Career
- 2014-date Principal Investigator on Cambridge STFC High Energy Physics theory consolidated grant
- 2011-date Professor of Theoretical Physics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 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:
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
- 2019-date Author of The Review of Particle Physics
- 2018 Quantum Selves art exhibition, Burgh House and Hampstead Museum, London
- 2017 Consultant for Guerilla Science's Intergalactic Travel Bureau stage show
- 2013 TEDx talk, Budapest, Hungary
- 2012 Co-hosted CERN dinner at TEDGlobal event, Edinburgh
- 2005-2006 Scientific Secretary, CERN Council Strategy Group
Publications
Uncertainty in Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in Models With High Scale Supersymmetry Breaking and its Impact on Interpretations of Searches For Supersymmetric Particles
(2012)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3231)
R-parity violating supersymmetric explanation for the large t(t)over-bar forward-backward asymmetry
– Physical Review D
(2012)
86,
075016
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.075016)
Supersymmetry with prejudice: Fitting the wrong model to LHC data
– Physical Review D
(2012)
86,
055022
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.055022)
2-loop supersymmetric renormalization group equations including R-parity violation and aspects of unification (vol 60, 056002, 1999)
– Physical Review D
(2012)
86,
039906
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.039906)
A Large Hadron Electron Collider at CERNReport on the Physics and Design Concepts for Machine and Detector
– Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
(2012)
39,
075001
Hide and seek with natural supersymmetry at the LHC
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2012)
2012,
62
(doi: 10.1007/jhep05(2012)062)
Searches for new physics: Les Houches recommendations for the presentation of LHC results
– European Physical Journal C
(2012)
72,
1976
Les Houches 2011: Physics at TeV Colliders New Physics Working Group
Report
(2012)
Computation of neutrino masses in R-parity violating supersymmetry: SOFTSUSY3.2
– Computer Physics Communications
(2012)
183,
785
(doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.11.024)
Hide and Seek With Natural Supersymmetry at the LHC
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2012)
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2012)062)
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