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
Magic states of top quarksWhite CD and White MJ
Physical Review D, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 110 (11)
01-12-2024
What can abelian gauge theories teach us about kinematic algebras?Armstrong-Williams K, Nagy S, White CD and Wikeley S
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2024 (8)
21-08-2024
Exponentiation of soft quark effects from the replica trickvan Beekveld M, Vernazza L and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2024 (7)
11-07-2024
The uncertainty principle and classical amplitudesCristofoli A, Gonzo R, Moynihan N, O’Connell D, Ross A, Sergola M and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2024 (6)
26-06-2024
Next-to-soft radiation from a different anglevan Beekveld M, Danish A, Laenen E, Pal S, Tripathi A and White CD
Physical Review D, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 109 (7)
01-04-2024
2023
Celestial soft dressings from generalised Wilson linesNguyen K, Fukelman AR and White C
Proceedings of Science. vol. 436
08-11-2023
A spinorial double copy for N = 0 supergravityArmstrong-Williams K and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2023 (5)
05-05-2023
Mini-twistors and the Cotton double copyGonzález MC, Emond WT, Moynihan N, Rumbutis J and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer vol. 2023 (3)
23-03-2023
2022
The SAGEX review on scattering amplitudesTravaglini 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.
Journal of Physics a: Mathematical and Theoretical vol. 55 (44), 443001-443001. Editors: Travaglini G, Dorey P, Brandhuber A and McLoughlin T.
19-12-2022
Why is the Weyl double copy local in position space?Luna A, Moynihan N and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics, Scuola Internazionale Superiore Di Studi Avanzati (Sissa) vol. 2022 (12)
09-12-2022
Chapter 12: Amplitudes and collider physicsWhite CD
Journal of Physics a: Mathematical and General, Iop Publishing vol. 55 (44)
04-11-2022
Double copy of the multipole expansionChacón E, Luna A and White CD
Physical Review D, American Physical Society vol. 106 (8)
27-10-2022
Non-perturbative aspects of the self-dual double copyArmstrong-Williams K, White CD and Wikeley S
Journal of High Energy Physics, Scuola Internazionale Superiore Di Studi Avanzati (Sissa) vol. 2022 (8)
17-08-2022
Retrospectively evidencing research impact using online data miningWhite CD, Phillips A and Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha B
Research For All, Ucl Ioe Press vol. 6 (1), e06107-e06107.
01-03-2022
Alternative formulations of the twistor double copyChacón E, Nagy S and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2022 (3)
01-03-2022
2021
Threshold resummation of new partonic channels at next-to-leading powervan Beekveld M, Vernazza L and White CD
The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 2021 (12)
13-12-2021
Boomerang webs up to three-loop orderGardi E, Harley M, Lodin R, Palusa M, Smillie JM, White CD and Yeomans S
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2021 (12)
01-12-2021
The single copy of the gravitational holonomyAlawadhi R, Berman DS, White CD and Wikeley S
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2021 (10), 229-229.
28-10-2021
Double copy—from optics to quantum gravity: tutorialWhite CD
Journal of The Optical Society of America B, Optica Publishing Group vol. 38 (11)
18-10-2021
The Weyl double copy from twistor spaceChacón E, Nagy S and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2021 (5)
01-05-2021
New results from TopFitterBrown S, Buckley A, Englert C, Ferrando J, Galler P, Miller D, Wanotayaroj C, Warrack N and White C
Proceedings of Science. vol. 390
15-04-2021
New heavenly double copiesChacón E, García-Compeán H, Luna A, Monteiro R and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2021 (3)
26-03-2021
Twistorial Foundation for the Classical Double CopyWhite CD
Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 126 (6)
12-02-2021
2020
The convolutional double copy: a case study with a pointLuna A, Nagy S and White CD
The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 2020 (9), 62-62.
08-09-2020
Topology and Wilson lines: global aspects of the double copyAlfonsi L, White CD and Wikeley S
The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 2020 (7)
14-07-2020
Monopoles, shockwaves and the classical double copyBahjat-Abbas N, Stark-Muchão R and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer vol. 2020 (4)
16-04-2020
A tale of two exponentiations in N = 8 supergravity at subleading levelDi Vecchia P, Naculich SG, Russo R, Veneziano G and White CD
The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 2020 (3)
30-03-2020
Next-to-leading power threshold effects for inclusive and exclusive processes with final state jetsvan Beekveld M, Beenakker W, Laenen E and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer vol. 2020 (3)
18-03-2020
Effective field theory and scalar extensions of the top quark sectorEnglert C, Galler P and White CD
Physical Review D, American Physical Society vol. 101 (3)
27-02-2020
The role of soft quarks in next-to-leading power threshold effectsvan Beekveld M, Beenakker W, Laenen E, Misra A and White CD
14th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections. vol. 375
18-02-2020
Aspects of high energy scatteringWhite C
Scipost Physics Lecture Notes, Stichting Scipost
07-02-2020
Combinations of generalized lenses that satisfy the edge-imaging condition of transformation opticsTyc T, Bělín J, Oxburgh S, White CD, Cowie EN and Courtial J
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
Ideal-lens cloaks and new cloaking strategiesBělín J, Tyc T, Grunwald M, Oxburgh S, Cowie EN, White CD and Courtial J
Optics Express, Optical Society of America (Osa) vol. 27 (26), 37327-37336.
