DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

Frank Petriello pursues a research program in precision QCD in order to improve the Standard Model predictions for important hadron collider observables and their backgrounds. He has developed a variety of novel techniques to facilitate the ultra-precise comparison of theoretical predictions with experimental data. A second goal of his work is the development of new strategies to search for and study new physics at the Large Hadron Collider and in other experiments.

Honors and Awards

• U.S. Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
• Fellow of the American Physical Society

Selected Publications

• S. Mantry, F. Petriello, "Factorization and Resummation of Higgs Boson Differential Distributions in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory,"
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 093007 (2010)
• Y. Li, F. Petriello, S. Quackenbush, "Reconstructing a Z-prime Lagrangian using the LHC and low-energy data,"
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 055018 (2009)
• C. Anastasiou, R. Boughezal, F. Petriello, "Mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to Higgs boson production in gluon fusion,"
  JHEP 0904 003 (2009)
• K. Melnikov and F. Petriello, "The W boson production cross section at the LHC through O(alpha_s2),"
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 231803 (2006)
• C. Anastasiou, K. Melnikov and F. Petriello, "Higgs production at hadron colliders: differential cross sections through next-to-next-to-leading order,"
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 262002 (2004)