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Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group

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:

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

Interpreting a 1 fb-1 ATLAS search in the minimal anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking model
BC Allanach, TJ Khoo, K Sakurai
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
132
Discovery reach for generic supersymmetry at the LHC: MT2 versus missing transverse momentum selections for pMSSM searches
BC Allanach, AJ Barr, A Dafincab, C Gwenlanb
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
Computation of neutrino masses in R-parity violating supersymmetry: SOFTSUSY3.2
BC Allanach, CH Kom, M Hanussek
– Computer Physics Communications
(2011)
183,
785
LHC as a complementary probe to study 0νββ mechanisms
BC Allanach, CH Kom, H Pas
– Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
(2011)
217,
59
Discovery reach for generic supersymmetry at the LHC: M T2 versus missing transverse momentum selections for pMSSM searches
BC Allanach, AJ Barr, A Dafinca, C Gwenlan
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
104
Supersymmetric monojets at the Large Hadron Collider (vol 2011, 138, 2011)
BC Allanach, S Grab, HE Haber
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
87
The impact of the ATLAS zero-lepton, jets and missing momentum search on a CMSSM fit
BC Allanach, TJ Khoo, CG Lester, SL Williams
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
35
Impact of CMS Multi-jets and missing energy search on CMSSM fits
BC Allanach
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2011)
83,
095019
Supersymmetric monojets at the Large Hadron Collider
BC Allanach, S Grab, HE Haber
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
138
Supersymmetric monojets at the Large Hadron Collider
BC Allanach, S Grab, HE Haber
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Room

B2.04

Telephone

01223 766889