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Professor Ben Allanach

Career

  • 2014-date Principal Investigator on Cambridge STFC High Energy Physics theory consolidated grant
  • 2011-date Professor of Theoretical Physics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2022-2023 Scientific Associate, CERN (on sabbatical leave from Cambridge)
  • 2009-2010 Reader, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2004-2008 Lecturer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2004-2009 PPARC Advanced Fellow, University of Cambridge
  • 2002-2004 Postdoctoral researcher, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules Theorie
  • 2000-2002 Fellow, TH Division, CERN
  • 1998-2000 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 1995-1998 Higher Scientific Officer, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Research

Ben is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics High Energy Physics research group and The Cambridge Pheno Working Group based at the Cavendish Laboratory. He is a particle phenomenologist and is primarily interested in interpreting data coming from the CERN experiments in terms of new particles and forces. Then he tries to rule such new particles and forces out with other data. If this doesn't work, he asks what theoretical framework do they come from and can this explain unanswered mysteries.

Lecturing

Part III (Master's course), lecture notes and accompanying youtube lectures:

Symmetries,<br /><br /> Particles<br /><br /> and<br /><br /> Fields

Ph.D. Students

  • Eetu Loisa: 2021-
  • Hannah Banks: 2019-2023
  • Maeve Madigan: 2018-2021
  • Tom Cridge: 2014-2018
  • Sophie Renner: 2012-2016
  • Matt Dolan: 2007-2010
  • Jordan Skittrall: 2006-2009
  • Steve Kom: 2005-2008

Music: Professor Jammin

Selected External Activities

Publications

Flavonstrahlung in the B 3 − L 2 Z′ model at current and future colliders
B Allanach, E Loisa
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2023)
2023,
253
(doi: 10.1007/jhep03(2023)253)
Flavonstrahlung in the $B_3-L_2$ $Z'$ Model at Current and Future Colliders
B Allanach, E Loisa
(2022)
(link to publication)
The Rumble in the Meson: a leptoquark versus a $Z^\prime$ to fit $b \rightarrow s μ^+ μ^-$ anomalies including 2022 LHCb $R_{K^{(\ast)}}$ measurements
B Allanach, J Davighi
(2022)
(link to publication)
$M_W$ helps select $Z^\prime $ models for $b\rightarrow s \ell \ell $ anomalies
B Allanach, J Davighi
– Eur Phys J C Part Fields
(2022)
82,
745
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10693-3)
Review of Particle Physics
RL Workman, VD Burkert, V Crede, E Klempt, U Thoma, L Tiator, K Agashe, G Aielli, BC Allanach, C Amsler, M Antonelli, EC Aschenauer, DM Asner, H Baer, SW Banerjee, RM Barnett, L Baudis, CW Bauer, JJ Beatty, VI Belousov, J Beringer, A Bettini, O Biebel, KM Black, E Blucher, R Bonventre, VV Bryzgalov, O Buchmuller, MA Bychkov, RN Cahn, M Carena, A Ceccucci, A Cerri, RS Chivukula, G Cowan, K Cranmer, O Cremonesi, G D'Ambrosio, T Damour, D De Florian, A De Gouvêa, T DeGrand, P De Jong, S Demers, BA Dobrescu, M D'Onofrio, M Doser, HK Dreiner, P Eerola, U Egede, S Eidelman, AX El-Khadra, J Ellis, SC Eno, J Erler, VV Ezhela, W Fetscher, BD Fields, A Freitas, H Gallagher, Y Gershtein, T Gherghetta, MC Gonzalez-Garcia, M Goodman, C Grab, AV Gritsan, C Grojean, DE Groom, M Grünewald, A Gurtu, T Gutsche, HE Haber, M Hamel, C Hanhart, S Hashimoto, Y Hayato, A Hebecker, S Heinemeyer, JJ Hernández-Rey, K Hikasa, J Hisano, A Höcker, J Holder, L Hsu, J Huston, T Hyodo, A Ianni, M Kado, M Karliner, UF Katz, M Kenzie, VA Khoze, SR Klein, F Krauss, M Kreps, P Križan, B Krusche, Y Kwon, O Lahav, J Laiho
– Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
(2022)
2022,
ARTN 083C01
(doi: 10.1093/ptep/ptac097)
Semisimple extensions of the Standard Model gauge algebra (vol 104, 035035, 2021)
BC Allanach, B Gripaios, J Tooby-Smith
– Physical Review D
(2022)
106,
019901
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.019901)
$M_W$ helps select $Z^\prime$ models for $b \rightarrow s \ell \ell$ anomalies
B Allanach, J Davighi
(2022)
(link to publication)
Simple and statistically sound recommendations for analysing physical theories
SS AbdusSalam, FJ Agocs, BC Allanach, P Athron, C Balázs, E Bagnaschi, P Bechtle, O Buchmueller, A Beniwal, J Bhom, S Bloor, T Bringmann, A Buckley, A Butter, JE Camargo-Molina, M Chrzaszcz, J Conrad, JM Cornell, M Danninger, J de Blas, A De Roeck, K Desch, M Dolan, H Dreiner, O Eberhardt, J Ellis, B Farmer, M Fedele, H Flächer, A Fowlie, TE Gonzalo, P Grace, M Hamer, W Handley, J Harz, S Heinemeyer, S Hoof, S Hotinli, P Jackson, F Kahlhoefer, K Kowalska, M Krämer, A Kvellestad, ML Martinez, F Mahmoudi, DM Santos, GD Martinez, S Mishima, K Olive, A Paul, MT Prim, W Porod, A Raklev, JJ Renk, C Rogan, L Roszkowski, R Ruiz de Austri, K Sakurai, A Scaffidi, P Scott, EM Sessolo, T Stefaniak, P Stöcker, W Su, S Trojanowski, R Trotta, Y-L Sming Tsai, J Van den Abeele, M Valli, AC Vincent, G Weiglein, M White, P Wienemann, L Wu, Y Zhang
– Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain)
(2022)
85,
052201
(doi: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac60ac)
Hide and seek with the third family hypercharge model’s $Z^\prime $ at the large hadron collider
BC Allanach, H Banks
– European Physical Journal C
(2022)
82,
279
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10191-6)
A $ν$ Supersymmetric Anomaly-free Atlas
BC Allanach, M Madigan, J Tooby-Smith
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2022)
2022,
144
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP02(2022)144)
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Email

bca20@cam.ac.uk

Room

B2.04

Telephone

01223 766889

Personal homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/bca20/index.html

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