Career
- 2022-2023 Scientific Associate, CERN (on sabbatical leave from Cambridge)
- 2014-date Principal Investigator on Cambridge STFC High Energy Physics theory consolidated grant
- 2011-date Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2009-2010 Reader, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2004-2008 Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 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.
Ben is a particle phenomenologist and is primarily interested in interpreting data coming from the CERN experiments in terms of new particles and forces. He retains an interest in neutrino physics.
Teaching
Part III (Master's course), lecture notes and accompanying youtube lectures:
Ph.D. Students
- Eetu Loisa: 2021-
- Hannah Banks: 2019-
- 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
The Rumble in the Meson: a leptoquark versus a Z′ to fit b → sμ+μ− anomalies including 2022 LHCb $ {R}_{K^{\left(\ast \right)}} $ measurements
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2023)
2023,
33
(doi: 10.1007/jhep04(2023)033)
Flavonstrahlung in the B 3 − L 2 Z ′ model at current and future colliders
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2023)
2023,
253
(doi: 10.1007/jhep03(2023)253)
Flavonstrahlung in the $B_3-L_2$ $Z'$ Model at Current and Future
Colliders
(2022)
The Rumble in the Meson: a leptoquark versus a $Z^\prime$ to fit $b
\rightarrow s μ^+ μ^-$ anomalies including 2022 LHCb $R_{K^{(\ast)}}$
measurements
(2022)
Semisimple extensions of the Standard Model gauge algebra
– Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2022)
104,
035035
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.035035)
$M_W$ helps select $Z^\prime $ models for $b\rightarrow s \ell \ell $ anomalies
– The European Physical Journal C
(2022)
82,
745
Review of Particle Physics
– Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
(2022)
2022,
ARTN 083C01
(doi: 10.1093/ptep/ptac097)
$M_W$ helps select $Z^\prime$ models for $b \rightarrow s \ell \ell$
anomalies
(2022)
Simple and statistically sound recommendations for analysing physical theories.
– Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain)
(2022)
85,
052201
(doi: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac60ac)
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