Thesis offers
The group continuously offers topics for
Diploma Thesis and PhD thesis
on the ZEUS Experiment at HERA, DESY, on the CMS Experiment at the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and on the developement of
detectors, i.e. silicon detectors. Many of the topics are commonly
supervised with scientists from DESY or CERN. Current topics include:
- QCD, the physics of strong interactions. The focus here is on
the investigation of jet properties and rates at HERA with the aim to better
determine the gluon density in the proton and the strong coupling
constant alpha_s. This is going to be extended to jet measurements at
the LHC. Related to this is the investigation of the underlying event
at both HERA and the LHC.
R. Klanner,
P. Schleper,
Th. Schörner-Sadenius
- Physics beyond the Standard Model, i.e. Supersymmetry.
At HERA, SUSY processes with lepton number violation are searched
for. At LHC, the focus is on models with conserved R-parity and final
states including Gravitinos.
P. Schleper,
G. Steinbrück
- Closely related to the work on current detectors are the
development of new silicon materials able to stand the high
particle fluxes at the LHC by material engineering (doping).
G. Lindström
E. Fretwurst
- Design and development of new silicon sensors,
including measurements for example at the DESY testbeam, are done for
upgrades of the CMS pixel detector as well as for prototypes of new
monolithic pixel detectors for a future linear e+e- collider.
R. Klanner
G. Steinbrück
Feel invited to contact any of the persons listed above for
further information.