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Profiles
Professor Antonio Rago
Professor of Theoretical Physics
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Antonio can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Particle physics
- Lattice gauge theories
- Computational physics
- Theoretical physics
- Standard model
- Statistical mathematics
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Biography
Biography
Associate Professor (Reader) in Theoretical Physics
Qualifications
2015–Present Plymouth University, Associate Professor (Reader)
2011–2015 Plymouth University, Lecturer
2009–2011 Wuppertal University, Germany, Postdoc
2007–2009 Swansea University, UK, Postdoc
2003–2007 University of Milano, Italy, Postdoc
2003 University of Torino, Italy, Postdoc
Professional membership
Member of the UKQCD collaboration:
The purpose of the UKQCD Collaboration is to procure and jointly exploit computing facilities for lattice field theory calculations whose primary aim is to increase the predictive power of the Standard Model of elementary particle interactions through numerical simulation of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
My Specialist Subjects are:
Particle Physics, Lattice Gauge Theories, Critical Phenomena, Statistical Mechanics.
My Courses:
Vector Calculus and its applications (MATH2502)
Engineering Mathematics (MATH256)
Electrodynamics and Relativity (MATH3509)
Research
Research
Research interests
My research achievements have covered different topics in the contest of lattice gauge theories:
- Beyond the Standard Model Physics.
- Lattice Gauge Theories coupled to matter and string breaking.
- Confinement, k-string fluctuations and large N expansion.
- Perturbative aspects of QCD in the framework of Lattice regularisation.
- Perturbed Conformal Field Theories in d = 2.
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2021) 'Interpreting and explaining pagerank through argumentation semantics' Intelligenza Artificiale 15, (1) 17-34 , DOI
(2021) 'Ergodic sampling of the topological charge using the density of states' The European Physical Journal C 81, (4) , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Master-field simulations of O(a)-improved lattice QCD: Algorithms, stability and exactness' Computer Physics Communications 0-0 , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Free energy of the self-interacting relativistic lattice Bose gas at finite density' Physical Review D 101, (1) , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Computing general observables in lattice models with complex actions' Proceedings of Science 363, Open access
(2018) 'Ergodicity of the LLR method for the Density of States' EPJ Web of Conferences 175, 02005-02005 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Lattice QCD on new chips: a community summary' EPJ Web of Conferences 175, 01021-01021 , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Renormalisation of the scalar energy-momentum tensor with the Wilson flow' Proceedings of 34th annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LATTICE2016) , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Renormalisation of the energy-momentum tensor in scalar field theory using the Wilson flow' Proceedings of The 33rd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LATTICE 2015) , DOI Open access
(2016) 'BSMBench: A flexible and scalable HPC benchmark from beyond the standard model physics' 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS) , DOI Open access
(2016) 'An efficient algorithm for numerical computations of continuous densities of states' The European Physical Journal C 76, (6) , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Large volumes and spectroscopy of walking theories' Physical Review D 93, (5) , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Renormalization constants of the lattice energy momentum tensor using
the gradient flow' Open access
(2015) 'The density of states approach for the simulation of finite density quantum field theories' Journal of Physics: Conference Series 631, 012063-012063 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Boundary and interface CFTs from the conformal bootstrap' Journal of High Energy Physics 2015, (5) , DOI Open access
(2014) 'Critical exponents of the 3d Ising and related models from conformal bootstrap' JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (10) , DOI Open access
(2014) 'The density of states from first principles'
(2014) 'Towards a density of states approach for dense matter systems' PoS LATTICE2013, 198-198
(2013) 'Infrared conformality and bulk critical points: SU(2) with heavy adjoint quarks' JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (11) , DOI Open access
(2013) 'Large-volume results in SU(2) with adjoint fermions' Proceedings of Science 29-July-2013, Open access
(2012) 'Scaling properties of SU(2) gauge theory with mixed fundamental-adjoint
action' PoS(Lattice 2012)252
(2012) 'The density of states in gauge theories' Physical Review Letters 109, (11)
(2011) 'Finite volume effects in SU(2) with two adjoint fermions'
(2011) 'Dimensional reduction from five-dimensional gauge theories'
(2011) 'On the phase structure of five-dimensional SU(2) gauge theories with
anisotropic couplings' Publisher Site
(2010) 'Confining vs. conformal scenario for SU(2) with adjoint fermions.
