Terrance Figy Ph.D.

Theoretical particles physics and advanced research computing. 

My research is in theoretical particle physics. I have contributed to the development of several Monte Carlo simulation software tools.

Release Note -- VBFNLO 3.0

Julien Baglio (QuantumBasel), Francisco Campanario (Valencia U., IFIC), Tinghua Chen, Heiko Dietrich-Siebert (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP), Terrance Figy (Wichita State U.) et al.

e-Print: 2405.06990 [hep-ph]

 

Double Higgs boson production via photon fusion at muon colliders within the triplet Higgs model

Bathiya Samarakoon (Wichita State U.), Terrance M. Figy (Wichita State U.)

e-Print: 2312.12594 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.075015 (publication)

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 109 (2024) 7, 075015

 

NLO multijet merging for Higgs production beyond the VBF approximation

Tinghua Chen (Wichita State U.), Terrance M. Figy (Wichita State U.), Simon Plätzer (Graz U. and Vienna U. and Schrodinger Inst., Vienna)

e-Print: 2109.03730 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10671-9

Published in: Eur.Phys.J.C 82 (2022) 8, 704

 

A Projective Phase Space Generator for Hadronic Vector Boson Plus One Jet Production

Tinghua Chen (Wichita State U.), Terrance M. Figy (Wichita State U.), Walter T. Giele (Fermilab)

e-Print: 1907.03893 [hep-ph]

 

Report from Working Group 1 : Standard Model Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC

P. Azzi (INFN, Padua), S. Farry (Liverpool U.), P. Nason (INFN, Milan Bicocca and Milan Bicocca U.), A. Tricoli (Brookhaven Natl. Lab.), D. Zeppenfeld (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP) et al.

e-Print: 1902.04070 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.23731/CYRM-2019-007.1

Published in: CERN Yellow Rep.Monogr. 7 (2019), 1-220

 

A Forward Branching Phase Space Generator for Hadron colliders

Terrance M. Figy (Wichita State U.), Walter T. Giele (Fermilab)

e-Print: 1806.09678 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2018)203

Published in: JHEP 10 (2018), 203

 

Stress testing the vector-boson-fusion approximation in multijet final states

Francisco Campanario (Valencia U., IFIC and KIT, Karlsruhe), Terrance M. Figy (Wichita State U.), Simon Plätzer (Vienna U.), Michael Rauch (KIT, Karlsruhe), Peter Schichtel (Kaiserslautern U.) et al.

e-Print: 1802.09955 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.033003

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 98 (2018) 3, 033003

 

Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 4. Deciphering the Nature of the Higgs Sector

LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group • D. de Florian (ICAS, UNSAM, Buenos Aires) et al.

e-Print: 1610.07922 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.23731/CYRM-2017-002 , 10.2172/1345634

 

Beyond the t-channel Approximation: Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections to Electroweak Higgs Boson Production Plus Three Jets Production at the LHC

Francisco Campanario (Valencia U., IFIC), Terrance M. Figy (Manchester U.), Simon Plätzer (DESY), Malin Sjodahl (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.)

e-Print: 1407.5050 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.22323/1.211.0025

Published in: PoS LL2014 (2014), 025

 

Release Note - VBFNLO 2.7.0

J. Baglio (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP), J. Bellm (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP), F. Campanario (Valencia U., IFIC), B. Feigl (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP), J. Frank (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP) et al.

e-Print: 1404.3940 [hep-ph]

 

NLO QCD Corrections to Electroweak Higgs Boson Plus Three Jet Production at the LHC

Francisco Campanario (Valencia U., IFIC), Terrance M. Figy (Manchester U.), Simon Plätzer (DESY), Malin Sjödahl (Lund U.)

e-Print: 1311.5455 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.22323/1.197.0042

Published in: PoS RADCOR2013 (2013), 042

 

Electroweak Higgs Boson Plus Three Jet Production at Next-to-Leading-Order QCD

Francisco Campanario (Valencia U., IFIC), Terrance M. Figy (Manchester U.), Simon Plätzer (DESY), Malin Sjödahl (Lund U.)

e-Print: 1308.2932 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.211802

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 111 (2013) 21, 211802

 

Release Note -- Vbfnlo-2.6.0

K. Arnold (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP), J. Bellm (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP), G. Bozzi (Milan U. and INFN, Milan), F. Campanario (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP), C. Englert (Durham U., IPPP) et al.

e-Print: 1207.4975 [hep-ph]

