Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
- Theoretical High Energy Physics
- Particle Physics Phenomenology
- Collider Physics
- Quantum Chromodynamics
- Computer Physics, Monte Carlo Event Generators
- Collaborations: PYTHIA, VINCIA, LHC@home/Test4Theory
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Education/Academic qualification
Theoretical Physics, PhD, Phenomenological Studies of Supersymmetry and the Strong Force, Lunds Universitet (Lund University)
1 Sept 2001 → 14 Oct 2004
Award Date: 14 Oct 2004
Physics, Candidatus Scientiarum (5-year Masters degree), L-Violating Supersymmetry: Implementation in PYTHIA and Study of LHC Discovery Potential
2000 → 2001
Award Date: 6 Aug 2001
External positions
Staff Scientist (LD), CERN - Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
1 Oct 2009 → 30 Sept 2014
Associate Scientist (tenure-track), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
15 Mar 2007 → 30 Sept 2009
Research Associate (post doc), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
1 Nov 2004 → 14 Mar 2007
Research area keywords
- Numerical Modelling
- Monte Carlo
- Particle Physics
- Theoretical Physics
- High-Energy Physics
- QCD
- Markov Chains
- Citizen Science
- Optimisation
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Tackling the computational bottleneck in precision particle physics
Skands, P. & Preuss, C.
31/05/22 → 30/05/25
Project: Research
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Bridging the accuracy gap: High-precision parton showers for colliders
2/10/23 → 1/10/26
Project: Research
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Emergent phenomena in quantum chromodynamics
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University
30/06/17 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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MCnetITN3: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action: Innovative Training Network entitled “INNOVATIVE NETWORK FOR MONTE CARLO EVENT GENERATORS FOR LHC PHYSICS” with the acronym “MCnetITN3”
Seymour, M. H., Andersen, J., buckley, A., Schumann, S., Gieseke, S., Maltoni, F., Lönnblad, L., Nurse, E., Richardson, P. J., Plehn, T., Skands, P., Hoche, S., Herquet, M., Bahr, M., Beinker, M. & Stichelbaut, F.
1/04/17 → 31/03/21
Project: Research
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Beautiful strings
Skands, P., Egede, U. & Kreps, M.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University – Internal School Contribution
1/06/23 → 31/05/26
Project: Research
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Sector showers for hadron collisions
Brooks, H., Preuss, C. T. & Skands, P., 1 Jul 2020, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020, 7, 58 p., 32.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access21 Citations (Scopus) -
Coherent Showers in Decays of Coloured Resonances
Brooks, H. M. & Skands, P., 11 Oct 2019, In: Physical Review D. 100, 7, 24 p., 076006.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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An introduction to PYTHIA 8.2
Sjostrand, T., Ask, S., Christiansen, J. R., Corke, R., Desai, N., Ilten, P., Mrenna, S., Prestel, S., Rasmussen, C. O. & Skands, P. Z., 2015, In: Computer Physics Communications. 191, p. 159-177 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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A framework for second-order parton showers
Li, H. T. & Skands, P., 10 Aug 2017, In: Physics Letters B. 771, p. 59-66 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile52 Citations (Scopus) -
String formation beyond leading colour
Christiansen, J. R. & Skands, P. Z., 2015, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015, 8, p. 1-51 51 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access198 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship
Skands, Peter (Recipient), 2 Mar 2023
Prize: Competitive Fellowships
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CERN Award for Extraordinary Service to the Organization
Skands, Peter (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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