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01.04.2011
German Physical Society awarded dissertation prize
The German Physical Society (DPG) awarded this year’s dissertation prize of the divisions gravitation and theory of relativity, hadronic and nuclear physics, and particle physics, to Dr. Sebastian Klein.
On 30 March, at the occasion of the ceremonial meeting of the DPG Spring Conference held at Karlsruhe, the dissertation prize was presented to honour outstanding doctoral theses from the fields of gravitation research, hadronic or nuclear physics, and particle phyiscs. The prize winner was chosen from a group of candidates who presented their results of scientific research in a plenary session on the previous day. One of the two prize winners this year is Sebastian Klein. He was awarded for his dissertation on the calculation of three-loop QCD corrections for massive quark production in deep-inelastic scattering.
Sebastian Klein, born at Karlsruhe in 1980, studied physics at Konstanz and Potsdam Universities and obtained his diploma in the field of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. Later, he graduated - under the supervision of Professor Johannes Blümlein as well - at Technische Universität Dortmund. Both research activities were carried out at DESY. During his time as a PhD student, Sebastian Klein was supported with grants from the German National Academic Foundation and DESY.
The dissertation includes substantial contributions to the understanding of the proton’s quark and gluon substructure. This is important for precision measurments of the strong coupling constant αs, based on deep-inelastic world data. The exact knowledge of these quantities is a decisive prerequisite for all physical experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Currently, Sebastian Klein works as a postdoc at RWTH Aachen on the theoretical improvement of the precision prediction of top quark production at the LHC.