 

Higgs boson production in association with a photon via weak boson fusion

Ken Arnold (KIT, Karlsruhe), Terrance Figy (CERN), Barbara Jager (Mainz U., Inst. Phys.), Dieter Zeppenfeld (KIT, Karlsruhe)

e-Print: 1110.2402 [hep-ph]

Published in:

 

The other Higgses, at resonance, in the Lee-Wick extension of the Standard Model

Terrance Figy (CERN), Roman Zwicky (Southampton U.)

e-Print: 1108.3765 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)145

Published in: JHEP 10 (2011), 145

 

VBFNLO: A parton level Monte Carlo for processes with electroweak bosons -- Manual for Version 3.0

J. Baglio (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP), J. Bellm (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP), G. Bozzi (Milan U. and INFN, Milan), M. Brieg (KIT, Karlsruhe), F. Campanario (Valencia U., IFIC) et al.

e-Print: 1107.4038 [hep-ph]

 

Higgs Production via Weak Boson Fusion in the Standard Model and the MSSM

Terrance Figy (CERN), Sophy Palmer (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP), Georg Weiglein (DESY)

e-Print: 1012.4789 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)105

Published in: JHEP 02 (2012), 105

 

Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to Higgs boson production in association with a photon via weak-boson fusion at the LHC

Ken Arnold (KIT, Karlsruhe), Terrance Figy (CERN), Barbara Jager (Wurzburg U.), Dieter Zeppenfeld (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP)

e-Print: 1006.4237 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)088

Published in: JHEP 08 (2010), 088

 

Tau-Sneutrino NLSP and Multilepton Signatures at the LHC

Terrance Figy (CERN), Krzysztof Rolbiecki (Durham U., IPPP), Yudi Santoso (Kansas U.)

e-Print: 1005.5136 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.075016

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 82 (2010), 075016

 

VBFNLO: A Parton level Monte Carlo for processes with electroweak bosons

K. Arnold (Karlsruhe U., ITP), M. Bahr (Karlsruhe U., ITP), Giuseppe Bozzi (Karlsruhe U., ITP), F. Campanario (Karlsruhe U., ITP and Valencia U. and Valencia U., IFIC), C. Englert (Karlsruhe U., ITP) et al.

e-Print: 0811.4559 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.03.006

Published in: Comput.Phys.Commun. 180 (2009), 1661-1670

 

Searching for Nambu-Goldstone Bosons at the LHC

Athanasios Dedes (Ioannina U.), Terrance Figy (Durham U., IPPP), Stefan Hoche (Durham U., IPPP), Frank Krauss (Durham U., IPPP), Thomas E.J. Underwood (Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst.)

e-Print: 0807.4666 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/036

Published in: JHEP 11 (2008), 036

 

Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to light Higgs Pair production via vector boson fusion

Terrance Figy (Durham U., IPPP)

e-Print: 0806.2200 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1142/S0217732308028181

Published in: Mod.Phys.Lett.A 23 (2008), 1961-1973

 

Higgs Working Group Summary Report

N.E. Adam (Princeton U.), T. Aziz (Tata Inst.), J.R. Andersen (CERN), A. Belyaev (Southampton U.), T Binoth (Edinburgh U.) et al.

e-Print: 0803.1154 [hep-ph]

Published in:

 

Charged Higgs-boson production in association with an electron and a neutrino at electron-positron colliders

Oliver Brein (Durham U., IPPP), Terrance Figy (Durham U., IPPP)

e-Print: 0710.4121 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.055004

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 77 (2008), 055004

 

Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to Higgs plus three jet production in vector-boson fusion

Terrance Figy (Durham U., IPPP), Vera Hankele (Karlsruhe U., ITP), Dieter Zeppenfeld (Karlsruhe U., ITP)

e-Print: 0710.5621 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/076

Published in: JHEP 02 (2008), 076

 

Anomalous Higgs boson couplings in vector boson fusion at the CERN LHC

V. Hankele (Karlsruhe U., ITP), G. Klamke (Karlsruhe U., ITP), D. Zeppenfeld (Karlsruhe U., ITP), T. Figy (Durham U., IPPP)

e-Print: hep-ph/0609075 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.095001

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 74 (2006), 095001

 

NLO QCD corrections to the jet activity in Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion

Terrance Maynard Figy (Wisconsin U., Madison)

 

