Benno List

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I am a senior scientist in the IPP (Information Management, Projects, Processes) group at DESY.

Since 2011, when I joined IPP, I have been responsible for the Technical Design Documentation of the International Linear Collider (ILC). I have contributed to the Design Integration of the ILC and the editing of the Technical Design Report, and now I work as cost engineer and Change Administrator.

I coordinate the CAD services of IPP, which encompass the provision and support of CAD software (predominantly I-DEAS and Solid Edge) for more than 400 users at DESY, and consulting and participation in projects, for instance CAD data quality assurance and integration for the European X-FEL.

As member of the IPP team, I support and advise large scientific projects in matters of data management, including application of project management and system engineering methods. Currently, we work for the European X-FEL, FLASH Forward, and support the ALPS II project and the DESY groups working on the CTA observatory.

I have been a member of the H1 collaboration since 1992, where I got my PhD in 1997 working on the Forward Proton Spectrometer (FPS). From 1998 to 2000 I was a CERN fellow and worked in W decays to charm quarks in the OPAL collaboration. From 2001 to 2006 I was employed by the ETH Zurich and was in charge of the H1 Central Silicon Tracker (CST). Later I was co-convenor of the Heavy Flavour Working Group, working for the University of Hamburg, where I also gave lectures on Detectors in high-energy physics and Higgs and electroweak interactions.

I am interested in the application of statistical methods and have contributed the chapter on constrained fitting to a text book on Data Analysis in High Energy Physics, and have acted as reviewer for papers on statistical methods for international journals such as Nuclear Instruments and Methods A and European Physics Journal C.

Imprint

Important Publications and Theses

B. List, L. Hagge, J. Kreutzkamp and N. Walker: Engineering Data Management for the ILC Site Specific Design Phase,
Proceedings, 5th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2014): Dresden, Germany, June 16-20, 2014, 1839-1841 (TUPRI116).
B. List, L. Hagge, J. Kreutzkamp and N. Walker: Design Integration at the International Linear Collider,
Proceedings, 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2013): Shanghai, China, May 12-17, 2013, 1559-1561 (TUPME002).
C. Adolphsen et al. (eds.): The International Linear Collider Technical Design Report - Volume 3.I: Accelerator & in the Technical Design Phase,
arXiv:1306.6353 [physics.acc-ph].
C. Adolphsen et al. (eds.): The International Linear Collider Technical Design Report - Volume 3.II: Accelerator Baseline Design,
arXiv:1306.6328 [physics.acc-ph].
B. List: Possible Staging Scenarios for the ILC,
In: Helmholtz Alliance Linear Collider Forum: Proceedings of the Workshops Hamburg, Munich, Hamburg 2010-2012, Germany, DESY-12-123H (2012) 25-36.
L. Hagge, B. List, S. Suehl, N.J. Walker and N. Welle: Design Integration and Vision Sharing for the ILC,
Proceedings, 3rd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2012), 20-25 May 2012. New Orleans, LA, 1837-1839 (TUPPR013).
S. Eucker, L. Hagge, B. List, N.J. Walker, N. Welle: Organizing the ILC Technical Design Documentation,
Proceedings, 2nd International Particle Accelerator Conference: IPAC 2011, 4-9 Sep 2011, San Sebastian, Spain, 1656-1658 (TUPS055)
S. Eucker, L. Hagge, B. List, S. Suehl, N. Welle: Synchronizing GEANT and 3D CAD - A Collaborative Engineering Study at ILD,
Proceedings, 2nd International Particle Accelerator Conference: IPAC 2011, 4-9 Sep 2011, San Sebastian, Spain, 1659-1661 (TUPS056)
B. List: Decomposition of a covariance matrix into uncorrelated and correlated errors,
Proceedings Alliance Workshop on Unfolding and Data Correction, 27-28 May 2010, DESY, Hamburg, Germany. file
M. Beckmann, B. List and J. List: Treatment of Photon Radiation in Kinematic Fits at Future e+ e- Colliders,
Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 624 (2010) 184-191, arXiv:1006.0436 [hep-ex]
"Decomposition of a covariance matrix into uncorrelated and correlated errors".
Transparencies, Writeup.
B. List: The Pomeron trajectory based on elastic rho photoproduction,
arXiv:0906.4945 [hep-ex] Contribution to the XVII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects DIS 2009, Madrid, Spain, 26.-30.4.2009
B. List: MarlinKinfit: An Object--Oriented Kinematic Fitting Package
LC-TOOL-2009-001.
J. List, B. List: Self-filling histograms: an object oriented analysis framework"
contributed paper to the Conference on Computing in High-Energy Physics CHEP 2004, Interlaken, 27th September - 1st October 2004.
T. Behnke, J. Böhme, B. List, S. Schmitt: A new analysis for the transverse polarimeter at HERA-II,
contributed paper 120 to the European Physical Society International Conference on High Energy Physics, July 17-23, 2003, Aachen, Germany.
B. List: The H1 central silicon tracker,"
Nucl. Instr. Meth. A501 (2003) 49-53.
P. van Esch et al.: "The H1 forward proton spectrometer," Nucl. Instr. Meth. A446 (1999) 409-425. [hep-ex/0001046].
OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al.: "A measurement of the rate of charm production in W decays," Phys. Lett. B490 (2000) 71-86. [hep-ex/0009020].
H1 Collaboration, C. Adloff et al.: "Measurement of leading proton and neutron production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA," Eur. Phys. J. C6 (1999) 587-602. [hep-ex/9811013].
PhD thesis: (complete gzipped ps [2.2MB], abstract in german and english):
"Tiefunelastische ep-Streuung bei HERA unter Nachweis eines vorwärts gestreuten Protons",
PhD thesis University of Hamburg 1997.
Diploma thesis: (gzipped ps-file with lots of scanned images [2.6MB]): "Diffraktive J/ψ-Produktion in Elektron-Proton-Stössen am Speicherring HERA",
Diploma thesis Technical University of Berlin 1993, unpublished.
A list of all my publications from SPIRES

