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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Professor Benjamin Christopher Allanach

Career

  • 2022-2023 Scientific Associate, CERN (on sabbatical leave from Cambridge)
  • 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
  • 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. He retains an interest in neutrino physics.

Teaching

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-
  • 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

The Rumble in the Meson: a leptoquark versus a $Z^\prime$ to fit $b \rightarrow s μ^+ μ^-$ anomalies including 2022 LHCb $R_{K^{(\ast)}}$ measurements
B Allanach, J Davighi
(2022)
Semisimple extensions of the Standard Model gauge algebra
BC Allanach, B Gripaios, J Tooby-Smith
– Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2022)
104,
035035
(DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.035035)
$M_W$ helps select $Z^\prime $ models for $b\rightarrow s \ell \ell $ anomalies
B Allanach, J Davighi
– The European Physical Journal C
(2022)
82,
745
(DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10693-3)
Review of Particle Physics
RL Workman, VD Burkert, V Crede, E Klempt, U Thoma, L Tiator, K Agashe, G Aielli, BC Allanach, C Amsler, M Antonelli, EC Aschenauer, DM Asner, H Baer, S Banerjee, RM Barnett, L Baudis, CW Bauer, JJ Beatty, VI Belousov, J Beringer, A Bettini, O Biebel, KM Black, E Blucher, R Bonventre, VV Bryzgalov, O Buchmuller, MA Bychkov, RN Cahn, M Carena, A Ceccucci, A Cerri, RS Chivukula, G Cowan, K Cranmer, O Cremonesi, G D'Ambrosio, T Damour, D de Florian, A de Gouvea, T DeGrand, P de Jong, S Demers, BA Dobrescu, M D'Onofrio, M Doser, HK Dreiner, P Eerola, U Egede, S Eidelman, AX El-Khadra, J Ellis, SC Eno, J Erler, VV Ezhela, W Fetscher, BD Fields, A Freitas, H Gallagher, Y Gershtein, T Gherghetta, MC Gonzalez-Garcia, M Goodman, C Grab, AV Gritsan, C Grojean, DE Groom, M Grunewald, A Gurtu, T Gutsche, HE Haber, M Hamel, C Hanhart, S Hashimoto, Y Hayato, A Hebecker, S Heinemeyer, JJ Hernandez-Rey, K Hikasa, J Hisano, A Hocker, J Holder, L Hsu, J Huston, T Hyodo, A Ianni, M Kado, M Karliner, UF Katz, M Kenzie, VA Khoze, SR Klein, F Krauss, M Kreps, P Krizan, B Krusche, Y Kwon, O Lahav, J Laiho, LP Lellouch, J Lesgourgues, AR Liddle, Z Ligeti, C-J Lin, C Lippmann, TM Liss, L Littenberg, C Lourenco, KS Lugovsky, SB Lugovsky, A Lusiani, Y Makida, F Maltoni, T Mannel, AV Manohar, WJ Marciano, A Masoni, J Matthews, U-G Meissner, I-A Melzer-Pellmann, M Mikhasenko, DJ Miller, D Milstead, RE Mitchell, K Moenig, P Molaro, F Moortgat, M Moskovic, K Nakamura, M Narain, P Nason, S Navas, A Nelles, M Neubert, P Nevski, Y Nir, KA Olive, C Patrignani, JA Peacock, VA Petrov, E Pianori, A Pich, A Piepke, F Pietropaolo, A Pomarol, S Pordes, S Profumo, A Quadt, K Rabbertz, J Rademacker, G Raffelt, M Ramsey-Musolf, BN Ratcliff, P Richardson, A Ringwald, DJ Robinson, S Roesler, S Rolli, A Romaniouk, LJ Rosenberg, JL Rosner, G Rybka, MG Ryskin, RA Ryutin, Y Sakai, S Sarkar, F Sauli, O Schneider, S Schoenert, K Scholberg, AJ Schwartz, J Schwiening, D Scott, F Sefkow, U Seljak, V Sharma, SR Sharpe, V Shiltsev, G Signorelli, M Silari, F Simon, T Sjostrand, P Skands, T Skwarnicki, GF Smoot, A Soffer, MS Sozzi, S Spanier, C Spiering, A Stahl, SL Stone, Y Sumino, MJ Syphers, F Takahashi, M Tanabashi, J Tanaka, M Tasevsky, K Terao, K Terashi, J Terning, RS Thorne, M Titov, NP Tkachenko, DR Tovey, K Trabelsi, P Urquijo, G Valencia, R Van de Water, N Varelas, G Venanzoni, L Verde, I Vivarelli, P Vogel, W Vogelsang, V Vorobyev, SP Wakely, W Walkowiak, CW Walter, D Wands, DH Weinberg, EJ Weinberg, N Wermes, M White, LR Wiencke, S Willocq, CG Wohl, CL Woody, W-M Yao, M Yokoyama, R Yoshida, G Zanderighi, GP Zeller, OV Zenin, R-Y Zhu, S-L Zhu, F Zimmermann, PA Zyla, J Anderson, T Basaglia, P Schaffner, W Zheng
– Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
(2022)
2022,
ARTN 083C01
(DOI: 10.1093/ptep/ptac097)
$M_W$ helps select $Z^\prime$ models for $b \rightarrow s \ell \ell$ anomalies
B Allanach, J Davighi
(2022)
Simple and statistically sound recommendations for analysing physical theories
SS AbdusSalam, FJ Agocs, BC Allanach, P Athron, C Balázs, E Bagnaschi, P Bechtle, O Buchmueller, A Beniwal, J Bhom, S Bloor, T Bringmann, A Buckley, A Butter, JE Camargo-Molina, M Chrzaszcz, J Conrad, JM Cornell, M Danninger, J de Blas, A De Roeck, K Desch, M Dolan, H Dreiner, O Eberhardt, J Ellis, B Farmer, M Fedele, H Flächer, A Fowlie, TE Gonzalo, P Grace, M Hamer, W Handley, J Harz, S Heinemeyer, S Hoof, S Hotinli, P Jackson, F Kahlhoefer, K Kowalska, M Krämer, A Kvellestad, ML Martinez, F Mahmoudi, DM Santos, GD Martinez, S Mishima, K Olive, A Paul, MT Prim, W Porod, A Raklev, JJ Renk, C Rogan, L Roszkowski, R Ruiz de Austri, K Sakurai, A Scaffidi, P Scott, EM Sessolo, T Stefaniak, P Stöcker, W Su, S Trojanowski, R Trotta, Y-L Sming Tsai, J Van den Abeele, M Valli, AC Vincent, G Weiglein, M White, P Wienemann, L Wu, Y Zhang
– Reports on Progress in Physics
(2022)
85,
052201
(DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac60ac)
Hide and seek with the third family hypercharge model’s $Z^\prime $ at the large hadron collider
BC Allanach, H Banks
– European Physical Journal C
(2022)
82,
279
(DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10191-6)
A $ν$ Supersymmetric Anomaly-free Atlas
BC Allanach, M Madigan, J Tooby-Smith
– The Journal of High Energy Physics
(2022)
2022,
144
(DOI: 10.1007/jhep02(2022)144)
Large hadron collider constraints on some simple $Z^\prime $ models for $b\rightarrow s \mu ^+\mu ^-$ anomalies
BC Allanach, JM Butterworth, T Corbett
– European Physical Journal C
(2021)
81,
1126
(DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09919-7)
Semisimple extensions of the Standard Model gauge algebra
BC Allanach, B Gripaios, J Tooby-Smith
– Physical Review D
(2021)
104,
035035
(DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.104.035035)
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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

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