10-12-2019
Diagrammatic resummation of leading-logarithmic threshold effects at next-to-leading powerBahjat-Abbas N, Bonocore D, Sinninghe Damsté J, Laenen E, Magnea L, Vernazza L and White CD
The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 2019 (11)
04-11-2019
A tale of two exponentiations in N=8 supergravityDi Vecchia P, Luna A, Naculich SG, Russo R, Veneziano G and White CD
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, Elsevier vol. 798
11-09-2019
The classical double copy in three spacetime dimensionsGonzález MC, Melcher B, Ratliff K, Watson S and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2019 (7)
29-07-2019
Effective field theory in the top sector: Do multijets help?Englert C, Russell M and White CD
Physical Review D, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 99 (3)
01-02-2019
The self-dual classical double copy, and the Eguchi-Hanson instantonBerman DS, Chacón E, Luna A and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2019 (1)
11-01-2019
Perfect invisibility with ideal lensesBelín J, Tyc T, Grunwald M, Oxburgh S, Cowie EN, White CD and Courtial J
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. vol. Part F170-COSI 2019
01-01-2019
TopFitter: Fitting top-quark Wilson Coefficients to Run II dataBrown S, Buckley A, Englert C, Ferrando J, Galler P, Miller DJ, Moore L, Russell M, White C and Warrack N
Proceedings of Science. vol. 340
01-01-2019
2018
Biadjoint wiresBahjat-Abbas N, Stark-Muchão R and White CD
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics vol. 788, 274-279.
20-11-2018
On next-to-leading power threshold corrections in Drell-Yan production at N3LOBahjat-Abbas N, Sinninghe Damsté J, Vernazza L and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2018 (10)
23-10-2018
Ray-optical transformation optics with ideal thin lenses makes omnidirectional lensesCourtial J, Tom TYC, Jakub Běl N, Oxburgh S, Ferenczi G, Cowie EN and White CD
Optics Express vol. 26 (14), 17872-17888.
09-07-2018
Inelastic black hole scattering from charged scalar amplitudesLuna A, Nicholson I, O Connell D and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2018 (3)
08-03-2018
2017
Extended solutions for the biadjoint scalar fieldDe Smet PJ and White CD
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics vol. 775, 163-167.
10-12-2017
The Kerr-Schild double copy in curved spacetimeBahjat-Abbas N, Luna A and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2017 (12)
01-12-2017
Universality of next-to-leading power threshold effects for colourless final states in hadronic collisionsDel Duca V, Laenen E, Magnea L, Vernazza L and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics (11)
09-11-2017
Bootstrapping the QCD soft anomalous dimensionAlmelid Ø, Duhr C, Gardi E, McLeod A and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2017 (9)
18-09-2017
Perturbative spacetimes from Yang-Mills theoryLuna A, Nicholson I, Ochirov A, O Connell D, Westerberg N, White CD and monteiro
Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2017 (4)
01-04-2017
Next-to-soft corrections to high energy scattering in QCD and gravityLuna A, Melville S, Naculich SG and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2017 (1)
12-01-2017
Ideal-lens cloak and omnidirectional lensCourtial J, Tyc T, Bělín J, Oxburgh S, Cowie E and White CD
Frontiers in Optics 2017.
01-01-2017
2016
Non-abelian factorisation for next-to-leading-power threshold logarithmsBonocore D, Laenen E, Magnea L, Vernazza L and White CD
Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2016 (12)
22-12-2016
The double copy: Bremsstrahlung and accelerating black holesLuna A, Nicholson I, O’Connell D, White CD and monteiro
Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2016 (6)
01-06-2016
On non-abelian next-to-leading-power threshold logarithmsMagnea L, Bonocore D, Laenen E, Vernazza L and White CD
Proceedings of Science. vol. Part F126945
01-01-2016
Results from TopFitterBuckley A, Englert C, Ferrando J, Miller DJ, Moore L, Nördstrom K, Russell M and White CD
Proceedings of Science. vol. 2016-November
01-01-2016
2015
The classical double copy for Taub–NUT spacetimeLuna A, Monteiro R, O'Connell D and White CD
Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 750, 272-277.
01-11-2015
Global fit of top quark effective theory to dataBuckley A, Englert C, Ferrando J, Miller DJ, Moore L, Russell M and White CD
Physical Review D, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 92 (9)
01-11-2015
Gravity as a double copy of gauge theory: from amplitudes to black holesMonteiro R, O'Connell D and White CD
International Journal of Modern Physics D, World Scientific Publishing vol. 24 (09)
31-07-2015
2014
Black holes and the double copyMonteiro R, O’Connell D and White CD
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
11-01-2024 - 10-01-2027
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