Theoertical Particle Physics

Nick is a Professor at Southampton University and the Director of the Faculty of Physical Science and Engineering Graduate School.

He completed his PhD in collider phenomenology in 1993 at Southampton University. He performed his early research work at Yale and Boston Universities in the US before returning to Southampton in 1999 on a UK government 5 year fellowship.

His work centres on strongly interacting particle systems, including composite Higgs models, and he played a large role in applying string theory to study the strong nuclear force and the mechanism of mass generation. Much of his work centres on the structure of the vacuum so in a sense he works on nothing.

1. Kazem Bitaghsir Fadafan, Jesus Cruz Rojas, Nick Evans, Deconfined, Massive Quark Phase at High Density and Compact Stars \, 2019, arXiv: 1911.12705 [hep-ph]
2. Nick Evans, Carlisson Miller, Marc Scott, “Inverse Magnetic Catalysis in Bottom-Up Holographic QCD”, Physical Review D, 6 (2016), 066002
3. Nick Evans, Astrid Gebauer, Keun-Young Kim, Maria Magou, “Holographic Description of the Phase Diagram of a Chiral Symmetry Breaking Gauge Theory”, JHEP, 03:132 (2010)
4. Johanna Erdmenger, Nick Evans, Ingo Kirsch, Ed Threlfall, “Mesons in Gauge/Gravity Duals - A Review”, European Physical Journal, A35 (2008), 81-33
5. J. Babington, J. Erdmenger, Nick J. Evans, Z. Guralnik, I. Kirsch, “Chiral symmetry breaking and pions in nonsupersymmetric gauge / gravity duals”, Physical Review D, 69 (2004), 066007

• University of Southampton