Choice of PhD and Diploma Theses

The following list of topics is not exclusive. If you are interested in other topics please contact us.

Theses at ATLAS

Poster ( in German) "Diplom- und Doktorarbeiten am ATLAS-Experiment"

Analysis of LHC data. Contacts: V. Buescher, F. Fiedler, M. Hohlfeld, H.G. Sander, S. Tapprogge

Development of high-speed electronics for the trigger upgrade. Contacts: V. Buescher, U. Schaefer, S. Tapprogge

Thesis at DØ

 Search for the Higgs Boson. Contacts: V.Buescher  M. Hohlfeld

Theses at NA62

Contacts: V. Buescher, R. Wanke

Design and Construction of the NA62 Muon Veto Detector.

• Detailed simulation of pion and muon showers in the muon veto detector and determination of its pion-muon separation power.
• Construction of the NA62 muon veto detector.
• Development of the read-out electronics of the NA62 muon veto detector.

Development of the NA62 Online PC Farm.

Physics analysis with the NA62 experiment using already recorded data.

• Measurement of the very rare decay K⁺ -> e⁺ νγ
• Measurement of the CKM matrix element V_us with K⁺ -> π⁰ e⁺ ν events.

Theses at IceCube

Data acquisition, data quality monitoring and grid computing. Contact: L. Koepke

Particle, astroparticle, atmospheric, and geo physics with high energy terrestrial muons and neutrinos. Contact: L. Koepke

Searches for high energy neutrinos from cosmic accelerators and low energy neutrinos from supernovae. Contact: L. Koepke