Gluonic observables' PoS Lattice 2010,
(2010) 'Improved Spectroscopy of Minimal Walking Technicolor' PoS LAT 2010,
(2010) 'Dimensional reduction and confinement from five dimensions' PoS Lattice 2010,
(2010) 'Orientifold Planar Equivalence: The Quenched Meson Spectrum' PoS Lattice 2010,
(2010) 'The glueball spectrum at large N' PoS(Lattice 2010)284
(2010) 'A numerical investigation of orientifold planar equivalence for quenched
mesons' Phys.Rev.D 82, Publisher Site
(2010) 'Glueball masses in the large N limit' Journal of High Energy Physics 2010, Publisher Site , DOI
(2010) 'Infrared dynamics of Minimal Walking Technicolor' Physical Review D 82, (1) Publisher Site , DOI
(2010) 'Mesonic spectroscopy of Minimal Walking Technicolor' Physical Review D 82, (1) Publisher Site , DOI
(2010) 'Wilson Loops in string duals of Walking and Flavored Systems' Physical Review D 81, (8) Publisher Site , DOI
(2009) 'Conformal vs confining scenario in SU(2) with adjoint fermions' Phys.Rev.D80:074507,2009 80, (7) Publisher Site , DOI
(2009) 'Conformal vs confining scenario in SU(2) with adjoint fermions' Phys.Rev.D80:074507,2009 80, (7) Publisher Site , DOI
(2009) 'Technicolor on the Lattice'
(2009) 'Conformal vs confining scenario in SU(2) with adjoint fermions' Phys.Rev.D 80, Publisher Site
(2004) 'Overlap of the Wilson loop with the broken-string state' Nucl.Phys. B 714, 91-102 Publisher Site
(2004) 'Static quark potential and effective string corrections in the (2+ 1)-d SU(2) Yang-Mills theory' Journal of High Energy Physics 8, (10) 79-103 , DOI
(2004) 'Amplitude ratios for the mass spectrum of the 2d Ising model in the
high-T, H \neq 0 phase' J.Stat.Mech. 0410, Publisher Site
(2004) 'Static quark potential and effective string corrections in the (2+1)-d
SU(2) Yang-Mills theory' JHEP 0410, Publisher Site
(2003) 'Confinement-deconfinement and universal string effects from random
percolation' Publisher Site
(2002) 'Finite temperature results on the 2d Ising model with mixed perturbation' Published in J. Phys. A 37, L4701-L4708 Publisher Site
(2002) 'Study of the 2d Ising Model with mixed perturbation' Nucl.Phys.B 651, 387-412 Publisher Site
(2002) 'Monopole clusters, center vortices, and confinement in a Z(2)
gauge-Higgs system' Phys.Rev. D 66, Publisher Site
Conference Papers
(2021) 'Argflow: A toolkit for deep argumentative explanations for neural networks' 1749-1751
(2020) 'Argumentation as a framework for interactive explanations for recommendations' 803-813
(2020) 'Density of State Method for Complex Action Systems' Jagiellonian University 121-121 , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Relation-based counterfactual explanations for Bayesian network classifiers' 451-457
(2016) 'BSMBench: A Flexible and Scalable HPC Benchmark from Beyond the Standard Model Physics' 834-839 Open access
(2015) 'The density of states approach at finite chemical potential: A numerical study of the Bose gas' Open access
(2013) 'Poincaré symmetries and the yang-mills gradient flow'
(2010) 'Confining vs. Conformal scenario for SU(2) with 2 adjoint fermions. Mesonic spectrum'
(2004) 'Confinement-deconfinement and universal string effects from random percolation' 736-738 , DOI
(2002) 'The phase diagram of the three-dimensional Z2 gauge Higgs system at zero
and finite temperature' Publisher Site
(2001) 'High-accuracy two-loop computation of the critical mass for Wilson
fermions' 835-837
(2001) 'String breaking mechanisms induced by magnetic and electric condensates' 682-684
Personal
Personal
Reports & invited lectures
A selection of the talks and invited lectures I have given in the last few years:
(July 2014) Geneve CERN Conceptual advances in lattice gauge theory (LGT14) “Renormalization of the energy-momentum tensor with the Wilson flow”
(May 2014) Southampton “Critical exponents for the 3d Ising model from conformalbootstrap”
(Sept 2013) Plymouth GRAPHENE Theory Meets Experiments “Lattice and Graphene”Glasgow UKQCD Meeting “Could the Higgs be a composite particle? Investigation on the lattice of a BSM extension.”
(Sept 2012) Swansea Strong and Electroweak Matter “Non perturbative Investigationof conformality in SU(2) with two adjoint fermions.”
Conferences organised
June 2007 “XXIX Theoretical Physics Workshop” Cortona.
June 2006 “XXVIII Theoretical Physics Workshop” Cortona.