TeV-scale string resonances at hadron colliders

Piyabut Burikham (Wisconsin U., Madison), Terrance Figy (Wisconsin U., Madison), Tao Han (Wisconsin U., Madison and Fermilab and Beijing, Inst. Theor. Phys.)

e-Print: hep-ph/0411094 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.019905 , 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.016005

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 71 (2005), 016005, Phys.Rev.D 71 (2005), 019905 (erratum)

 

QCD corrections to vector boson fusion processes

T. Figy (Wisconsin U., Madison), C. Oleari (Milan Bicocca U.), D. Zeppenfeld (Karlsruhe U., ITP)

e-Print: hep-ph/0407066 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.09.002

Published in: Nucl.Phys.B Proc.Suppl. 135 (2004), 9-13,

 

QCD corrections to jet correlations in weak boson fusion

Terrance Figy (Wisconsin U., Madison), Dieter Zeppenfeld (Wisconsin U., Madison)

e-Print: hep-ph/0403297 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2004.04.033

Published in: Phys.Lett.B 591 (2004), 297-303

 

Next-to-leading order jet distributions for Higgs boson production via weak boson fusion

T. Figy (Wisconsin U., Madison), C. Oleari (Durham U.), D. Zeppenfeld (Wisconsin U., Madison)

e-Print: hep-ph/0306109 [hep-ph]

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.073005

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 68 (2003), 073005

 

The Higgs Working Group: Summary Report

Higgs Working Group • D. Cavalli (INFN, Milan) et al.

e-Print: hep-ph/0203056 [hep-ph]

Published in:

 

Search for the standard model Higgs boson using vector boson fusion at the LHC

G. Azuelos (Montreal U. and TRIUMF), R. Mazini (Montreal U. and TRIUMF), C. Buttar (Sheffield U.), R. Harper (Sheffield U.), V. Cavasinni (Pisa U. and INFN, Pisa) et al.

Published in:

Professional Preparation:

University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, US Ph.D. 08/2006 Physics University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, US B.S. 05/2000 Physics

Appointments and Positions

2022 - present Associate Professor , Wichita State University, Physics , Wichita, Kansas, United States

2015 - 2022 Assistant Professor, Wichita State University, Physics, Wichita, KS, US

2015 - 2015 Ennovar Research Fellow , Wichita State University, Ennovar , Wichita, Kansas, US

2014 - 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor , Wichita State University, Physics , Wichita, Kansas, US

2011 - 2014 Postdoc, University of Manchester, Physics , Manchester, England, GB

2009 - 2011 Postdoc , European Organization for Nuclear Research, Theory , Geneva, Geneva, CH

2006 - 2009 Postdoc , Durham University, Physics , Durham, County Durham, GB

Awarded

• CC* Planning: Establishing a Sustainable Framework for High-Performance Computing Growth at Wichita State University,  PI, Amount: $100, 000, Period: 6/1/24-6/1/25
• Data-enabled Disaster Resilience Center at Wichita State University: Creation of a Digital Platform Ecosystem for Great Plains Disaster Resilience, Convergent Science Initiative, WSU, Co-PI and Co-Director, Amount: $300, 000, Period: 2020-2023
• The Application of Scalable Phase Space Sampling Algorithms to the Simulation of QCD Corrected Multi-Jet Events at Hadron Colliders, WSU URCA, PI, Amount: $3, 842, Period: 5/15/2021-12/31/2021
• The Implementation of the Private Higgs Model into FeynRules, WSU LAS, Faculty Professional Development Grant, PI, Amount: $2, 012, Period: 6/1/2020-7/31/2020

 

• Faculty Senator
• Director of HPC 

High Energy Physics Software Tools

VBFNLO - A parton level Monte Carlo for processes with electroweak bosons https://www.itp.kit.edu/vbfnlo 

HJETS - A tool for calculating cross sections for Higgs boson plus up to the three jets at NLO in perturbative QCD https://hjets.hepforge.org

For convenience, I have published a Docker container at https://hub.docker.com/r/drtmfigy/hjets_herwig7/

Computational Resources

• Open Science Grid [website]. Contact me if you are doing HEP research. There is an active OSG project that I can add you to.

• Beoshock High-Performance Computing at WSU [website]. Available to all faculty, staff, and students at WSU.

• BeoCat High-Performance Computing at KSU [website]. Available to all faculty, staff, and students from a higher-education instition in Kansas.

• XSEDE [website].  This is a gateway to many computational resources. You will need to write an allocation request.