Master Theses

Master's Theses

Please use reverse chronological order (per University)

Date	Name	Title	Supervisor	University
2024-03	Martijn Barella	Rotating black holes in Quadratic Gravity	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2024-07	Anne Timmermans	GRAND Commissioning and polarization analysis	Harm Schoorlemmer, Olivier Martineau	RU Nijmegen
2024-08	Tim van Dijk	Quantum Ghosts Haunting Black Hole Event Horizons	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2024-07	Bob Truijen	Detecting Anomalous Extensive Air Showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory	Charles Timmermans, Bob Stienen	RU Nijmegen
2024-09	Floris van Oers	On The Measurability of Dark Photons in EAS	Charles Timmermans	RU Nijmegen
2024-09	Nadezhda Dobreva	Translating Hits to Tracks: Transforming High Energy Physics Experiments	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
2024-08	Jorn van Voorthuizen	Multipole Moments in Stationary Spacetimes	Béatrice Bonga, Annegret Burtscher	RU Nijmegen
2024-08	Bram Ruiter	Setting the stage for a data-driven background estimation	Frank Filthaut	RU Nijmegen
2024-07	Pim van Dillen	Interferometry on inclined air showers	Harm Schoorlemmer, Katie Mulrey	RU Nijmegen
2024-08	Tom van der Steen	The Second Order Close Limit Approximation	Béatrice Bonga, Badri Krishnan	RU Nijmegen
2024-07	Koen Thijssen	Predicting Bladder Filling Using Deep Learning	Nicolo de Groot	RU Nijmegen
2024-06	Öykü Tarımeri	Decoupling of Heavy Fermions in the Scalar Sector	Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
2023-12	Alwine Delgado	High-Energy Neutrino Detection from Supernovae	Aart Heijboer	UvA/VU
2023-12	Tim Mathijs Kortekaas	Searching for CP-violating New Physics Signatures in B → V ll decays	Robert Fleischer	UvA/VU
2023-12	Robin Kan	Simulation of high-time-resolution silicon LGAD sensors with Allpix	Hella Snoek	UvA/VU
2023-10	Jasper Westbroek	The chiral magnetic effect in isobaric nuclei at LHC energies	Panos Christakoglou, Robert Fleischer	UvA/VU
2023-10	Ioannis Sidiras	Azimuthal Correlation Studies of Charm and Anti-Charm at LHC Energies	Panos Christakoglou, Hella Snoek	UvA/VU
2023-08	Jelmer Mulder	Seasonal muon variation in the KM3NeT detectors	Ronald Bruijn	UvA/VU
2023-08	Heleen Mulder	Scrutinizing the CKM anomaly within SMEFT and using sterile neutrinos	Jordy de Vries	UvA/VU
2023-08	Dylano van Oijen	Improved modeling and systematic studies for KM3NeT ORCA neutrino oscillation analysis	Daan van Eijk, Paul de Jong	UvA/VU
2023-07	Steven Niedenzu	Constraining the low-x gluon PDF using far-forward neutrinos produced in proton-proton collisions	Juan Rojo	UvA/VU
2023-07	Saad el Morabit	Radiation-Based Electron Momentum Reconstruction in PTOLEMY	Auke-Pieter Colijn	UvA/VU
2023-07	Jelmer de Haan	Position reconstruction with the Hamamatsu R12699-406-M4 PMT	Auke-Pieter Colijn	UvA/VU
2023-07	Floris Jan Kamphorst	Characterising components of the XAMS TPC	Auke-Pieter Colijn	UvA/VU
2023-07	Evangelia Nikoloudaki	Neutrino oscillation analysis with the first data of KM3NeT	Paul de Jong	UvA/VU
2023-07	Pranati Kharbanda	Exploring the gg → ZH process for constraining Wilson coefficients within the SMEFT framework	Marcel Vreeswijk	UvA/VU
2023-07	Lisanne Bleiksch	Optimisation of the Machine Learning-based Event Selection of Higgs Decaying into Two Muons	Wouter Verkerke	UvA/VU
