Biography
Ben Gripaios is Professor of Theoretical Physics in the Cavendish High Energy Theory Group. He received his D. Phil. from Oxford University in 2004 and previously held post-doctoral positions at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPF Lausanne), and Oxford University. He has also held positions as Visiting Professor at TU Munich (Germany), University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Japan).
Research
My early research focussed on the search for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN in Geneva and elsewhere. Much of that work was done in tandem with experimental particle physicists, devising methods to discover and measure the properties of new particles, such as the Higgs boson.
More recently I have turned my attention to more mathematical aspects of theoretical physics, using the latest developments in geometry and topology to further our understanding of quantum field theory. Much of this work is done in tandem with pure mathematicians.
Publications
The Ideas of Particle Physics James E. Dodd and Ben Gripaios, Cambridge (4th. Ed., 2020).
Smooth generalized symmetries of quantum field theories Ben Gripaios, Oscar Randal-Williams, and Joseph Tooby-Smith, Journal of Geometry and Physics (2024).
Floccinaucinihilipilification: Semisimple extensions of the Standard Model gauge algebra B. C. Allanach, Ben Gripaios, and Joseph Tooby-Smith, Physical Review D104, 035035 (2021).
Anomaly Cancellation with an Extra Gauge Boson B. C. Allanach, Ben Gripaios, and Joseph Tooby-Smith, Physical Review Letters 125, 161601 (2020).
For a full list, please see: Inspire
