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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
  • 2025-date Professorial Fellow, Clare Hall
  • 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, Particles and Fields

Ph.D. Students

  • Eetu Loisa: 2021-2025
  • 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

Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 1 Physics, Experiments, Detectors
M Benedikt, F Zimmermann, B Auchmann, W Bartmann, JP Burnet, C Carli, A Chancé, P Craievich, M Giovannozzi, C Grojean, J Gutleber, K Hanke, A Henriques, P Janot, C Lourenço, M Mangano, T Otto, J Poole, S Rajagopalan, T Raubenheimer, E Todesco, L Ulrici, T Watson, G Wilkinson, P Azzi et al.
– The European Physical Journal C
(2025)
85,
1468
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15077-x)
Computation of FCC-ee sensitivity to heavy new physics with interactions of any flavor structure
B Allanach, E Loisa
– Physical Review D
(2025)
112,
075045
(doi: 10.1103/tnrg-x4xj)
Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 3 Civil Engineering, Implementation and Sustainability
M Benedikt, F Zimmermann, B Auchmann, W Bartmann, JP Burnet, C Carli, A Chancé, P Craievich, M Giovannozzi, C Grojean, J Gutleber, K Hanke, A Henriques, P Janot, C Lourenço, M Mangano, T Otto, J Poole, S Rajagopalan, T Raubenheimer, E Todesco, L Ulrici, T Watson, G Wilkinson, A Abada et al.
– The European Physical Journal Special Topics
(2025)
234,
5113
(doi: 10.1140/epjs/s11734-025-01958-5)
A B − anomaly motivated Z ′ boson at the energy and precision frontiers
B Allanach, C Englert, W Naskar
– Physics Letters B
(2025)
870,
139928
(doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139928)
Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 2, Accelerators, Technical Infrastructure and Safety
M Benedikt, F Zimmermann, B Auchmann, W Bartmann, JP Burnet, C Carli, A Chancé, P Craievich, M Giovannozzi, C Grojean, J Gutleber, K Hanke, A Henriques, P Janot, C Lourenço, M Mangano, T Otto, J Poole, S Rajagopalan, T Raubenheimer, E Todesco, L Ulrici, T Watson, G Wilkinson, A Abada et al.
(2025)
(link to publication)
Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 3, Civil Engineering, Implementation and Sustainability
M Benedikt, F Zimmermann, B Auchmann, W Bartmann, JP Burnet, C Carli, A Chancé, P Craievich, M Giovannozzi, C Grojean, J Gutleber, K Hanke, A Henriques, P Janot, C Lourenço, M Mangano, T Otto, J Poole, S Rajagopalan, T Raubenheimer, E Todesco, L Ulrici, T Watson, G Wilkinson, P Azzi et al.
(2025)
(link to publication)
Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 1, Physics, Experiments, Detectors
M Benedikt, F Zimmermann, B Auchmann, W Bartmann, JP Burnet, C Carli, A Chancé, P Craievich, M Giovannozzi, C Grojean, J Gutleber, K Hanke, A Henriques, P Janot, C Lourenço, M Mangano, T Otto, J Poole, S Rajagopalan, T Raubenheimer, E Todesco, L Ulrici, T Watson, G Wilkinson, P Azzi et al.
(2025)
(link to publication)
Constraints on the malaphoric $B_3-L_2$ model from di-lepton resonance searches at the LHC
B Allanach
– Eur Phys J C Part Fields
(2025)
85,
297
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14007-1)
Malaphoric $Z^\prime $ models for $b \rightarrow s \ell ^+ \ell ^-$ anomalies
B Allanach, N Gubernari
– The European Physical Journal C
(2025)
85,
190
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-13908-5)
Computation of FCC-ee Sensitivity to Heavy New Physics with Interactions of Any Flavor Structure
B Allanach, E Loisa
(2025)
(link to publication)
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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

Study at Cambridge

About the University

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