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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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
  • 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

Large hadron collider constraints on some simple $Z^\prime $ models for $b\rightarrow s \mu ^+\mu ^-$ anomalies
BC Allanach, JM Butterworth, T Corbett
– European Physical Journal C
(2021)
81,
1126
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09919-7)
Semisimple extensions of the Standard Model gauge algebra
BC Allanach, B Gripaios, J Tooby-Smith
– Physical Review D
(2021)
104,
035035
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.035035)
Global fits of third family hypercharge models to neutral current B-anomalies and electroweak precision observables
BC Allanach, JE Camargo-Molina, J Davighi
– The European Physical Journal C
(2021)
81,
721
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09377-1)
Higgs-mass predictions in the MSSM and beyond
P Slavich, S Heinemeyer, E Bagnaschi, H Bahl, M Goodsell, HE Haber, T Hahn, R Harlander, W Hollik, G Lee, M Mühlleitner, S Paßehr, H Rzehak, D Stöckinger, A Voigt, CEM Wagner, G Weiglein, BC Allanach, T Biekötter, S Borowka, J Braathen, M Carena, TN Dao, G Degrassi, F Domingo, P Drechsel, U Ellwanger, M Gabelmann, R Gröber, J Klappert, T Kwasnitza, D Meuser, L Mihaila, N Murphy, K Nickel, W Porod, EAR Rojas, I Sobolev, F Staub
– European Physical Journal C
(2021)
81,
450
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09198-2)
$U(1)_{B_3-L_2}$ Explanation of the Neutral Current $B-$Anomalies
BC Allanach
– European Physical Journal C
(2021)
81,
56
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-08855-w)
Anomaly Cancellation with an Extra Gauge Boson
BC Allanach, B Gripaios, J Tooby-Smith
– Physical Review Letters
(2020)
125,
161601
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.161601)
Reinterpretation of LHC Results for New Physics: Status and recommendations after Run 2
W Abdallah, S AbdusSalam, A Ahmadov, A Ahriche, G Alguero, BC Allanach, JY Araz, A Arbey, C Arina, P Athron, E Bagnaschi, Y Bai, MJ Baker, C Balazs, D Barducci, P Bechtle, A Bharucha, A Buckley, J Butterworth, H Cai, C Campagnari, C Cesarotti, M Chrzaszcz, A Coccaro, E Conte, JM Cornell, LD Corpe, M Danninger, L Darmé, A Deandrea, N Desai, B Dillon, C Doglioni, MJ Dolan, J Dutta, JR Ellis, S Ellis, M Feickert, N Fernandez, S Fichet, T Flacke, B Fuks, A Geiser, MH Genest, A Ghalsasi, T Gonzalo, M Goodsell, S Gori, P Gras, A Greljo, D Guadagnoli, S Heinemeyer, LA Heinrich, J Heisig, DK Hong, T Hryn'ova, K Huitu, P Ilten, A Ismail, A Jueid, F Kahlhoefer, J Kalinowski, JF Kamenik, D Kar, Y Kats, CK Khosa, V Khoze, T Klingl, P Ko, K Kong, W Kotlarski, M Krämer, S Kraml, S Kulkarni, A Kvellestad, C Lange, K Lassila-Perini, SJ Lee, A Lessa, Z Liu, LL Iglesias, JM Lorenz, D MacDonell, F Mahmoudi, J Mamuzic, AC Marini, P Markowitz, PMR del Arbol, D Miller, VA Mitsou, S Moretti, M Nardecchia, S Neshatpour, DT Nhung, P Osland, PH Owen, O Panella, A Pankov, M Park, W Porod
– SciPost Phys
(2020)
9,
1
(doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.9.2.022)
Review of particle physics
PA Zyla, RM Barnett, J Beringer, O Dahl, DA Dwyer, DE Groom, CJ Lin, KS Lugovsky, E Pianori, DJ Robinson, CG Wohl, WM Yao, K Agashe, G Aielli, BC Allanach, C Amsler, M Antonelli, EC Aschenauer, DM Asner, H Baer, S Banerjee, L Baudis, CW Bauer, JJ Beatty, VI Belousov, S Bethke, A Bettini, O Biebel, KM Black, E Blucher, O Buchmuller, V Burkert, MA Bychkov, RN Cahn, M Carena, A Ceccucci, A Cerri, D Chakraborty, R Sekhar Chivukula, G Cowan, G D'Ambrosio, T Damour, D de Florian, A de Gouvêa, T DeGrand, P de Jong, G Dissertori, BA Dobrescu, M D'Onofrio, M Doser, M Drees, HK Dreiner, P Eerola, U Egede, S Eidelman, J Ellis, J Erler, VV Ezhela, W Fetscher, BD Fields, B Foster, A Freitas, H Gallagher, L Garren, HJ Gerber, G Gerbier, T Gershon, Y Gershtein, T Gherghetta, AA Godizov, MC Gonzalez-Garcia, M Goodman, C Grab, AV Gritsan, C Grojean, M Grünewald, A Gurtu, T Gutsche, HE Haber, C Hanhart, S Hashimoto, Y Hayato, A Hebecker, S Heinemeyer, B Heltsley, JJ Hernández-Rey, K Hikasa, J Hisano, A Höcker, J Holder, A Holtkamp, J Huston, T Hyodo, KF Johnson, M Kado, M Karliner, UF Katz, M Kenzie, VA Khoze, SR Klein
– Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
(2020)
2020,
1
(doi: 10.1093/ptep/ptaa104)
Geometric general solution to the U(1) anomaly equations
BC Allanach, B Gripaios, J Tooby-Smith
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2020)
2020,
65
(doi: 10.1007/jhep05(2020)065)
Corrigendum to “Next-to-Minimal SOFTSUSY” [Comput. Phys. Comm. 185 (2014) 2322–2339](S0010465514001386)(10.1016/j.cpc.2014.04.015)
BC Allanach, P Athron, LC Tunstall, A Voigt, AG Williams
– Computer Physics Communications
(2020)
250,
107044
(doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2019.107044)
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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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