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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

A first determination of parton distributions with theoretical uncertainties
R Abdul Khalek, RD Ball, S Carrazza, S Forte, T Giani, Z Kassabov, ER Nocera, RL Pearson, J Rojo, L Rottoli, M Ubiali, C Voisey, M Wilson
– European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
(2019)
79,
838
(DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7364-5)
Can New Physics Hide inside the Proton?
S Carrazza, C Degrande, S Iranipour, J Rojo, M Ubiali
– Physical Review Letters
(2019)
123,
132001
(DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.132001)
Z boson production in bottom-quark fusion: a study of b-mass effects beyond leading order.
S Forte, D Napoletano, M Ubiali
– The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
(2018)
78,
932
(DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6414-8)
Precision determination of the strong coupling constant within a global PDF analysis: NNPDF Collaboration.
RD Ball, S Carrazza, LD Debbio, S Forte, Z Kassabov, J Rojo, E Slade, M Ubiali
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2018)
78,
408
(DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5897-7)
Precision determination of the strong coupling constant within a global PDF analysis: NNPDF Collaboration
RD Ball, S Carrazza, LD Debbio, S Forte, Z Kassabov, J Rojo, E Slade, M Ubiali
– European Physical Journal C
(2018)
78,
408
(DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5897-7)
Pushing the precision frontier at the LHC with V+jets
U Blumenschein, S Breeze, C Debenedetti, E Eren, S Gargiulo, N Glover, JM Lindert, D Maitre, SA Malik, B Penning, SK Pflitsch, D Price, S Richter, M Schonherr, P Schichter, P Torrielli, M Ubiali, N Wardle, AG Zecchinelli
– Proceedings for the workshop on 'Illuminating standard candles a the LHC: V+jets' held at Imperial College London on April 25th-26th
(2018)
1
(DOI: 10.17863/CAM.20495)
Heavy-flavor parton distributions without heavy-flavor matching prescriptions
V Bertone, A Glazov, A Mitov, A Papanastasiou, M Ubiali
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2018)
2018,
46
(DOI: 10.1007/jhep04(2018)046)
Parton distributions from high-precision collider data: NNPDF Collaboration.
TNNPDF Collaboration, RD Ball, V Bertone, S Carrazza, LD Debbio, S Forte, P Groth-Merrild, A Guffanti, NP Hartland, Z Kassabov, JI Latorre, ER Nocera, J Rojo, L Rottoli, E Slade, M Ubiali
– The European Physical Journal C
(2017)
77,
663
(DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5199-5)
Parton distributions from high-precision collider data: NNPDF Collaboration
RD Ball, V Bertone, S Carrazza, LD Debbio, S Forte, P Groth-Merrild, A Guffanti, NP Hartland, Z Kassabov, JI Latorre, ER Nocera, J Rojo, L Rottoli, E Slade, M Ubiali
– European Physical Journal C
(2017)
77,
663
(DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5199-5)
Accurate predictions for charged Higgs production: Closing the m$_{H}$$\pm$ $\sim$ m$_{t}$ window
C Degrande, R Frederix, V Hirschi, M Ubiali, M Wiesemann, M Zaro
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2017)
772,
87
(DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.06.037)
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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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