Graham Shaw

Tel: (0044)(0)161-275-4175 Fax: (0044)(0)161-275-0480 graham.shaw@manchester.ac.uk  Address: School of Physics and Astronomy The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Back to particle physics group home page. Back to department home page. Links to pdg, archive, inspire, teaching web.

Books

" Particle Physics.." by B. R. Martin and G. Shaw. J.Wiley and Sons Ltd. 1992; Second Edition, 1997; Third Edition 2008. " Quantum Field Theory.." by F. Mandl and G. Shaw. J.Wiley and Sons Ltd. 1984; Revised Edition 1993; German translation ("Quantenfeldtheorie") by R. Bonisch, AULA-Verlag 1993; Second Edition 2010. " Pion pion interactions in particle physics.." by B.R.Martin, D.Morgan and G.Shaw. Academic Press 1976 Part author and co-editor with A.Donnachie of " Electromagnetic interactions of hadrons" volumes I and II, Plenum Press(NY) 1978 and 1979. Part author and co-editor with A.Donnachie and F. Close of " Electromagnetic interactions and hadron structure", Cambridge University Press 2007.

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Research

My research has always focussed on particle physics phenomenology, which is the place where theory and experiment meet, in order to test the former and understand the latter.

Diffractive Photoprocesses

From 1995-2007, my main research interest was in diffractive photoprocesses, and was stimulated by the continuing flood of experimental data on this subject, especially from the HERA facility in Hamburg.
To understand why such processes have stimulated so much experimental and theoretical interest, see my talk "Introduction to diffractive photoprocesses" at Photon2000.
My own research concentrated mainly on the QCD dipole model of diffraction, which gives a unified understanding of many different diffractive processes, and provides a framework for investigating fundamental features of QCD, like gluon saturation. For a brief survey of the dipole picture, see my talk at "Diffraction 2006."

Previous research interests include:

• Pion pion scattering and the universal curve .
• Low energy pion photoproduction.
• Symmetries of the electromagnetic current, especially the Delta I = 0,1 rule.
• QCD evolution of structure functions, by the Jacobi method.
• QCD sum rules (a) in two dimensional QCD and (b) for charmonium.
• Nuclear shadowing, generalized vector dominance and the parton model.
• Gluino detection via gluinonium .

Publications

Papers,since 1996, available on the web, may be found here. A full list of earlier publications may be found here.

Recent theses:  George Kerley; Janis Gravelis; Ruben Sandapen ; Andreas Pautz ; Mohamed Kelabi .

Teaching