Research contributions/papers from the project include:
--A novel leptoquark model was published which explains both categories of B-anomaly (neutral and charged currents). It was developed from the bottom up, in terms of its phenomenological signatures. The model included flavoured couplings to third generation fermions, inspired by well-known models of fermion masses based on flavour symmetries (i.e. in a family-non-trivial way). Low energy flavour data was used to bound the parameter space of the model, while novel LHC signals were also considered and calculated, which allowed the authors to put novel bounds on the leptoquark parameter space (mass and coupling).
--The geonuSMEFT was derived and a single-authored paper was written on the topic and published. The refactorization of the nuGEOSMEFT’s operator product expansion was shown to be possible, such that two- and three-point composite operator forms are dressed with field-space connections composed of towers of Higgs dressings and symmetry generators, valid at all-orders in the expansion parameter of the effective field theory. The route to predicting all-orders observables was outlined, along with the flavour-invariant theory required to understand the neutrino mass-eigenstate basis geometrically.
--Another published paper revisited the Universal Texture Zero model previously devised by the researcher. The phenomenology of the model (including fermion mass/mixing textures, CP-violating observables and beta-decay observables) was studied using an advanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm. The model was shown to be a successful fermion mass model, and therefore warrants continued interest and study from the community.
--Finally, shortly after the formal end of the project, a new paper extracting the strong coupling constant from electron-positron event shapes was made public by the researcher and his collaborators. This exploited state-of-the-art techniques in soft collinear effective theory, including a novel analysis of non-perturbative effects in these important physical observables.
Note that multiple of the research projects mentioned above were presented at international conferences (9) and invited seminars (11). Examples of the latter include the Universities of Vienna, Milano-Bicocca, Amsterdam, Southampton, Imperial, etc. Examples of the former include Pheno 2022, LoopFest 2022, Corfu 2022 and 2023, INT 2023, etc. The researcher also engaged in numerous outreach activities, including participation in a career day where he shared his love of particle physics with multiple classes of young men, a career-preparation / CV-review day at an all-girls school, and monthly mentoring sessions with a bright young aspiring student who aspires to study either biomedical sciences or clinical medicine.
As a final comment, note that the researcher also engaged in multiple research supervision projects, including two summer projects with Cambridge undergraduates (one on Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms and the other on automated event generation), and the co-supervision of a Cambridge University Masters thesis, for which the student received first-class marks.
