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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 /> Particles<br /> and<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

Global fits of third family hypercharge models to neutral current B-anomalies and electroweak precision observables
BC Allanach, JE Camargo-Molina, J Davighi
– European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
(2021)
81,
721
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09377-1)
Higgs-mass predictions in the MSSM and beyond
P Slavich, S Heinemeyer, E Bagnaschi, H Bahl, M Goodsell, HE Haber, T Hahn, R Harlander, W Hollik, G Lee, M Mühlleitner, S Paßehr, H Rzehak, D Stöckinger, A Voigt, CEM Wagner, G Weiglein, BC Allanach, T Biekötter, S Borowka, J Braathen, M Carena, TN Dao, G Degrassi, F Domingo et al.
– European Physical Journal C
(2021)
81,
450
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09198-2)
$U(1)_{B_3-L_2}$ explanation of the neutral current $B-$anomalies
BC Allanach
– European Physical Journal C
(2021)
81,
56
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-08855-w)
Anomaly Cancellation with an Extra Gauge Boson
BC Allanach, B Gripaios, J Tooby-Smith
– Phys Rev Lett
(2020)
125,
161601
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.161601)
Reinterpretation of LHC results for new physics: Status and recommendations after run 2
W Abdallah, S AbdusSalam, A Ahmadov, A Ahriche, G Alguero, BC Allanach, JY Araz, A Arbey, C Arina, P Athron, E Bagnaschi, Y Bai, MJ Baker, C Balazs, D Barducci, P Bechtle, A Bharucha, A Buckley, J Butterworth, H Cai, C Campagnari, C Cesarotti, M Chrzaszcz, A Coccaro, E Conte et al.
– SciPost Physics
(2020)
9,
022
(doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.9.2.022)
Review of particle physics
PA Zyla, RM Barnett, J Beringer, O Dahl, DA Dwyer, DE Groom, CJ Lin, KS Lugovsky, E Pianori, DJ Robinson, CG Wohl, WM Yao, K Agashe, G Aielli, BC Allanach, C Amsler, M Antonelli, EC Aschenauer, DM Asner, H Baer, S Banerjee, L Baudis, CW Bauer, JJ Beatty, VI Belousov et al.
– Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
(2020)
2020,
1
(doi: 10.1093/ptep/ptaa104)
Geometric general solution to the U(1) anomaly equations
BC Allanach, B Gripaios, J Tooby-Smith
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2020)
2020,
65
(doi: 10.1007/jhep05(2020)065)
Next-to-Minimal SOFTSUSY (vol 185, pg 2322, 2014)
BC Allanach, P Athron, LC Tunstall, A Voigt, AG Williams
– Computer Physics Communications
(2020)
250,
107044
(doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2019.107044)
Solving local anomaly equations in gauge-rank extensions of the standard model
BC Allanach, B Gripaios, J Tooby-Smith
– Physical Review D
(2020)
101,
075015
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.075015)
Sensitivity of future hadron colliders to leptoquark pair production in the di-muon di-jets channel
BC Allanach, T Corbett, M Madigan
– European Physical Journal C
(2020)
80,
170
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7722-3)
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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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