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Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group

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

Hadron collider sensitivity to fat flavourful Z′s for $ {R}_{K^{\left(\ast \right)}} $
BC Allanach, T Corbett, MJ Dolan, T You
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2019)
2019,
137
An anomaly-free atlas: charting the space of flavour-dependent gauged U(1) extensions of the Standard Model
BC Allanach, J Davighi, S Melville
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2019)
2019,
82
Beyond the standard model
BC Allanach
– CERN Yellow Reports: School Proceedings
(2019)
6,
113
Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC
XC Vidal, M D'Onofrio, PJ Fox, R Torre, KA Ulmer, A Aboubrahim, A Albert, J Alimena, BC Allanach, C Alpigiani, M Altakach, S Amoroso, JK Anders, JY Araz, A Arbey, P Azzi, I Babounikau, H Baer, MJ Baker, D Barducci et al.
(2018)
Opportunities in Flavour Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC
A Cerri, VV Gligorov, S Malvezzi, JM Camalich, J Zupan, S Akar, J Alimena, BC Allanach, W Altmannshofer, L Anderlini, F Archilli, P Azzi, S Banerjee, W Barter, AE Barton, M Bauer, I Belyaev, S Benson, M Bettler, R Bhattacharya et al.
(2018)
Third family hypercharge model for $ {R}_{K^{\left(\ast \right)}} $ and aspects of the fermion mass problem
BC Allanach, J Davighi
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2018)
2018,
75
Uncertainties in the Lightest $CP$ Even Higgs Boson Mass Prediction in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model: Fixed Order Versus Effective Field Theory Prediction
BC Allanach, A Voigt
– European Physical Journal C
(2018)
78,
573
The case for future hadron colliders from B → K(*)μ+μ− decays
BC Allanach, B Gripaios, T You
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2018)
2018,
21
The inclusion of two-loop SUSYQCD corrections to gluino and squark pole masses in the minimal and next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model: SOFTSUSY3.7
BC Allanach, SP Martin, DG Robertson, R Ruiz de Austri
– Computer Physics Communications
(2017)
219,
339
Dissecting Multi-Photon Resonances at the Large Hadron Collider
BC Allanach, D Bhatia, AM Iyer
– The European Physical Journal C
(2017)
77,
595
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Room

B2.04

Telephone

01223 766889