Unpublished Reports

G. Dugan, M. Harrison, B. List, N. Walker, Implications of an Energy-Phased approach to the realization of the ILC,
2014, EDMS ID D00000001046475.
B. List, M. Harrison, N. Walker, Change Management for the ILC,
2014, EDMS ID D00000001057375.
B. List, Harmonic Number for the ILC Damping Rings, 2011, EDMS ID D00000000960865.

More Conference Contributions

Photon 95, Sheffield, UK, 1995:
"First measurement of the deep-inelastic structure of proton diffraction" (representing the H1 collaboration).
Proceedings: in D.J. Miller, S.L. Cartwright, V. Khoze (eds): PHOTON '95: proceedings. Singapore, Singapore, World Scientific, 1995, 307-312 (Spires entry).
DIS97, Chicago, IL, 1997:
Transparencies (gzipped ps [159kB]): "DIS with leading protons in the forward proton spectrometer of H1 at HERA" (representing the H1 collaboration)
Proceedings (gzipped ps [41kB], AIP server): B. List: "Observation of deep inelastic ep scattering with a leading proton," in: J. Repond, D. Krakauer (eds): "Deep inelastic scattering and QCD, 5th internaional workshop, Chicago, IL, April 1997," Woodbury, NY (AIP Conference proceedings 407) 1997, p. 520-522 (AIP server).
Workshop on low x physics, Madrid 1997:
Transparencies (gzipped ps [800kB]): "DIS with leading baryons at ZEUS and H1 at HERA" (representing the ZEUS and H1 collaborations)
Proceedings (gzipped ps [189kB]): B. List: "Deep inelastic scattering with leading baryons at HERA," in: F. Barreiro, L. Labarga, J. del Peso (eds): "Low x physics. Proceedings of the Madrid workshop, Madrid, Spain, 18-21 June 1997," Singapore (World Scientific) 1998, p. 202-207.
Workshop Monte Carlo generators for HERA physics 1998-1999:
B. List, A. Mastroberardino: "DIFFVM - A Monte Carlo generator for diffractive processes in ep scattering," in: A.T. Doyle, G. Grindhammer, G. Ingelman, H. Jung (eds): "Monte Carlo generators for HERA physics, proceedings of the workshop 1998-1999," Hamburg (DESY) DESY-PROC-1999-02, p. 396-404.
Proceedings (gzipped ps [160kB])
PHOTON2000, Ambleside, UK, 2000:
Transparencies (gzipped ps [970kB]): "Hadronic final states in diffractive ep scattering" (representing the ZEUS and H1 collaborations)
Proceedings (gzipped ps [210kB], AIP server): B. List: "Jet production in diffractive ep scattering," in: A. J. Fimch (ed): "Proceedings PHOTON 2000," AIP (AIP conference proceedings 571), 2001. 492p. (AIP server)
VERTEX 2001, Brunnen, Switzerland, 2001:
Transparencies (pdf [10.6MB]): "The H1 central silicon tracker, performance and upgrade"
Proceedings (gzipped ps [600kB]): B. List: "The H1 central silicon tracker," Proceedings: Nucl. Instr. Meth. A501 (2003) 49-53.
DESY PRC 10/02:
"H1: Status and Prospects."
Transparencies (pdf [1.0MB], StarImpress 5.2 [1.6MB], M$ Powerpoint [1.4MB])
DIS 2003, St. Petersburg, Russia 2003:
"Heavy flavour physics at HERA-II" (invited talk).
Transparencies (pdf [1.9MB], StarImpress 5.2 [1.1MB])
EPS-HEP 2003, Aachen, Germany 2003:
"Measurements of meson production in ep scattering at H1".
Transparencies (pdf [4.4MB])
Vertex 2003, Low Wood, Cumbria, UK 2003:
"The H1 silicon tracker".
Transparencies (pdf [1.9MB], StarImpress [1.7MB]) Proceedings: Nucl. Instr. Meth. A549 (2005) 33-36
8th ICATPP Conference, Villa Erba, Como 6-10 October 2003:
"The H1 silicon tracker".
Transparencies (pdf [990kB])
DPG Frühjahrstagung 2004, Mainz, 29.3.-1.4.2004:
"HERA - ein Labor für die QCD" (Hauptvortrag).
Transparencies (pdf [2.9MB], Power point [3.9MB])
BEAUTY 2005, Assisi, 20.-24.6.2005
"Heavy Flavour Production in DIS at HERA".
Transparencies (pdf [1.7MB])
Workshop on Tracking in High-Multiplicity Environments TIME05, Zurich, Switzerland, 3.-7.10.2005
"The H1 silicon tracker".
Transparencies (pdf [1.3MB]), Proceedings: Nucl. Instr. Meth. A566 (2006) 110-113
