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Professor Ben 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: 2019-2023
  • 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

Plan B: new Z′ models for b → sℓ+ℓ− anomalies
B Allanach, A Mullin
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2023)
2023,
173
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP09(2023)173)
Fits to measurements of rare heavy flavour decays
B Allanach
(2023)
(link to publication)
Plan B: New ${Z^\prime}$ models for $b\rightarrow sl^+l^-$ anomalies
B Allanach, A Mullin
(2023)
(link to publication)
The Rumble in the Meson: a leptoquark versus a Z′ to fit b → sμ+μ− anomalies including 2022 LHCb $ {R}_{K^{\left(\ast \right)}} $ measurements
B Allanach, J Davighi
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2023)
2023,
33
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP04(2023)033)
Flavonstrahlung in the B3 − L2 Z′ model at current and future colliders
B Allanach, E Loisa
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2023)
2023,
253
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP03(2023)253)
Flavonstrahlung in the $B_3-L_2$ $Z'$ Model at Current and Future Colliders
B Allanach, E Loisa
(2022)
(link to publication)
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)
(link to publication)
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, Particles and fields
(2022)
82,
745
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10693-3)
(link to publication)
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, SW 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 Gouvêa, 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 Grünewald, A Gurtu, T Gutsche, HE Haber, M Hamel, C Hanhart, S Hashimoto, Y Hayato, A Hebecker, S Heinemeyer, JJ Hernández-Rey, K Hikasa, J Hisano, A Höcker, 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 Križan, B Krusche, Y Kwon, O Lahav, J Laiho
– Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
(2022)
2022,
ARTN 083C01
(doi: 10.1093/ptep/ptac097)
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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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