Prof Bill Spence
Professor of Theoretical Physics
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Interests
My research interests are in string theory and its applications in physics and mathematics. Particular past areas of interest have been the geometry of branes in M theory, topological field theories, and manifolds of exceptional holonomy. More recently I have worked on applications related to twistor theory, on celestial amplitudes and on new results involving the double copy.Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics2024
Brown GR, Gowdy J and Spence B (2024). Self-dual fields on self-dual backgrounds and the double copy. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 109 (2) 15-01-2024
2023
Brown GR, Gowdy J and Spence B (2023). Celestial twistor amplitudes. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 108 (6) 14-09-2023
2021
Brandhuber A, Brown GR, Gowdy J, Spence B and Travaglini G (2021). Celestial superamplitudes. Physical Review D vol. 104 (4) 31-08-2021
2020
Spence W, Berman D and Alawadhi R (2020). Weyl doubling. The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 127 21-09-2020
Alawadhi R, Berman DS, Spence B and Veiga DP (2020). S-duality and the double copy. The Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) vol. 2020 (3) 11-03-2020
2016
Brandhuber A, Hughes E, Panerai R, Spence B and Travaglini G (2016). The connected prescription for form factors in twistor space. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2016 (11) 23-11-2016
Brandhuber A, Hughes E, Spence B and Travaglini G (2016). One-loop soft theorems via dual superconformal symmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2016 (3) 14-03-2016
2014
Penante B, Spence B, Travaglini G and Wen C (2014). On super form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (4) 11-04-2014
2011
Brandhuber A, Spence B, Travaglini G and Yang G (2011). Form factors in N=4 super Yang-Mills and periodic Wilson loops. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS vol. 2011 (1) 01-01-2011
Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2011). Tree-level formalism. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL vol. 44 (45) 01-01-2011
2010
Brandhuber A, Spence B, Travaglini G and Yang G (2010). A note on dual MHV diagrams in N=4 SYM. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (12) 01-12-2010
Brandhuber A, Heslop P, Katsaroumpas P, Nguyen D, Spence B, Spradlin M and Travaglini G (2010). A surprise in the amplitude/Wilson loop duality. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (7) 01-07-2010
2009
Katsaroumpas P, Spence B and Travaglini G (2009). One-loop N=8 supergravity coefficients from N=4 super Yang-Mills. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (8) 01-08-2009
Anastasiou C, Brandhuber A, Heslop P, Khoze VV, Spence B and Travaglini G (2009). Two-loop polygon Wilson loops in N=4 SYM. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (5) 01-05-2009
Brandhuber A, Heslop P, Nasti A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2009). Four-point amplitudes in N=8 supergravity and Wilson loops. NUCL PHYS B vol. 807 (1-2), 290-314. 21-01-2009
2007
Brandhuber A, Spence B, Travaglini G and Zoubos K (2007). One-loop MHV rules and pure yang-mills. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (7) 01-07-2007
Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2007). Twistor inspired methods in gauge theory and gravity. CONTEMP PHYS vol. 48 (3), 131-142. 01-05-2007
Brandhuber A, McNamara S, Spence B and Travaglini G (2007). Recursion relations for one-loop gravity amplitudes. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (3) 01-03-2007
Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2007). Amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills and MHV diagrams. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (2) 01-02-2007
2006
McNamara S, Papageorgakis C, Ramgoolam S and Spence WJ (2006). Finite N effects on the collapse of fuzzy spheres. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (5) 01-05-2006
Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2006). From trees to loops and back. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (1) 01-01-2006
2005
Brandhuber A, McNamara S, Spence B and Travaglini G (2005). Loop amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills from generalised unitarity. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (10) 01-10-2005
Bedford J, Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2005). A recursion relation for gravity amplitudes. NUCL PHYS B vol. 721, 98-110. 15-08-2005
Bedford J, Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2005). Non-supersymmetric loop amplitudes and MHV vertices. NUCL PHYS B vol. 712 (1-2), 59-85. 18-04-2005
Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2005). One-loop gauge theory amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills from MHV vertices. NUCL PHYS B vol. 706 (1-2), 150-180. 31-01-2005
Bedford J, Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2005). A twistor approach to one-loop amplitudes in N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. NUCL PHYS B vol. 706 (1-2), 100-126. 31-01-2005
Spence WJ, TRAVAGLINI G and Brandhuber A (2005). One-loop gauge theory amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills from MHV vertices. Nuc. Phys. B vol. 706 01-01-2005
Spence WJ, TRAVAGLINI G, Brandhuber A and Bedford J (2005). A recursion relation for gravity amplitudes. Nuclear Physics B vol. B721, 98-110. 01-01-2005
Spence WJ, TRAVAGLINI G, Brandhuber A and Bedford J (2005). Non-supersymmetric loop amplitudes and MHV vertices. Nuc. Phys. B vol. B712 01-01-2005
Spence WJ, BRANDHUBER A, Travaglini G and Bedford J (2005). A Twistor Approach to One-Loop Amplitudes in N=1 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory. Nuclear Physics vol. B706 01-01-2005
2004
Ramgoolam S, Spence B and Thomas S (2004). Resolving brane collapse with 1/N corrections in non-Abelian DBI. NUCL PHYS B vol. 703 (1-2), 236-276. 20-12-2004
2003
de Medeiros P and Spence B (2003). Four-dimensional topological Einstein-Maxwell gravity. CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV vol. 20 (11), 2075-2086. 07-06-2003
2002
de Medeiros P, Hull C, Spence B and Figueroa-O'Farrill J (2002). Conformal topological Yang-Mills theory and de Sitter holography. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (8) 01-08-2002
2001
SOLOVIEV O, Spence W and Russakovskii A (2001). Fallback options. VIII International Conference: Forecasting Financial Markets, London 30 May to 01 June, 2001. 30-05-2001
1991
Hull CM, Papadopoulos G and Spence B (1991). Gauge symmetries for (p, q) supersymmetric sigma models. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 363 (2-3), 593-621. 01-10-1991
HULL CM and SPENCE B (1991). COUPLING THE WESS-ZUMINO-WITTEN MODEL TO YANG-MILLS FIELDS. Modern Physics Letters A, World Scientific Publishing vol. 6 (11), 969-976. 10-04-1991
Hull CM and Spence B (1991). The geometry of the gauged sigma-model with wess-zumino term. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 353 (2), 379-426. 01-04-1991
Hull CM, Spence B and Vázquez-Bello JL (1991). The geometry of quantum gauge theories: A superspace formulation of BRST symmetry. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 348 (1), 108-124. 01-01-1991
1990
Hull CM and Spence B (1990). The (2, 0) supersymmetric Wess-Zumino-Witten model. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 345 (2-3), 493-508. 01-12-1990
Hull CM and Spence B (1990). N = 2 current algebra and coset models. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 241 (3), 357-364. 01-05-1990
1989
Hull CM and Spence B (1989). The gauged nonlinear sigma model with Wess-Zumino term. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 232 (2), 204-210. 01-11-1989
1987
Spence B and Thomas S (1987). Consistency and component-field structure of gauge-invariant free open superstrings. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 286, 409-428. 01-01-1987
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental PhysicsAmplitudes, 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)
Facility for Materials EngineeringMichael Reece and Bill Spence
£313,840 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-04-2015 - 31-03-2020)