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Prof. Alexander Belyaev

Address and contact information

• E-mail: a.belyaev@soton.ac.uk

• Phone: +44 (0)23 8059 8509

• Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3910

• Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/alexandersbelyaev/

• Address: University of Southampton, School of Physics and Astronomy, Bld 46, room 5047 , Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

Education

• 1993 MSc in High Energy Theoretical Physics, with Honour Moscow State University, Russia

• 1996 PhD in High Energy Theoretical Physics, with Distinction Moscow State University, Russia

Present Key Posts

• Professor of Physics at University of Southampton since August 2014

• Full Member of the CMS collaboration at the LHC (CERN) since 2007

• Member of CMS group at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory since 2007

• Associate member of CP3-Origins centre as supporting scientist (Denmark) since 2010

Employment History

• 2014 – present Professor of Physics at University of Southampton, joint SOTON-RAL Next Institute position

• 2012 – 2014 Reader at University of Southampton, joint SOTON-RAL Next Institute position

• 2007 – 2012 Lecturer at University of Southampton, joint SOTON-RAL Next Institute position

• 2004 – 2007 Research Associate, Michigan State University (MSU)

• 2000 – 2004 Research Associate, Florida State University (FSU)

• 1999 – 2000 Research Fellow, CERN Theory division

• 1997 – 1999 Research Associate, Theoretical Physics Institute (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

• 1995 – 1997 Research Associate, SINP MSU (Moscow, Russia), long term visitor at DØ, Fermilab

Area of research and the main objectives

The area of my research includes Theory and Phenomenology of Elementary Particle Physics and Cosmology Beyond the Standard Model: Supersymmetry, Extra-Dimensions and Technicolor and their Dark Matter cosmological connections. See the list of my publications.

I has been working in close contact with experimental collaborations: I am the former member of DØ collaboration at Fermilab (1996-2004) and presently I am the full member of the CMS collaboration at CERN since 2007.

Since 2009 I became one of three developers of the CalcHEP package which was created to enable one to go directly from the Lagrangian to the cross sections and distributions effectively, with a high level of automation. The package can be compiled on any Unix platform.

In 2011 I have pioneered High Energy Physics Model Database (HEPMDB) project which was created to facilitate connection between High Energy theory and experiment, and it is a tool to store and validate models of particle physics. The ultimate goal is to instrument identification of the fundamental theory responsible for signals expected at the LHC. HEPMDB provides option to run computations on the IRIDIS supercluster at the University of Southampton. This vastly improves efficiency for researchers studying theories beyond the Standard Model.

Recently I have started developing project connecting Collider and Cosmological exploration of various Dark Matter models which, I believe, will create a solid ground for uncovering the underlying theory.

Personal achievements in research and professional activity

• Pioneered High Energy Physics Model Database (HEPMDB) project https://hepmdb.soton.ac.uk/ (2011).

• One of three developers of CalcHEP package.

• Author of over 1000 publications in total (with over 100k citations) among which there are over 100 theory publications (with over 10k citations), h-index of publications made during the last 10 years is above 150 (see details at inspirehep.net using my id a.s.belyaev.1)

• Full Member of the CMS collaboration since 2007.

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK since 08/2011.

• Invited referee for Russian biggest Governmental Grant Initiative since 2011.

• The first Director of the NExT PhD School (2009-2011).

• Director of BUSSTEPP 2014 (British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics).

Funding ID

• Since the begining of my appointment at University of Southampton I have brought over £8M income (STFC, Royal Society and University grants) as PI and Co-PI. Curently co-PI of £4.3M STFC consolidated grant ST/L000296/1.

• Most recent grants as PI:

  • SOTON-FAPESP collaborative grant between UK and Brazil (£10K) for 2014-2016 period

  • Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (£100K) for 2015-2016 period

Publications

HEP-PH Publications EXP Publications All Publications

Selected 10 Publications

1. “Decoding Dark Matter at future e+e- colliders", A.Belyaev, A.Freegard,I.F.Ginzburg, D.Locke, A.Pukhov, Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 1, 015016

2. "Uncovering Natural Supersymmetry via the interplay between the LHC and Direct Dark Matter Detection”. D. Barducci, A. Belyaev, A. Bharucha, W. Porod, V. Sanz, JHEP 1507 (2015) 066

3. “The Technicolor Higgs in the Light of LHC Data”, A.Belyaev, M. Brown, R. Foadi, M. Frandsen.Phys.Rev. D90 (2014) 035012

4. “CalcHEP 3.3 – the ready setup for collider physics”. A. Pukhov, A. Belyaev, N. Christensen”. Comput. Phys. Commun. 184, 1729 (2013)

5. “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC”. A. Belyaev within CMS collaboration”. Phys.Lett. B716 (2012) 30-61

6. “Technicolor Walks at the LHC”. A. Belyaev, R. Foadi, M. T. Frandsen, M. Jarvinen, F. Sannino and A. Pukhov. Phys. Rev. D 79, 035006 (2009)

7. “LHC Signals from Warped Extra Dimensions”. K. Agashe, A. Belyaev, T. Krupovnickas, G. Perez and J. Virzi. Phys. Rev. D 77, 015003 (2008)

8. “Heavy Quark Mass Effects in Deep Inelastic Scattering and Global QCD Analysis”. W. K. Tung, H. L. Lai, A. Belyaev, J. Pumplin, D. Stump and C. -P. Yuan. JHEP 0702, 053 (2007)

9. “Direct, indirect and collider detection of neutralino darkmatter in SUSYmodels with non-universal Higgs masses”. H. Baer, A. Belyaev, A. Mustafayev, S. Profumo and X. Tata. JHEP 0507, 065 (2005)

10. “Neutralino relic density in minimal supergravity with coannihilations”. H. Baer, C. Balazs and A. Belyaev. JHEP 0203, 042 (2002)

Talks

• • • "Supersymmetric Dark Matter", Invited plenary talk at HAP Dark Matter Workshop, September 22, 2015, Karlsruhe, Germany

    • “Physics Beyond the Standard Model”, Invited lecturers at the International School "Theory challenges for the LHC physics", July 20-30, 2015, Dubna, Russia

    • "Higgs and Electroweak Physics" – invited theory summary talk at WIN 2015 workshop, MPIK, June 12, 2015, Heidelberg, Germany

    • "Quantum Black Holes at the LHC", invited plenary talk at the Black Holes 2015 workshop, April 16, 2015, Ubu, Brazil

    • “Interplay of the LHC and Dark Matter search experiments in unravelling Natural Supersymmetry” SUSY 2014 conference, July 21, 2014, Manchester UK and at DM@LHC workshop, September 26, Oxford, UK

Courses (taught in the past or being taught at present):

• • Third year undergraduate course “Nuclei and particle Physics”, PHYS3002

  • Second year undergraduate course "Introduction to energy in the environment", PHYS2015

• • PhD course “QFT3”

• • PhD course “Introduction to HEP tools”

Graduated PhD students up-to-date:

• • Patrick Svantesson (2013)

  • Matt Brown (2013)

  • Daniele Barducci (2014)

  • Marc Thomas (2015)

  • Patrick Schaefers (2018)

  • Azaria Coupe (2019)

  • Daniel Locke (2021)