Prof. Peter Z. Skands,

School of Physics and Astronomy
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  My Networks & Collaborations:

Spokesperson for the PYTHIA Collaboration 2021 - 2023
Deputy Spokesperson 2023 - 2024
Leading the VINCIA Project
Science Project Leader for LHC@home-Test4Theory


  Student Projects

  My Teaching

 3rd Year / Honours / Masters / PhD:

  My Research:

Particle-Physics Theory and Phenomenology

  • Physics at Colliders (LHC, FCC, CEPC)
  • Resonance Production and Decays
  • Quantum Chromodynamics
  • NNLO Matching
  • Electromagnetic & Weak Corrections
  • Multi-Parton Interactions & Underlying Event (MPI, UE)
  • Hadronization (Lund Strings)
  • Hadron Decays

Computer Physics and Monte Carlo Event Generators

  • Event Generators: PYTHIA and VINCIA
  • Parton-Shower Algorithms
  • Models of Hadronization, Multi-Parton Interactions, Colour Reconnections, Strangeness Enhancement, ...
  • Event-Generator Validation: MCPlots
  • Citizen Science: LHC@home/Test4Theory
  • Markov-Chain and Monte-Carlo Algorithms
  • Optimization, Uncertainties, Tuning
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  Recent News:

Jan 2025: PYTHIA 8.313 - with hadronisation flavour variations, updated closepacking settings, and an option for popcorn destructive interference
Dec 2024: Matching Z → hadrons at NNLO with Sector Showers - with B. El Menoufi, C. Preuss, and L. Scyboz
Jul 2024: Returned from sabbatical - back in Melbourne
May 2024: PYTHIA 8.312 - with faster QCD colour reconnections and reorganised example programs.
Apr 2024: Pythia Week 2024 - in Oxford

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