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=== Projects for bachelor students in the Nikhef ATLAS group ===
 
  
date: January 2014
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= This is the old page for 2015 bachelor projects. For the newer bachelor projects click on the link below =
 
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https://wiki.nikhef.nl/education/Bachelor_Projects#ATLAS =
This is an overview with all available bachelor student projects in the Nikhef ATLAS group.  
 
 
 
 
 
If you have your own research proposal, need more detailed information on the (availability) of individual proposals or would like to discuss about other available projects in the group you are always welcome to contact either the contact person for the project and/or the Nikhef ATLAS group leaders:
 
 
 
Stan Bentvelsen  ___ [''' E-mail: stanb_at_nikhef.nl''', Tel 020-5925140, Nikhef room H250]
 
 
 
Paul de Jong    ______ [''' E-mail: h26_at_nikhef.nl''', Tel 020-5922087, Nikhef room H253]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
=== Bachelor projects in the Nikhef ATLAS group ===
 
 
 
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! style="background:#339999;" | <font color=#ffffff> 1) Top quark spin </font>
 
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''' Supervisors:'''  Marcel Vreeswijk, Stan Bentvelsen (staf) and Rogier van der Geer (PhD student)
 
 
 
 
 
''' Research description: '''
 
 
 
In dit project wordt de spin van het top-quark bestudeerd. Recentelijk is het top-quark is bij de
 
LHC waargenomen in botsingen tussen twee protonen, waarbij een enkel top-quark is geproduceerd
 
door fusie van een W-boson en een b-quark. Het top-quark is daarbij uiteen gevallen, via het
 
 
geschikt om de spin van de top-quark te achterhalen, via bepaling van een aantal hoeken in de
 
vervals-producten.
 
Voor deze analyse zijn verschillende methoden mogelijk, die ieder een eigen gevoeligheid hebben
 
voor de spin van het top-quark. Tijdens dit project zullen we de verschillende methoden
 
onderzoeken; waarbij de methoden zich onderscheiden door de hoeken vanuit verschillende Lorentz
 
systemen te bekijken.
 
Tijdens dit project zul je je eigen reconstructie van de botsingen maken, om daarmee te
 
achterhalen hoe daarop het beste de spin-richting van het top-quark kan worden bepaald. Dit kan
 
vervolgens met de ATLAS data worden vergeleken, indien de tijd dat toestaat.
 
 
 
 
 
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! style="background:#339999;" | <font color=#ffffff> 2) Accurate measurement of the mass of the Higgs particle </font>
 
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''' Supervisors:'''  Ivo van Vulpen (staf) and Antonio Castelli (PhD student)
 
 
 
 
 
''' Research description: '''
 
 
 
The ATLAS detector allows to measure the mass of the
 
Higgs boson, recently discovered in 2012.
 
This measurement is a crucial test for the validity of the
 
Standard Model, the theory that describes the interaction
 
among elementary particles.
 
The student will be guided through the strategy of the
 
measurement of the Higgs boson mass from the measurement
 
of the mass of the four leptons produced in one of its possible
 
decay.
 
The student's task will be to study the impact of the er-
 
ror distribution of the four leptons mass in the final mea-
 
surement of the Higgs mass. In order to do that he/she will
 
learn the fundamental notions of statistical data analysis us-
 
ing the ROOT software. He/she will then be asked to study
 
the simulated ATLAS data to understand the main sources of
 
uncertainty on the momentum of the reconstructed particles.
 
 
 
Schedule
 
 
 
week 1: Small introduction about theory and ATLAS experiment
 
 
 
week 2: Introduction to ROOT and Higgs to four lepton event selection
 
 
 
week 3/4: Creation and study of four lepton distribution of mass and error
 
 
 
week 4/5: Creation and study of four lepton distribution of mass and error
 
 
 
week 6/7: Closer look at events with large error, where does it come from?
 
 
 
week 8/9: Closer look at events with large error, where does it come from?
 
 
 
week 10: Presentation of the results
 
 
 
week 11: Writing and discussion
 
 
 
week 12: Writing and discussion
 

Latest revision as of 18:00, 30 January 2017

This is the old page for 2015 bachelor projects. For the newer bachelor projects click on the link below

https://wiki.nikhef.nl/education/Bachelor_Projects#ATLAS =