Physics Beyond the Standard Proton

Project Information

PBSP

Grant agreement ID: 950246

DOI

10.3030/950246

Project closed

EC signature date 1 September 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 473 463,00

EU contribution

€ 1 473 463,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

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Publications

Conference proceedings (5)

Quantum SMEFT tomography: top quark pair

Author(s): Luca Mantani
Published in: Proceedings of 41st International Conference on High Energy physics — PoS(ICHEP2022), 2022, Page(s) 858
Publisher: Sissa Medialab
DOI: 10.22323/1.414.0858

SciPost Physics Proceedings

Author(s): Maria Ubiali
Published in: SciPost Physics Proceedings, Issue The 2nd European AI for Fundamental Physics Conference (202508001), 2026
Publisher: Stichting SciPost
DOI: 10.21468/scipostphysproc

Precision QCD, Hadronic Structure & Forward QCD, Heavy Ions: Report of Energy Frontier Topical Groups 5, 6, 7 submitted to Snowmass 2021

Author(s): M. Begel, S. Hoeche, M. Schmitt, H.-W. Lin, P.M. Nadolsky, C. Royon, Y-J. Lee, S. Mukherjee, C. Baldenegro, J. Campbell, G. Chachamis, F.G. Celiberto, A. M. Cooper-Sarkar, D. d'Enterria, M. Diefenthaler, M. Fucilla, M. V. Garzelli, M. Guzzi, M. Hentschinski, T. J. Hobbs, J. Huston, J. Isaacson, S.R. Klein, F. Kling, P. Kotko, Yu. V. Kovchegov, G. Krintiras, A.S. Kronfeld, K. Kutak, B. Mistlberger,
Published in: Report of Energy Frontier Topical Groups 5, 6, 7 submitted to the US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2021), 2022
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2209.14872

Parton Distributions in the SMEFT from high-energy Drell-Yan tails

Author(s): Maeve Madigan, James Moore
Published in: Volume 398 - The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2021), 2022
Publisher: Sissa Medialab
DOI: 10.22323/1.398.0424

Theoretical view on Heavy Flavours and jets

Author(s): Maria Ubiali
Published in: Volume 397 - The Ninth Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP2021), 2021
Publisher: Sissa Medialab
DOI: 10.22323/1.397.0088

Peer reviewed articles (39)

A new generation of simultaneous fits to LHC data using deep learning

Author(s): Shayan Iranipour, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue volume 2022, Article number: 32 (2022), 2022, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep05(2022)032

Hide and seek: how PDFs can conceal new physics

Author(s): Elie Hammou, Zahari Kassabov, Maeve Madigan, Michelangelo L. Mangano, Luca Mantani, James Moore, Manuel Morales Alvarado, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep11(2023)090

Mapping the SMEFT at high-energy colliders: from LEP and the (HL-)LHC to the FCC-ee

Author(s): Eugenia Celada, Tommaso Giani, Jaco ter Hoeve, Luca Mantani, Juan Rojo, Alejo N. Rossia, Marion O. A. Thomas, Eleni Vryonidou
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2024, 2025, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep09(2024)091

Quantum SMEFT tomography: Top quark pair production at the LHC

Author(s): Rafael Aoude; Eric Madge; Fabio Maltoni; Luca Mantani
Published in: Physical Review D, 2022, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.055007

Tailored PDFs for new physics searches

Author(s): Ella Cole, Mark N. Costantini, Elie Hammou, Luca Mantani, Francesco Merlotti, Manuel Morales-Alvarado, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2026, 2026, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep07(2026)043

Resummation effects in the bottom-quark fragmentation function

Author(s): Fabio Maltoni, Giovanni Ridolfi, Maria Ubiali, Marco Zaro
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep10(2022)027

The dark side of the proton

Author(s): Matthew McCullough, James Moore, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep08(2022)019

SMEFT analysis of mW

Author(s): Emanuele Bagnaschi, John Ellis, Maeve Madigan, Ken Mimasu, Veronica Sanz, Tevong You
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep08(2022)308

Probing new physics through entanglement in diboson production

Author(s): Rafael Aoude, Eric Madge, Fabio Maltoni, Luca Mantani
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2023, 2024, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep12(2023)017

The strangest proton?