XLI Rencentres de Moriond on QCD 2006, La Thuile 18.-25.3.2006
"Heavy Flavour Production at HERA".
Transparencies (pdf [2.2MB]), Proceedings: arXiv:hep-ex/0605089v1
Sino-German Workshop on Frontiers in QCD, Hamburg, DESY, 10.-23.9.2006
"Structure Function Measurements at HERA".
Transparencies (pdf [2.8MB])
XV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering DIS2007, Munich, Germany, 16.-20.4.07
"Heavy Flavour Working Group Summary, Experimental Part".
Transparencies (pdf [4.3MB])
Writeup: Michael Klasen, Benno List, Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer, Rainer Mankel: "Summary of the Heavy Flavor Working Group", arXiv:0707.3907v1 [hep-ph] ( from Publisher)
34th International Conference on High Energy Physics ICHEP08, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 30.7.-5.8.2008
"Beauty and Charm Photoproduction".
Transparencies (pdf)
Writeup: arXiv:0809.5176 [hep-ph].
XVII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects DIS 2009, Madrid, Spain, 26.-30.4.2009
"The Pomeron trajectory based on elastic rho photoproduction".
Transparencies (pdf)
Writeup: arXiv:0906.4945 [hep-ex]
"Beauty photoproduction through decays to muons and jets".
Transparencies (pdf)
Writeup: arXiv:0906.5435 [hep-ex]
Alliance Workshop on Unfolding and Data Correction, 27-28 May 2010, DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
"Decomposition of a covariance matrix into uncorrelated and correlated errors".
Transparencies, Writeup.
1st International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2012), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, 10.-16.6.2012.
"The International Linear Collider".
Writeup: EPJ Web Conf. 70 (2014) 00062.
6th Annual Workshop of the Helmholtz Alliance "Physics at the Terascale", 3.-5.12.2012, Hamburg, Germany.
"ILC Machine: Scenarios for a Higgs Factory."
Transparencies, Writeup: DESY-12-123H (2012) 25-36.
IVICFA Easter Physics Workshop 2013, 25.-26.3.2013, Madrid, Spain.
"The ILC Project."
Transparencies.
5th Bethe Center Workshop: LHC Run1 Aftermath - Where Theory Meets Experiment, 30.9.-3.10.2013, Bad Honnef, Germany.
"ILC: Status and Plans."
Transparencies
XVII Roma Tre Topical Seminar on Subnuclear Physics: The Higgs potential and physics at future colliders, Rome, Italy, 10.12.2014.
"The International Linear Collider". Transparencies.

Software

Self-Filling Histograms

Together with Jenny List, I have written a RooT-based analysis toolkit called "Self-filling histograms" (SFH). Documentation in HTML and Postscript is available.
An interface to the Marseille analysis framework Marana, called SFHMarana, is also available and documented in in HTML and Postscript.

Kinematic Fitting

Together with Jenny Böhme, I am developing an object-oriented kinematic fitting framework called KINFIT. Documentation in HTML and Postscript is available.

OPAL Technical Notes

J. Böhme, B. List: "Implementation of the Higgsstrahlung Matrix Element." OPAL technical note TN607, unpublished.
B. List: "A Simple Figure of Merit for Searches." OPAL technical note TN619, unpublished.
C. Rembser, B. List: "Description of Selection Efficiencies in Searches for Heavy Particles with Finite Lifetime." OPAL technical note TN643, unpublished.

Unpublished Notes on Statistical Topics

"Bincenter corrections, acceptance, and all that" gzipped postscript [23kB]
"Statistical error from weighted events" gzipped postscript [58kB]
"Some issues about the reweighting events" gzipped postscript [87kB]
"When and why to optimize efficiency times purity" gzipped postscript [90kB]
"Writing official H1SIM and H1REC code: A how-to approach" gzipped postscript [51kB]

DIFFVM

I am the author of diffVM, a Monte Carlo generator for diffractive processes in ep collisions based on the VDM.

Last update: 2015 B. List