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Professor Ben Allanach

Career

  • 2014-date Principal Investigator on Cambridge STFC High Energy Physics theory consolidated grant
  • 2011-date Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2022-2023 Scientific Associate, CERN (on sabbatical leave from Cambridge)
  • 2009-2010 Reader, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2004-2008 Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 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.

Ben is a particle phenomenologist and is primarily interested in interpreting data coming from the CERN experiments in terms of new particles and forces. 

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

Mass spectrum in R-parity violating minimal supergravity and benchmark points
BC Allanach, MA Bernhardt, HK Dreiner, CH Kom, P Richardson
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2007)
75,
035002
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.75.035002)
The dark side of mSUGRA
BC Allanach, CG Lester, AM Weber
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2006)
2006,
065
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/065)
Working group report: Flavor physics and model building
MK Parida, N Sinha, B Adhikary, B Allanach, A Alok, KS Babu, B Brahmachari, D Choudhury, EJ Chun, PK Das, A Ghosal, D Hitlin, WS Hou, S Kumar, HN Li, E Ma, SK Majee, G Majumdar, B Mishra, G Mohanty et al.
– Pramana
(2006)
67,
849
(doi: 10.1007/s12043-006-0097-7)
Working group report: Collider Physics
S Banerjee, RM Godbole, S Raychaudhuri, B Allanach, S Bhattacharyya, D Choudhury, SP Das, A Datta, M Guchait, S Kraml, G Majumdar, D Miller, M Mühlleitner, N Okada, M Perelstein, SK Rai, SD Rindani, DP Roy, K Sridhar, R Vaidya et al.
– Pramana - Journal of Physics
(2006)
67,
617
(doi: 10.1007/s12043-006-0057-2)
Low-energy supersymmetry breaking from string flux compactifications: Benchmark scenarios
BC Allanach, F Quevedo, K Suruliz
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2006)
2006,
040
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/04/040)
Naturalness priors and fits to the constrained minimal supersymmetric Standard Model
BC Allanach
– Physics Letters B
(2006)
635,
123
(doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.02.052)
Les Houches "Physics at TeV Colliders 2005'' Beyond the Standard Model working group: summary report
BC Allanach, C Grojean, P Skands, E Accomando, G Azuelos, H Baer, C Balazs, G Belanger, K Benakli, F Boudjema, B Brelier, V Bunichev, G Cacciapaglia, M Carena, D Choudhury, P-A Delsart, UD Sanctis, K Desch, BA Dobrescu, L Dudko et al.
(2006)
(link to publication)
Supersymmetry parameter analysis: SPA convention and project
JA Aguilar-Saavedra, A Ali, BC Allanach, R Arnowitt, HA Baer, JA Bagger, C Balazs, V Barger, M Barnett, A Bartl, M Battaglia, P Bechtle, G Belanger, A Belyaev, EL Berger, G Blair, E Boos, M Carena, SY Choi, F Deppisch et al.
– The European Physical Journal C
(2006)
46,
43
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s2005-02460-1)
Multidimensional mSUGRA likelihood maps
BC Allanach, CG Lester
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2006)
73,
015013
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.73.015013)
Physics interplay of the LHC and the ILC
G Weiglein, T Barklow, E Boos, A De Roeck, K Desch, F Gianotti, R Godbole, JF Gunion, HE Haber, S Heinemeyer, JL Hewett, K Kawagoe, K Monig, MM Nojiri, G Polesello, F Richard, S Riemann, WJ Stirling, AG Akeroyd, BC Allanach et al.
– Physics Reports
(2006)
426,
47
(doi: 10.1016/j.physrep.2005.12.003)
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Email

B.C.Allanach@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

B2.04

Telephone

01223 766889

Personal homepage

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

Study at Cambridge

About the University

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