Prof Christopher White
Professor of Theoretical Physics
SPCS Deputy Director of Education, Director of Teaching and Learning for Physics and Astronomy
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Particle physics, Gravity, Theoretical physics, High energy physics, Research impact
Interests
I have a long-standing interest in the theory describing the tiny quarks and gluons that live inside the proton (Quantum Chromodynamics), including how to use this theory to predict what happens at particle physics experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider. In the last few years, I have studied a remarkable new relationship ("the double copy") between particle physics theories and gravity. This gives tantalising hints of new mathematical structures underlying our theories of the universe, and also has practical applications e.g. for gravitational wave experiments.A further recent project involves mining online data, and using machine learning techniques, to see how we can quantify the societal impact of fundamental physics, and communicate this effectively to the general public.
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics2024
White CD and White MJ (2024). Magic states of top quarks. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 110 (11) 01-12-2024
Armstrong-Williams K, Nagy S, White CD and Wikeley S (2024). What can abelian gauge theories teach us about kinematic algebras? Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2024 (8) 21-08-2024
van Beekveld M, Vernazza L and White CD (2024). Exponentiation of soft quark effects from the replica trick. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2024 (7) 11-07-2024
Cristofoli A, Gonzo R, Moynihan N, O’Connell D, Ross A, Sergola M and White CD (2024). The uncertainty principle and classical amplitudes. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2024 (6) 26-06-2024
van Beekveld M, Danish A, Laenen E, Pal S, Tripathi A and White CD (2024). Next-to-soft radiation from a different angle. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 109 (7) 01-04-2024
2023
Nguyen K, Fukelman AR and White C (2023). Celestial soft dressings from generalised Wilson lines. 08-11-2023
White CD (2023). The Square Root of Einstein, The Mysterious Connections in Our Universe. 08-11-2023
Armstrong-Williams K and White CD (2023). A spinorial double copy for N = 0 supergravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2023 (5) 05-05-2023
González MC, Emond WT, Moynihan N, Rumbutis J and White CD (2023). Mini-twistors and the Cotton double copy. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer vol. 2023 (3) 23-03-2023
2022
Travaglini G, Brandhuber A, Dorey P, McLoughlin T, Abreu S, Bern Z, Bjerrum-Bohr NEJ, Blümlein J, Britto R, Carrasco JJM, Chicherin D, Chiodaroli M, Damgaard PH, Del Duca V, Dixon LJ, Dorigoni D, Duhr C, Geyer Y, Green MB, Herrmann E, et al. (2022). The SAGEX review on scattering amplitudes., Editors: Travaglini G, Dorey P, Brandhuber A and McLoughlin T. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical vol. 55 (44), 443001-443001. 19-12-2022
Luna A, Moynihan N and White CD (2022). Why is the Weyl double copy local in position space? Journal of High Energy Physics, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) vol. 2022 (12) 09-12-2022
White CD (2022). Chapter 12: Amplitudes and collider physics. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, IOP Publishing vol. 55 (44) 04-11-2022
Chacón E, Luna A and White CD (2022). Double copy of the multipole expansion. Physical Review D, American Physical Society vol. 106 (8) 27-10-2022
Armstrong-Williams K, White CD and Wikeley S (2022). Non-perturbative aspects of the self-dual double copy. Journal of High Energy Physics, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) vol. 2022 (8) 17-08-2022
White CD, Phillips A and Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha B (2022). Retrospectively evidencing research impact using online data mining. Research for All, UCL IOE Press vol. 6 (1), e06107-e06107. 01-03-2022
Chacón E, Nagy S and White CD (2022). Alternative formulations of the twistor double copy. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2022 (3) 01-03-2022
2021
van Beekveld M, Vernazza L and White CD (2021). Threshold resummation of new partonic channels at next-to-leading power. The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 2021 (12) 13-12-2021
Gardi E, Harley M, Lodin R, Palusa M, Smillie JM, White CD and Yeomans S (2021). Boomerang webs up to three-loop order. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2021 (12) 01-12-2021
