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Faculty of Mathematics

 

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

Progress in the neural network determination of polarized parton distributions
J Rojo, S Forte, G Ridolfi, RD Ball, L Del Debbio, M Ubiali, V Bertone, A Guffanti, F Cerutti, JI Latorre
– Proceedings of Science
(2010)
2010,
244
The impact of heavy quark mass effects in the NNPDF global analysis
J Rojo, S Forte, RD Ball, L Del Debbio, M Ubiali, V Bertone, A Guffanti, F Cerutti, JI Latorre
– Proceedings of Science
(2010)
2010,
173
A first unbiased global NLO determination of parton distributions and their uncertainties
RD Ball, L Del Debbio, S Forte, A Guffanti, JI Latorre, J Rojo, M Ubiali
– Nuclear Physics B
(2010)
838,
136
Fitting parton distribution data with multiplicative normalization uncertainties
RD Ball, L Del Debbio, S Forte, A Guffanti, JI Latorre, J Rojo, M Ubiali
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2010)
2010,
75
Parton Distributions
M Dittmar, S Forte, A Glazov, S Moch, G Altarelli, J Anderson, RD Ball, G Beuf, M Boonekamp, H Burkhardt, F Caola, M Ciafaloni, D Colferai, A Cooper-Sarkar, AD Roeck, LD Debbio, J Feltesse, F Gelis, J Grebenyuk, A Guffanti, V Halyo, JI Latorre, V Lendermann, G Li, L Motyka et al.
– Physics at TeV colliders. Proceedings, 6th Workshop, dedicated to Thomas Binoth, Les Houches, France, June 8-26, 2009
(2010)
The SM and NLO multileg working group: Summary report
T Binoth, G Dissertori, J Huston, R Pittau, JR Andersen, J Archibald, S Badger, RD Ball, G Bevilacqua, I Bierenbaum, T Binoth, F Boudjema, R Boughezal, A Bredenstein, R Britto, M Campanelli, J Campbell, L Carminati, G Chachamis, V Ciulli, G Cullen, M Czakon, LD Debbio, A Denner, G Dissertori et al.
– Physics at TeV colliders. Proceedings, 6th Workshop, dedicated to Thomas Binoth, Les Houches, France, June 8-26, 2009
(2010)
Combined PDF and strong coupling uncertainties at the LHC with NNPDF2.0
M Ubiali, RD Ball, LD Debbio, S Forte, A Guffanti, JI Latorre, J Rojo
– Proceedings, 45th Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and High Energy Interactions
(2010)
291
Precision determination of electroweak parameters and the strange content of the proton from neutrino deep-inelastic scattering
RD Ball, L Del Debbio, S Forte, A Guffanti, JI Latorre, A Piccione, J Rojo, M Ubiali
– Nuclear Physics B
(2009)
823,
195
The NNPDF1.2 parton set: implications for the LHC
J Rojo, M Ubiali, A Guffanti
– DIS 2009 - Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Topics
(2009)
A determination of parton distributions with faithful uncertainty estimation (vol 809, pg 1, 2009)
RD Ball, L Del Debbio, S Forte, A Guffanti, JI Latorre, A Piccione, J Rojo, M Ubiali
– Nuclear Physics B
(2009)
816,
293
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Room

B1.16

Telephone

01223 766870