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Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group

Career

           2014 --     University Gender Equality Champion for STEMM subjects

           2013---     Professor of Mathematical Physics (1967), DAMTP, Cambridge University

  • 2002-2013 Professor of Theoretical Physics, DAMTP, Cambridge University
  • 1996-2000 Reader in Theoretical Physics DAMTP
  • 1995-1996 ADR -- DAMTP
  • 1988-1995 College Teaching Officer, Kings College Cambridge
  • 1983-1988 Research Council Advanced Fellow, DAMTP Cambridge University
  • 1982-1983 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
  • 1980-1982 Fellow, Theory Division, CERN, Geneva
  • 1978-1980 Postdoctoral research associate in theoretical physics, Blackett Physics Laboratory Imperial College, London
  • 1976-1978 Postdoctoral research associate in theoretical physics, Mathematics Department, Durham University

Research

Anne Davis' recent research is in Particle Cosmology. Her current work is on modified gravity theories, such as the chameleon model and related scalar-tensor theories of gravity. She has studied the full cosmological evolution of the chameleon, considered solar system constraints, laboratory constraints and cosmological constrains. She has shown that chameleons could be detected in future Casimir force type experiments. She has also worked on inflation and extra-dimensional theories.

Selected Publications

http://www-spires.dur.ac.uk/cgi-bin/spiface/hep/www?rawcmd=find+a+davis%2C+a.c.&FORMAT=WWW&SEQUENCE=

 Teaching

Principles of Quantum Mechanics

Below is the link to some lectures notes for this course with acknowledgement to my predecessors, Dr J.M. Evans and Prof R.R. Horgan

 

 www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/acd/

 

Publications

Constraints on Holographic Multifield Inflation and Models Based on the Hamilton-Jacobi Formalism
A Achúcarro, S Céspedes, A-C Davis, GA Palma
– Phys Rev Lett
(2019)
122,
191301
Laboratory constraints
P Brax, C Burrage, AC Davis
– International Journal of Modern Physics D
(2019)
27,
1848009
Imprints of Chameleon f(R) gravity on Galaxy rotation curves
AP Naik, E Puchwein, AC Davis, C Arnold
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2018)
480,
5211
Gravitational effects of disformal couplings
P Brax, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(2018)
98,
063531
Neutron star merger GW170817 strongly constrains doubly coupled bigravity
Y Akrami, P Brax, AC Davis, V Vardanyan
– Physical Review D
(2018)
97,
124010
Constraining screened fifth forces with the electron magnetic moment
P Brax, AC Davis, B Elder, LK Wong
– Physical Review D
(2018)
97,
084050
Signatures of graviton masses on the CMB
P Brax, S Cespedes, AC Davis
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2018)
2018,
008
Gravitational waves in doubly coupled bigravity
P Brax, AC Davis, J Noller
– Physical Review D
(2017)
96,
023518
One-electron atoms in screened modified gravity
LK Wong, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(2017)
95,
104010
Neutron stars in screened modified gravity: Chameleon versus dilaton
P Brax, AC Davis, R Jha
– Physical Review D
(2017)
95,
083514
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Room

B2.18

Telephone

01223 337878