Author(s): Ferran Faura, Shayan Iranipour, Emanuele R. Nocera, Juan Rojo, Maria Ubiali
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, Issue 80, 2024, ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08749-3

Parton distributions in the SMEFT from high-energy Drell-Yan tails

Author(s): Admir Greljo, Shayan Iranipour, Zahari Kassabov, Maeve Madigan, James Moore, Juan Rojo, Maria Ubiali, Cameron Voisey
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep07(2021)122

HighTEA: high energy theory event analyser

Author(s): Michał Czakon, Zahari Kassabov, Alexander Mitov, Rene Poncelet, Andrei Popescu
Published in: Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Issue 51, 2024, Page(s) 115002, ISSN 0954-3899
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/ad64ef

Parton distributions with scale uncertainties: a Monte Carlo sampling approach

Author(s): Zahari Kassabov, Maria Ubiali, Cameron Voisey
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep03(2023)148

The forward physics facility: Physics opportunities and conceptual design

Author(s): Luis A. Anchordoqui, John Kenneth Anders, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, David Asner, Jeremy Atkinson, Alan J. Barr, Larry Bartoszek, Brian Batell, Hans Peter Beck, Florian U. Bernlochner, Bipul Bhuyan, Jianming Bian, Aleksey Bolotnikov, Silas Bosco, Jamie Boyd, Nick Callaghan, Gabriella Carini, Michael Carrigan, Kohei Chinone, Matthew Citron, Isabella Coronado, Peter Denton, Albert De Roeck, Milind
Published in: Nuclear Physics B, Issue 1026, 2026, Page(s) 117398, ISSN 0550-3213
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2026.117398

Combination of aN³LO PDFs and implications for Higgs production cross-sections at the LHC

Author(s): null null, Thomas Cridge, Lucian A Harland-Lang, Jamie McGowan, Robert S Thorne, null null, Richard D Ball, Alessandro Candido, Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Felix Hekhorn, Giacomo Magni, Emanuele R Nocera, Tanjona R Rabemananjara, Juan Rojo, Roy Stegeman, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Issue 52, 2025, Page(s) 065002, ISSN 0954-3899
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/adde78

An open-source machine learning framework for global analyses of parton distributions

Author(s): NNPDF Collaboration; Richard D. Ball; Stefano Carrazza; Juan Cruz-Martinez; Luigi Del Debbio; Stefano Forte; Tommaso Giani; Shayan Iranipour; Zahari Kassabov; Jose I. Latorre; Emanuele R. Nocera; Rosalyn L. Pearson; Juan Rojo; Roy Stegeman; Christopher Schwan; Maria Ubiali; Cameron Voisey; Michael Wilson
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, 2021, ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09747-9

SIMUnet: an open-source tool for simultaneous global fits of EFT Wilson coefficients and PDFs

Author(s): null null, Mark N. Costantini, Elie Hammou, Zahari Kassabov, Maeve Madigan, Luca Mantani, Manuel Morales-Alvarado, James M. Moore, Maria Ubiali
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, Issue 84, 2024, ISSN 1434-6052
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13079-9

Parton distributions confront LHC Run II data: a quantitative appraisal

Author(s): Amedeo Chiefa, Mark N. Costantini, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Emanuele R. Nocera, Tanjona R. Rabemananjara, Juan Rojo, Tanishq Sharma, Roy Stegeman, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2025, 2026, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep07(2025)067

Unbinned multivariate observables for global SMEFT analyses from machine learning

Author(s): Raquel Gomez Ambrosio, Jaco ter Hoeve, Maeve Madigan, Juan Rojo, Veronica Sanz
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep03(2023)033

The path to proton structure at 1% accuracy

Author(s): Richard D. Ball, Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Tommaso Giani, Shayan Iranipour, Zahari Kassabov, Jose I. Latorre, Emanuele R. Nocera, Rosalyn L. Pearson, Juan Rojo, Roy Stegeman, Christopher Schwan, Maria Ubiali, Cameron Voisey and Michael Wilson
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, 2021, ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10328-7

The path to $$\hbox {N}^3\hbox {LO}$$ parton distributions

Author(s): Richard D. Ball, Andrea Barontini, Alessandro Candido, Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Tommaso Giani, Felix Hekhorn, Zahari Kassabov, Niccolò Laurenti, Giacomo Magni, Emanuele R. Nocera, Tanjona R. Rabemananjara, Juan Rojo, Christopher Schwan, Roy Stegeman, Maria Ubiali, null null
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, Issue 84, 2024, ISSN 1434-6052
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12891-7

Probing the coupling of axions to tops and gluons with LHC measurements

Author(s): Jon Butterworth, Matthew Cullingworth, Joseph Egan, Fabian Esser, Veronica Sanz, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2026, 2026, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep02(2026)073

Top, Higgs, diboson and electroweak fit to the Standard Model effective field theory

Author(s): John Ellis, Maeve Madigan, Ken Mimasu, Veronica Sanz & and Tevong You
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics volume, 2021, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep04(2021)279

"Comprehensive exploration of <mml:math xmlns:mml=""http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"" display=""inline""><mml:mi>t</mml:mi></mml:math>-channel simplified models of dark matter"

Author(s): Chiara Arina, Benjamin Fuks, Jan Heisig, Michael Krämer, Luca Mantani, Luca Panizzi
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 108, 2024, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.108.115007

