Ben Allanach

I'm a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge, in the Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group. To find out the kind of research I used to do, watch my TEDx talk (movie).
These days, I work mostly on collider searches for new physics with other members of the Cambridge Supersymmetry Working Group, especially at the Large Hadron Collider.

Beyond the Standard Model phenomenology. I am interested in Large Hadron Collider signals of new physics, b physics anomalies and searches at a Future Circular Collider, interpreting data and calculating the supersymmetric spectrum. I retain an interest in neutrino masses and mixings.
Publications | any papers citing mine in the last week?
SOFTSUSY: a program for calculating supersymmetric spectra.
Conferences/schools this year:
- Talking at Precision Era in High Energy Physics, Slovenia, Potoroz Apr 2019
- Chairing part of Annual Xmas Theory Meeting 2018, Durham
- Talking at CKM 2018, Heidelberg, Germany
- (Re)interpreting the results of new physics searches at the LHC, CERN
- Speaking at 2nd FCC Physics Workshop, CERN
- Electroweak Rencontres de Moriond
- Talking at KUTs8, Paris
- Teaching at the CERN-JINR European School of High Energy Physics, Italy June 2018
For prospective PhD students
Advice and ground rules for (only my) PhD students
I am currently PI on our £1.7m STFC consolidated grant (1/10/17-30/9/20). You should quote "This work has been partially supported by STFC consolidated grant ST/P000681/1" in the acknowledgements of any publication if you are in our HEP group, or you are a long-term visitor (it pays for our computers, computer officer time and secretarial time).

18 Sep 2018: quoted in New Scientist article on 10th anniversary of the LHC
11 Jul 2018: Plus magazine interviews: What can we see? | What can science see? | What can we agree to look for?
1 Jul 2018: Plus magazine interviews on the limits of observation: video | articles
1 Jul 2018: interview for Plus article Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
29 Jun-2 Jul 2018: At Also Festival running a quantum physics life-drawing course with Art Macabre and co-hosting the Far Out: astrological dining experience
19 Jun 2018: Wrote Going nowhere fast Aeon magazine essay about the current state of Beyond the Standard Model physics
Apr 2018: Quantum Selves part of art exhibition at Burgh House, Hampstead, London
15 May 2018: "Quantum physics explorations in theory, charcoal and paint": talk at Clare Hall College, Cambridge
23 Mar 2018: Physics Beyond the Standard Model talk for Cambridge Philosophical Society meeting "What we don't know about the universe: from the very small to the very big"
17 Mar 2018: Wrote Guardian blog on The Fourth Colour
14 Mar 2018: BBC Radio 5 Live interview about Stephen Hawking's scientific legacy
3 Mar 2018: interviewed for lead article Truth before beauty: Our universe is uglier than we thought in New Scientist
10 Dec 2017: talked about the physics of Star Wars on Naked Scientists programme, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Nov 2017: Co-wrote a Guardian blog on anomalies in b decays

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