Pedro Miguel Martins Ferreira

Email: pferreira@adf.isel.pt

Extensão: 1148

1998 – Ph.D. em Física, University of Liverpool

1995 – Mestrado em Física, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

1992 – Licenciatura em Física, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Situação actual

Professor Adjunto do ISEL.

Investigador do Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa.

Posições anteriores

10/01 – 2/07: Investigador Pós-doutorado, Universidade de Lisboa, CFTC

10/00 – 9/01: Investigador Pós-doutorado, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

10/98 – 9/99: Investigador Pós-doutorado, Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova

Cargos de gestão académica

03/07 – 09/10: Membro da Comissão Coordenadora da Área Científica de Física do ISEL

03/07 – 09/10: Membro da Comissão Científica do Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e Automação do ISEL

03/07 – 09/10: Membro do Conselho Científico do ISEL

Principais áreas de investigação

Fenomenologia de Física das Partículas: modelos de dois dubletos de Higgs; quebra de simetria em teorias com vários campos escalares; física do quark top.

Researcher profile

ResearcherID:  A-2852-2009

Publicações

Livros

A. Amaro, P. Ferreira, “Fisiquipédia 8 – Manual de Física-Química do 8º ano”, Raiz Editora, 2014.

Artigos publicados em revistas internacionais com referee

P.M. Ferreira, “The vacuum structure of the Higgs complex singlet-doublet model “, Phys. Rev. D94 (2016), 096011.

P.M. Ferreira, W. Grimus, D. Jurciukonis, L. Lavoura, “Scotogenic model for co-bimaximal mixing”, JHEP 1607 (2016) 010.

P.M. Ferreira, Bogumila Swiezewska, “One-loop contributions to neutral minima in the inert doublet model”, JHEP 1604 (2016) 099.

P.M. Ferreira, W. Grimus, D. Jurciukonis, L. Lavoura, “Flavour symmetries in a renormalizable SO(10) model”, Nucl. Phys. B906 (2016) 289-320.

P.M. Ferreira, Howard E. Haber, Edward Santos, “Preserving the validity of the Two-Higgs Doublet Model up to the Planck scale”, Phys. Rev. D92 (2015) 033003.

P.M. Ferreira, L. Lavoura, “New textures for the lepton mass matrices”, Nucl.Phys. B891 (2014) 378.

P.M. Ferreira, Renato Guedes, Marco O.P. Sampaio, Rui Santos, “Wrong sign and symmetric limits and non-decoupling in 2HDMs”, J. High Energy Phys. 1412 (2014) 067.

P.M. Ferreira, John F. Gunion, Howard E. Haber, Rui Santos, “Probing wrong-sign Yukawa couplings at the LHC and a future linear collider”, Phys. Rev. D89 (2014)  115003.

A. Arhrib, P.M. Ferreira and R. Santos, “Are There Hidden Scalars in LHC Higgs Results?”, J. High Energy Phys. 1403 (2014) 053.

P.M. Ferreira, L. Lavoura and P.O. Ludl, “A new A4 model for lepton mixing”, Phys. Lett. B 726 (2013) 767.

P.M. Ferreira, L. Lavoura and P.O. Ludl, “Five models for lepton mixing”, J. High Energy Phys. 1308 (2013) 113.

A. Barroso, P.M. Ferreira, I.P. Ivanov and Rui Santos, “Metastability bounds on the two Higgs doublet model”, J. High Energy Phys. 1306 (2013) 045.

A. Barroso, P.M. Ferreira, I.P. Ivanov, R. Santos and Joao P. Silva, “Evading death by vacuum”, Eur. Phys. J. C 73 (2013) 2537.

P.M. Ferreira, R. Santos, Howard E. Haber and Joao P. Silva, “Mass-degenerate Higgs bosons at 125 GeV in the two-Higgs-doublet model”, Phys.Rev. D 87 (2013) 055009.

G.C. Branco, P.M. Ferreira, L. Lavoura, M.N Rebelo, M.T. Sher and J.P. Silva, “Theory and phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models”, Physics Reports 516 (2012) 1.

P.M. Ferreira and L. Lavoura, “Texture-zero model for the lepton mass matrices”, Modern Physics Letters A 27 (2012) 1250159.