A critical study of the Monte Carlo replica method

Author(s): Mark N. Costantini, Maeve Madigan, Luca Mantani, James M. Moore
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2024, 2026, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep12(2024)064

Di-Higgs production via axion-like particles

Author(s): Fabian Esser, Maeve Madigan, Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez, Veronica Sanz, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2024, 2025, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep10(2024)164

The top quark legacy of the LHC Run II for PDF and SMEFT analyses

Author(s): Zahari Kassabov, Maeve Madigan, Luca Mantani, James Moore, Manuel Morales Alvarado, Juan Rojo, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.06159

A linear PDF model for Bayesian inference

Author(s): Mark N. Costantini, Luca Mantani, James M. Moore, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2026, 2026, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep04(2026)068

Unravelling new physics signals at the HL-LHC with EIC and FPF constraints

Author(s): Elie Hammou, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 111, 2026, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.111.095028

Determination of the theory uncertainties from missing higher orders on NNLO parton distributions with percent accuracy

Author(s): null null, Richard D. Ball, Andrea Barontini, Alessandro Candido, Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Tommaso Giani, Felix Hekhorn, Zahari Kassabov, Niccolò Laurenti, Giacomo Magni, Emanuele R. Nocera, Tanjona R. Rabemananjara, Juan Rojo, Christopher Schwan, Roy Stegeman, Maria Ubiali
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, Issue 84, 2024, ISSN 1434-6052
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12772-z

Global analysis of ALP-mediated multiboson production at the LHC

Author(s): Fabian Esser, Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez, Veronica Sanz, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 113, 2026, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/x7f6-rwgy

A ν supersymmetric anomaly-free atlas

Author(s): B. C. Allanach, Maeve Madigan, Joseph Tooby-Smith
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep02(2022)144

SNOWMASS 2021 whitepaper: proton structure at the precision frontier

Author(s): S. Amoroso, A. Apyan, N. Armesto, R.D. Ball, V. Bertone, C. Bissolotti, J. Blümlein, R. Boughezal, G. Bozzi, D. Britzger, A. Buckley, A. Candido, S. Carrazza, F. G. Celiberto, S. Cerci, G. Chachamis, A.M. Cooper-Sarkar, A. Courtoy, T. Cridge, J.M. Cruz-Martinez, F. Giuli, M.G. Guzzi, C. Gwenlan, L.A. Harland-Lang, F. Hekhorn, M. Hentschinski, T.J. Hobbs, S. Hoeche, A. Huss, J. Huston, S. Jadach,
Published in: Acta Physica Polonica B, 2022, ISSN 0587-4254
Publisher: Jagellonian University
DOI: 10.5506/aphyspolb.53.12-a1

Regularising experimental correlations in LHC data: theory and application to a global analysis of parton distributions

Author(s): Kassabov, Zahari; Nocera, Emanuele R.; Wilson, Michael
Published in: European Physical Journal C, 2022, ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10932-7

Photons in the proton: implications for the LHC

Author(s): null null, Richard D. Ball, Andrea Barontini, Alessandro Candido, Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Tommaso Giani, Felix Hekhorn, Zahari Kassabov, Niccolò Laurenti, Giacomo Magni, Emanuele R. Nocera, Tanjona R. Rabemananjara, Juan Rojo, Christopher Schwan, Roy Stegeman, Maria Ubiali
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, Issue 84, 2024, ISSN 1434-6052
Publisher: European Physics Journal C
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12731-8

Colibri: A new tool for fast-flying PDF fits

Author(s): Mark N. Costantini, Luca Mantani, James M. Moore, Valentina Schütze Sánchez, Maria Ubiali
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, Issue 86, 2026, ISSN 1434-6052
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15185-8

Signatures of leptophilic t-channel dark matter from active galactic nuclei

Author(s): Marina Cermeño; Céline Degrande; Luca Mantani
Published in: Physical Review D, 2022, ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.105.083019

Parton Distribution Functions and Their Impact on Precision of the Current Theory Calculations

Author(s): M. Ubiali
Published in: Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement, Issue 17, 2024, Page(s) 1, ISSN 1899-2358
Publisher: Jagellonian University
DOI: 10.5506/aphyspolbsupp.17.5-a6

Angular coefficients from interpretable machine learning with symbolic regression

Author(s): Josh Bendavid, Daniel Conde, Manuel Morales-Alvarado, Veronica Sanz, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2026, 2026, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep02(2026)081

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

On the coupling of axion-like particles to the top quark

Author(s): Fabian Esser, Maeve Madigan, Veronica Sanz, Maria Ubiali
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physica, 2023, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.17634

Other (1)

Response to “Parton distributions need representative sampling”

Author(s): Richard D. Ball, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Zahari Kassabov, Emanuele R. Nocera, Juan Rojo, Roy Stegeman, Maria Ubiali
Published in: 2022
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.12961