Richard Ball

Richard Ball is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on Collider Physics and Fundamental Theory, with particular interest in LHC physics. He is affiliated with the Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics and the Particle Physics Theory research group. Ball's work includes contributions to parton distribution functions and the analysis of physics at the LHC. He is also associated with the Discovery Centre at NBI Copenhagen as an Associate. His research has been published in several journals, including the European Physical Journal C and Journal of Physics G.

Richard D Ball is a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in theoretical particle physics. His research focuses on parton distribution functions (PDFs), which are essential for understanding the internal structure of protons and neutrons. Ball's work involves global fits of PDFs using collider data from experiments like the LHC, with an emphasis on precision and uncertainty estimation. He has contributed significantly to the development of the NNPDF and PDF4LHC collaborations, which aim to provide accurate and reliable PDFs for high-energy physics. His studies also explore the impact of heavy quark masses, QED corrections, and small-x resummation on PDFs, as well as polarized PDFs and their implications for nucleon structure.