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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

Combined fits to the supersymmetric explanation of anomalous lepton-γ-missing ET events
BC Allanach, K Sridhar
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2003)
551,
343
(doi: 10.1016/s0370-2693(02)03049-6)
Working group report: Beyond the standard model
B Mukhopadhyaya, S Raychaudhuri, K Agashe, B Allanach, D Bailin, B Brahmachari, U Chattopadhyay, D Choudhury, P Das, A Datta, A Datta, A Djouadi, A Giri, K Huitu, A Kundu, U Mahanta, S Moretti, JC Pati, AK Ray, A Raychaudhuri et al.
– Pramana - Journal of Physics
(2003)
60,
395
(doi: 10.1007/bf02706419)
Measuring supersymmetry at the large hadron collider
BC Allanach
– Pramana - Journal of Physics
(2003)
60,
239
(doi: 10.1007/bf02706407)
Working group report: Collider and B physics
A Datta, K Sridhar, K Abe, K Agashe, R Aleksan, BC Allanach, S Chakraborti, D Choudhury, AK Datta, A Datta, A Djouadi, D Ghosh, RM Godbole, M Guchait, K Huitu, P Konar, A Kundu, S Moretti, B Mukhopadhyaya, DP Roy
– Pramana - Journal of Physics
(2003)
60,
383
(doi: 10.1007/bf02706418)
Exploring Small Extra Dimensions at the Large Hadron Collider
BC Allanach, K Odagiri, MJ Palmer, MA Parker, A Sabetfakhri, BR Webber
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2002)
2002,
793
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/12/039)
Exploring Small Extra Dimensions at the Large Hadron Collider
BC Allanach, K Odagiri, MJ Palmer, MA Parker, A Sabetfakhri, BR Webber
(2002)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0211205)
Discovering anomaly-mediated supersymmetry at the LHC
AJ Barr, BC Allanach, CG Lester, MA Parker, P Richardson
(2002)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0208214)
Discovering anomaly mediated supersymmetry at the LHC.
A Barr, CG Lester, MA Parker, BC Allanach, P Richardson
(2002)
Comparison of SUSY mass spectrum calculations
B Allanach, S Kraml, W Porod
(2002)
(link to publication)
Explaining the anomalous CDF μγ missing-ET events with supersymmetry -: art. no. 011801
BC Allanach, S Lola, K Sridhar
– Physical review letters
(2002)
89,
118011
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.89.011801)
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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

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