Terry Generet

 

I am a Research Associate in the high-energy physics group at the Cavendish Laboratory. Before that, I obtained my doctorate from RWTH Aachen University in Germany.

My main research interest is perturbative QCD, in particular higher-order calculations, all-order resummation and factorisation. A lot of my work has focused on the fragmentation process, using QCD factorisation to describe the production of hadrons in terms of perturbative, parton-level calculations and process-independent non-perturbative information. This formalism connects what can be calculated ab initio (parton-level cross sections) with what can be measured (hadron-level cross sections). It can also be used for the resummation of quasi-collinear effects, which are important for the production of massive particles at high energies. Processes I have studied in the context of this resummation include the production of b-quarks, either as a b-quark pair or in the decay of top-quarks, and the associated production of Higgs bosons and top-quarks. In addition to the resummation of collinear effects, I have also worked on soft-gluon resummation in heavy-quark fragmentation.

 

A list of publications can be found on Inspire.

 

Contact details:

• email: tg513@cam.ac.uk
• Office: Ray Dolby Centre
• Mailing Address: Ray Dolby Centre (HEP), JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0US, United Kingdom