A. Barroso, P.M. Ferreira, R. Santos and J.P. Silva, “Probing the scalar-pseudoscalar mixing in the 125 GeV Higgs particle with current data”, Physical Review D 86 (2012) 015022.

P.M. Ferreira, R. Santos, M. Sher and Joao P. Silva, “Could the LHC two-photon signal correspond to the heavier scalar in two-Higgs-doublet models?”, Physical Review D 85 (2012) 035020.

P.M. Ferreira, R. Santos, M. Sher and Joao P. Silva, “Implications of the LHC two-photon signal for two-Higgs-doublet models”, Physical Review D 85 (2012) 077703.

P.M. Ferreira, W. Grimus, L. Lavoura and P.O. Ludl, “Maximal CP Violation in Lepton Mixing from a Model with Delta(27) flavour Symmetry”, Journal of High Eenergy Physics 1209 (2012) 128.

P.M. Ferreira, L. Lavoura and João P. Silva, “A Soft origin for CKM-type CP violation”, Phys. Lett.B 704 (2011) 179.

P.M. Ferreira and João P. Silva, “Abelian symmetries in the two-Higgs-doublet model with fermions”, Phys. Rev. D 83 (2011) 065026.

P.M. Ferreira, Howard E. Haber, M. Maniatis, O. Nachtmann and João P. Silva, “Geometric picture of generalized-CP and Higgs-family transformations in the two-Higgs-doublet model”, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 26 (2011) 769.

P.M. Ferreira, Howard E. Haber and João P. Silva, “Basis invariant conditions for supersymmetry in the two-Higgs-doublet model”, Phys. Rev. D 82 (2010) 016001.

P.M. Ferreira, M. Maniatis, O. Nachtmann and João P. Silva, “CP properties of symmetry-constrained two-Higgs-doublet models”, Journal of High Energy Physics 1008 (2010) 125.

P.M. Ferreira, L. Lavoura and João P. Silva, “Renormalization-group constraints on Yukawa alignment in multi-Higgs-doublet models”, Phys. Lett. B 688 (2010) 341.

P.M. Ferreira and João P. Silva, “A two-Higgs doublet model with remarkable CP properties”, Eur. Phys. Jour. C 69 (2010) 45.

P.M. Ferreira and D.R.T. Jones, “Bounds on scalar masses in two Higgs doublet models”, J. High Energy Physics 8 (2009) 069.

P.M. Ferreira and R. Santos, “Impact of flavor-changing neutral current top quark interactions on BR(t -> bW)”, Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 114006.

P.M. Ferreira, H.E. Haber and J.P. Silva, “Generalized CP symmetries and special regions of parameter space in the two-Higgs-doublet model”, Phys. Rev. D 79 (2009) 116004.

P.R.A. Coimbra, P.M. Ferreira, R.B. Guedes,O. Oliveira, A. Onofre, R. Santos and Miguel Won, “Dimension six flavor changing neutral current operators and top-quark production at the LHC”, Phys. Rev. D 79 (2009) 014006.

P.M. Ferreira and J.P. Silva, “Discrete and continuous symmetries in multi-Higgs-doublet models”, Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008) 116007.

P.M. Ferreira, R.B. Guedes and R. Santos, “Combined effects of strong and electroweak flavor changing neutral current effective operators in top quark physics at the CERN LHC”, Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 114008.

T. Lari et al., “Collider aspects of flavor physics at high Q”, Eur. Phys. J. C 57 (2008) 183.

P.M. Ferreira, R.B. Guedes and R. Santos, “Lepton flavour violating processes at the International Linear Collider”, Phys. Rev. D 75 (2007) 055015.

A. Barroso, P.M. Ferreira, R. Santos and João P. Silva, “Stability of the normal vacuum in multi-Higgs-doublet models”, Phys. Rev. D 74 (2006) 085016.

P.M. Ferreira and R. Santos, “Contributions from dimension six strong flavor changing operators to t anti-t, t plus gauge boson, and t plus Higgs boson production at the LHC”, Phys. Rev. D 74 (2006) 014006.

P.M. Ferreira and R. Santos, “Strong flavor changing effective operator contributions to single top quark production”, Phys. Rev. D 73 (2006) 054025.

P.M. Ferreira, O. Oliveira and R. Santos, “Flavor changing strong interaction effects on top quark physics at the LHC”, Phys. Rev. D 73 (2006) 034011.

