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ILC-Research: Emmy-Noether-Fellowship for Dr. Jenny List
Physicist Dr. Jenny List has recently received one of the sought-after Emmy-Noether-Fellowships of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). With the subsidies granted for 5 years, she will establish a project group at DESY that will study, among other things, the possibilities to detect dark matter at the International Linear Collider ILC. The Emmy-Noether-Fellowship gives the opportunity to outstanding scientists like Jenny List to qualify for professorship within a short time as a selfdependent head of a team of junior scientists.
Research for the ILC at DESY offers excellent perspectives: the planned linear collider opens possibilities to discover the particles that might be the components of dark matter - the so called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles). In this case - like in many other measurements planned at the ILC - the polarization of the electron and positron beam will play a decisive role. Dr. Jenny List and her team want to specify the accelerator and detector requirements for the best possible verification of WIMPs and to develop a prototype of a Compton Polarimeter that will measure the beam polarization with a precision that could not be reached so far.