Alawadhi R, Berman DS, White CD and Wikeley S (2021). The single copy of the gravitational holonomy. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2021 (10), 229-229. 28-10-2021
White CD (2021). Double copy—from optics to quantum gravity: tutorial. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Optica Publishing Group vol. 38 (11) 18-10-2021
Chacón E, Nagy S and White CD (2021). The Weyl double copy from twistor space. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2021 (5) 01-05-2021
Brown S, Buckley A, Englert C, Ferrando J, Galler P, Miller D, Wanotayaroj C, Warrack N and White C (2021). New results from TopFitter. 15-04-2021
Chacón E, García-Compeán H, Luna A, Monteiro R and White CD (2021). New heavenly double copies. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2021 (3) 26-03-2021
White CD (2021). Twistorial Foundation for the Classical Double Copy. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 126 (6) 12-02-2021
2020
Luna A, Nagy S and White CD (2020). The convolutional double copy: a case study with a point. The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 2020 (9), 62-62. 08-09-2020
Alfonsi L, White CD and Wikeley S (2020). Topology and Wilson lines: global aspects of the double copy. The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 2020 (7) 14-07-2020
Bahjat-Abbas N, Stark-Muchão R and White CD (2020). Monopoles, shockwaves and the classical double copy. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer vol. 2020 (4) 16-04-2020
Di Vecchia P, Naculich SG, Russo R, Veneziano G and White CD (2020). A tale of two exponentiations in N = 8 supergravity at subleading level. The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 2020 (3) 30-03-2020
van Beekveld M, Beenakker W, Laenen E and White CD (2020). Next-to-leading power threshold effects for inclusive and exclusive processes with final state jets. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer vol. 2020 (3) 18-03-2020
Englert C, Galler P and White CD (2020). Effective field theory and scalar extensions of the top quark sector. Physical Review D, American Physical Society vol. 101 (3) 27-02-2020
van Beekveld M, Beenakker W, Laenen E, Misra A and White CD (2020). The role of soft quarks in next-to-leading power threshold effects. 14th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections. 18-02-2020
White C (2020). Aspects of high energy scattering. SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, Stichting SciPost 07-02-2020
Tyc T, Bělín J, Oxburgh S, White CD, Cowie EN and Courtial J (2020). Combinations of generalized lenses that satisfy the edge-imaging condition of transformation optics. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science and Vision, Optical Society of America vol. 37 (2), 305-315. 24-01-2020
2019
Bělín J, Tyc T, Grunwald M, Oxburgh S, Cowie EN, White CD and Courtial J (2019). Ideal-lens cloaks and new cloaking strategies. Optics Express, Optical Society of America (OSA) vol. 27 (26), 37327-37336. 10-12-2019
Bahjat-Abbas N, Bonocore D, Sinninghe Damsté J, Laenen E, Magnea L, Vernazza L and White CD (2019). Diagrammatic resummation of leading-logarithmic threshold effects at next-to-leading power. The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 2019 (11) 04-11-2019
Di Vecchia P, Luna A, Naculich SG, Russo R, Veneziano G and White CD (2019). A tale of two exponentiations in N=8 supergravity. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, Elsevier vol. 798 11-09-2019
González MC, Melcher B, Ratliff K, Watson S and White CD (2019). The classical double copy in three spacetime dimensions. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2019 (7) 29-07-2019
Englert C, Russell M and White CD (2019). Effective field theory in the top sector: Do multijets help? Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 99 (3) 01-02-2019
Berman DS, Chacón E, Luna A and White CD (2019). The self-dual classical double copy, and the Eguchi-Hanson instanton. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2019 (1) 11-01-2019
Belín J, Tyc T, Grunwald M, Oxburgh S, Cowie EN, White CD and Courtial J (2019). Perfect invisibility with ideal lenses. 01-01-2019
Brown S, Buckley A, Englert C, Ferrando J, Galler P, Miller DJ, Moore L, Russell M, White C and Warrack N (2019). TopFitter: Fitting top-quark Wilson Coefficients to Run II data. 01-01-2019
2018
Bahjat-Abbas N, Stark-Muchão R and White CD (2018). Biadjoint wires. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics vol. 788, 274-279. 20-11-2018
