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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,<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

Exploring Small Extra Dimensions at the Large Hadron Collider
BC Allanach, K Odagiri, MJ Palmer, MA Parker, A Sabetfakhri, BR Webber
(2002)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0211205)
Discovering anomaly-mediated supersymmetry at the LHC
AJ Barr, BC Allanach, CG Lester, MA Parker, P Richardson
(2002)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0208214)
Discovering anomaly mediated supersymmetry at the LHC.
A Barr, CG Lester, MA Parker, BC Allanach, P Richardson
(2002)
Comparison of SUSY mass spectrum calculations
B Allanach, S Kraml, W Porod
(2002)
(link to publication)
Explaining the anomalous CDF mu gamma missing-E-T events with supersymmetry
BC Allanach, S Lola, K Sridhar
– Physical review letters
(2002)
89,
011801
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.011801)
Selecting supersymmetric string scenarios from sparticle spectra
BC Allanach, D Grellscheid, F Quevedo
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2002)
6,
1151
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/05/048)
The Beyond the Standard Model Working Group: Summary Report
G Azuelos, J Gunion, J Hewett, G Landsberg, K Matchev, F Paige, T Rizzo, L Rurua, S Abdullin, A Albert, B Allanach, T Blazek, D Cavalli, F Charles, K Cheung, A Dedes, S Dimopoulos, H Dreiner, U Ellwanger, DS Gorbunov et al.
(2002)
(link to publication)
Investigation the supersymmetric explanation of anomalous CDF lepton(s) photon(s) missing-E-T
BC Allanach, S Lola, K Sridhar
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2002)
6,
21
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/04/002)
SOFTSUSY: A program for calculating supersymmetric spectra
BC Allanach
– Computer Physics Communications
(2002)
143,
305
(doi: 10.1016/S0010-4655(01)00460-X)
The snowmass points and slopes: Benchmarks for SUSY searches
BC Allanach, M Battaglia, GA Blair, M Carena, A De Roeck, A Dedes, A Djouadi, D Gerdes, N Ghodbane, J Gunion, HE Haber, T Han, S Heinemeyer, JL Hewett, I Hinchliffe, J Kalinowski, HE Logan, SP Martin, HU Martyn, KT Matchev et al.
– European Physical Journal C
(2002)
25,
113
(doi: 10.1007/s10052-002-0949-3)
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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

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