A. Barroso, P.M. Ferreira and R. Santos, “Charge and CP symmetry breaking in two Higgs doublet models”, Phys. Lett. B 632 (2006) 684.

A. Barroso and P.M. Ferreira, “Charge breaking bounds in the Zee model”, Phys. Rev. D 72 (2005) 075010.

P.M. Ferreira, R. Santos and A. Barroso, “Stability of the tree-level vacuum in two Higgs doublet models against charge or CP spontaneous violation”, Phys. Lett. B 603 (2004) 219; Err. Ibid. B 629 (2005) 114.

P.M. Ferreira, “Minimization of a one loop charge breaking effective potential”, Phys. Lett. B 512 (2001) 379; Err. Ibid. B 518 (2001) 334.

P.M. Ferreira, “A Full one loop charge and color breaking effective potential”, Phys. Lett. B 509 (2001) 120; Err. Ibid. B 518 (2001) 333.

P.M. Ferreira and J. Gracey, “Nonzeta knots in the renormalization of the Wess-Zumino model?”, Phys. Lett. B 424 (1998) 85.

P.M. Ferreira and J. Gracey, “The Beta function of the Wess-Zumino model at O (1 / N**2)”, Nucl. Phys. B 525 (1998) 435.

P.M. Ferreira, I. Jack, D.R.T. Jones and C.G. North, “Beta functions in large N(f) supersymmetric gauge theories”, Nucl. Phys. B 504 (1997) 108.

P.M. Ferreira, I. Jack and D.R.T. Jones, “Large N supersymmetric beta functions”, Phys. Lett. B 399 (1997) 258.

P.M. Ferreira, I. Jack and D.R.T. Jones, “The Quasiinfrared fixed point at higher loops”, Phys. Lett. B392 (1997) 376.

P.M. Ferreira, I. Jack and D.R.T. Jones, “The Three loop SSM beta functions”, Phys. Lett. B 387 (1996) 80.

P.M. Ferreira, I. Jack and D.R.T. Jones, “Infrared Soft Universality”, Phys. Lett. B 357 (1995) 359.

Artigos publicados em proceedings de conferências internacionais

Rui Santos, P.M. Ferreira, Renato Guedes, John F. Gunion, Howard E. Haber, Marco O.P. Sampaio, “The CP-conserving 2HDM after the 8 TeV run”, PoS DIS2014 (2014) 127.

A. Barroso, P.M. Ferreira, I. Ivanov, R. Santos, João P. Silva, “Avoiding Death by Vacuum”, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 447 (2013) 012051.

N. Barros e Sá, A. Barroso, P. Ferreira and R. Santos, “Vacuum Stability in two-Higgs doublet models”, “cHarged 2008 – Prospects for Charged Higgs Discovery at Colliders”, POS(cHarged2008) (2008) 14.

P.M. Ferreira, R. Guedes and R. Santos, “Lepton flavour violation at the ILC”, “PIC2007 – Physics in Collision”, Acta Phys. Polon. Supp. 1 (2008) 433.

P. Ferreira and R. Santos, “Flavor changing effective operators to the physics of the top quark at LHC”, “TOP 2006: International Workshop on Top Quark Physics”, POS(TOP2006) (2006) 004.

A. Barroso, P. Ferreira and R. Santos, “Tree-level vacuum stability in multi Higgs models”, “EPS International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics”, PoS HEP2005 (2006) 337.

A. Barroso, P. Ferreira and R. Santos, “Tree-level vacuum stability in two Higgs doublet models”, “ICHEMP05, International Conference on High Energy and Mathematical Physics”, African Journal of Mathematical Physics Vol 31 (2006) 103.

Teses

P.M. Ferreira, “High Order Calculations in Supersymmetric Theories”, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Liverpool, UK, 1998.

Livros de divulgação científica da área da Física

Co-autor do livro “O Código Secreto”, Colecção Ciência Aberta, No. 137, Editora Gradiva, 2005.

Tradução de livros de divulgação científica da área da Física

I. Stewart, “Cartas a uma Jovem Matemática”, Ed. Relógio d’Água, 2006.

B. Greene, “O Tecido do Cosmos”, Colecção Ciência Aberta, No. 150, Editora Gradiva, 2006.

Diploma de Mérito na 2ª edição dos Prémios Científicos IPL-CGD na área das Tecnologias e Engenharias.