) 095
  • A first unbiased global NLO determination of parton distributions and their uncertainties


    By Richard D. Ball, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Alberto Guffanti, Jose I. Latorre, Juan Rojo, Maria Ubiali.


    Nucl.Phys. B838 (2010) 136-206.
  • Borel resummation of soft gluon radiation and higher twists


    By Stefano Forte, Giovanni Ridolfi, Joan Rojo, Maria Ubiali.


    Phys.Lett. B635 (2006) 313-319.

Publications

On the coupling of axion-like particles to the top quark
F Esser, M Madigan, V Sanz, M Ubiali
(2023)
Parton distributions with scale uncertainties: a Monte Carlo sampling approach
Z Kassabov, M Ubiali, C Voisey
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2023)
2023,
148
(DOI: 10.1007/jhep03(2023)148)
The top quark legacy of the LHC Run II for PDF and SMEFT analyses
Z Kassabov, M Madigan, L Mantani, J Moore, MM Alvarado, J Rojo, M Ubiali
(2023)
Response to "Parton distributions need representative sampling"
TNNPDF Collaboration, RD Ball, J Cruz-Martinez, LD Debbio, S Forte, Z Kassabov, ER Nocera, J Rojo, R Stegeman, M Ubiali
(2022)
Resummation effects in the bottom-quark fragmentation function
F Maltoni, G Ridolfi, M Ubiali, M Zaro
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2022)
2022,
27
(DOI: 10.1007/jhep10(2022)027)
Precision QCD, Hadronic Structure & Forward QCD, Heavy Ions: Report of Energy Frontier Topical Groups 5, 6, 7 submitted to Snowmass 2021
M Begel, S Hoeche, M Schmitt, H-W Lin, PM Nadolsky, C Royon, Y-J Lee, S Mukherjee, C Baldenegro, J Campbell, G Chachamis, FG Celiberto, AM Cooper-Sarkar, D d'Enterria, M Diefenthaler, M Fucilla, MV Garzelli, M Guzzi, M Hentschinski, TJ Hobbs, J Huston, J Isaacson, SR Klein, F Kling, P Kotko, YV Kovchegov, G Krintiras, AS Kronfeld, K Kutak, B Mistlberger, I Moult, S Mrenna, B Nachman, M Narain, FI Olness, A Papa, RD Pisarski, M Pitt, S Rappoccio, L Reina, J Reuter, MH Reno, GP Salam, M Strikman, N Tran, A Tricoli, M Ubiali, AV Hameren, A Vossen, K Xie
(2022)
The dark side of the proton
M McCullough, J Moore, M Ubiali
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2022)
2022,
19
(DOI: 10.1007/jhep08(2022)019)
The dark side of the proton
M McCullough, J Moore, M Ubiali
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2022)
2022,
19
(DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2022)019)
Resummation effects in the bottom-quark fragmentation function
F Maltoni, G Ridolfi, M Ubiali, M Zaro
(2022)
(DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2022)027)
Parton distributions with scale uncertainties: a MonteCarlo sampling approach
Z Kassabov, M Ubiali, C Voisey
(2022)
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Email

M.Ubiali@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

B1.16

Telephone

01223 766870

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