Bahjat-Abbas N, Sinninghe Damsté J, Vernazza L and White CD (2018). On next-to-leading power threshold corrections in Drell-Yan production at N3LO. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2018 (10) 23-10-2018
Courtial J, Tom TYC, Jakub Běl N, Oxburgh S, Ferenczi G, Cowie EN and White CD (2018). Ray-optical transformation optics with ideal thin lenses makes omnidirectional lenses. Optics Express vol. 26 (14), 17872-17888. 09-07-2018
Luna A, Nicholson I, O Connell D and White CD (2018). Inelastic black hole scattering from charged scalar amplitudes. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2018 (3) 08-03-2018
2017
De Smet PJ and White CD (2017). Extended solutions for the biadjoint scalar field. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics vol. 775, 163-167. 10-12-2017
Bahjat-Abbas N, Luna A and White CD (2017). The Kerr-Schild double copy in curved spacetime. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2017 (12) 01-12-2017
Del Duca V, Laenen E, Magnea L, Vernazza L and White CD (2017). Universality of next-to-leading power threshold effects for colourless final states in hadronic collisions. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (11) 09-11-2017
Almelid Ø, Duhr C, Gardi E, McLeod A and White CD (2017). Bootstrapping the QCD soft anomalous dimension. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2017 (9) 18-09-2017
Luna A, Nicholson I, Ochirov A, O Connell D, Westerberg N, White CD and monteiro (2017). Perturbative spacetimes from Yang-Mills theory. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2017 (4) 01-04-2017
Luna A, Melville S, Naculich SG and White CD (2017). Next-to-soft corrections to high energy scattering in QCD and gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2017 (1) 12-01-2017
Courtial J, Tyc T, Bělín J, Oxburgh S, Cowie E and White CD (2017). Ideal-lens cloak and omnidirectional lens. Frontiers in Optics 2017. 01-01-2017
2016
Bonocore D, Laenen E, Magnea L, Vernazza L and White CD (2016). Non-abelian factorisation for next-to-leading-power threshold logarithms. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2016 (12) 22-12-2016
Luna A, Nicholson I, O’Connell D, White CD and monteiro (2016). The double copy: Bremsstrahlung and accelerating black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2016 (6) 01-06-2016
Magnea L, Bonocore D, Laenen E, Vernazza L and White CD (2016). On non-abelian next-to-leading-power threshold logarithms. 01-01-2016
Buckley A, Englert C, Ferrando J, Miller DJ, Moore L, Nördstrom K, Russell M and White CD (2016). Results from TopFitter. 01-01-2016
2015
Luna A, Monteiro R, O'Connell D and White CD (2015). The classical double copy for Taub–NUT spacetime. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 750, 272-277. 01-11-2015
Buckley A, Englert C, Ferrando J, Miller DJ, Moore L, Russell M and White CD (2015). Global fit of top quark effective theory to data. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 92 (9) 01-11-2015
Monteiro R, O'Connell D and White CD (2015). Gravity as a double copy of gauge theory: from amplitudes to black holes. International Journal of Modern Physics D, World Scientific Publishing vol. 24 (09) 31-07-2015
2014
Monteiro R, O’Connell D and White CD (2014). Black holes and the double copy. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2014 (12) 01-12-2014
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental PhysicsWho cares about fundamental science?Christopher White and Anthony Phillips
£246,248 Leverhulme Trust (02-10-2023 - 01-10-2026)
Amplitudes, Strings and Duality (CG 2022)Andreas Brandhuber, David Berman, Matthew Buican, Rodolfo Russo, David Vegh, Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Gabriele Travaglini, Christopher White, Bill Spence, Congkao Wen, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Ricardo Monteiro and Malcolm Perry
£1,477,966 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC) (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2026)
Amplitudes, Strings and DualityAndreas Brandhuber, Bill Spence, Rodolfo Russo, Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Matthew Buican, Michael Green, Steven Thomas, Steven Thomas, Gabriele Travaglini, Congkao Wen, Constantinos Papageorgakis, David Berman, Christopher White, David Vegh, Ricardo Monteiro and Malcolm Perry
£890,210 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC) (01-10-2020 - 31-03-2024)
Telescope Windows: low-vision scopes to cloaksChristopher White
£16,540 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-08-2016 - 28-02-2018)