2023-07	Isis Hobus	A dedicated in-DOM muon detector for KM3NeT	Ronald Bruijn	UvA/VU
2023-07	Maaike Bakker	The Impact of the High Luminosity LHC on the SMEFT Parameter Space	Juan Rojo	UvA/VU
2023-07	Adrianne Schaus	Polarized Structure functions with Heavy flavor Corrections for Neutral Current Deep Inelastic Scattering at Next-to-Next-Leading Order	Juan Rojo	UvA/VU
2023-07	Pim Herbschleb	Generating hadron level unbinned multivariate observables for EFT fits at the LHC from Machine Learning	Juan Rojo	UvA/VU
2023-07	Boudewijn Zwanenburg	Methods for Calculating Feynman Integrals	Eric Laenen	UvA/VU
2023-06	Josep Sola Cava	The effect of the FPF@LHC on the high-x charm PDF	Juan Rojo	UvA/VU
2023-06	Douwe Nobels	Characterisation of RD-50 HV-CMOS Sensors	Jory Sonneveld	UvA/VU
2023-03	Mattia Boscardin	Bridging the Gap between Proton Decay and the B-anomalies with the Scalar Leptoquark S_3	Robert Fleischer	UvA/VU
2023-01	Guido Smit	Simulating and Analysing Accidental Coincidence Backgrounds in the DARWIN Dark Matter Detector	Tina Pollmann	UvA/VU
2023-01	Daan Oppenhuis	Charge calibration of Timepix4	Martin van Beuzekom, Kazu Akiba	UvA/VU
2023-01	Ethan van Woerkom	Modelling Kilonova Afterglows with Teiresias Radiative Transfer	Samaya Nissanke	UvA/VU
2023-12	Dirren van Vlijmen	Learning the Phases of the cpMSSM	Wim Beenakker, Jochem Kip	RU Nijmegen
2023-11	Wouter Morren	Transformer regressing the mass of boosted Higgs bosons decaying to bb	Frank Filthaut	RU Nijmegen
2023-07	Steven Bos	Accelerating Trigger Performance of the ALICE Detector Using FPGA-Based Neural Networks	A. Grelli, M. Rossewij	UU
2023-06	Colin Bolle	Using machine learning for non-prompt D0 analysis	A. Grelli, R. Snellings	UU
2023-11	Eric Teunis de Boone	Synchronisation Methods for Air Shower Radio Detectors	Harm Schoorlemmer, Katharine Mulrey	RU Nijmegen
2023-11	Susanne Auwens	Analysis of LGADs for the High Granularity Timing Detector	Mengqing Wu	RU Nijmegen
2023-10	Madelief Koster	Particle detection and direction reconstruction	Charles Timmermans	RU Nijmegen
2023-10	Tuan Amith	Particles in 3D Regge Gravity and BMS symmetry	Timothy Budd, Alicia Castro	RU Nijmegen
2023-08	Robin Rietman	One-Loop Matching of a Scalar Dark Matter Effective Field Theory	Susanne Westhoff	RU Nijmegen
2023-08	Guus Korver	Renormalizing the Graviton 2-Point Function in the Presence of Matter	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2023-08	Jesse van der Duin	Curvature Correlations in Quantum Gravity	Renate Loll	RU Nijmegen
2023-08	Berend Schneider	Reading the Cosmic Palm: Spinors, the Weyl Tensor Fingerprint, and Mass in General Relativity	Béatrice Bonga, Gijs Nelemans	RU Nijmegen
2023-07	Bart Peters	Tidal resonances in extreme mass ratio inspirals	Béatrice Bonga	RU Nijmegen
2023-07	Mila Keijer	Conformal symmetry versus quantization of geodesic motion	Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
2023-07	Bas Slotema	The production and propagation angles for muon neutrino charged current deep inelastic scattering events	Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
2023-07	Tom Gerstel	Simulating Quantum Gravity	Timothy Budd	RU Nijmegen
2023-06	Thoman Meeusen	Describing hyperbolic surfaces with decorated tree graphs	Timothy Budd	RU Nijmegen
2023-03	Martijn Velders	PTOLEMY Project: Graphene-Based Particle Detector	Nicolo de Groot, U. Zeitler	RU Nijmegen
2023-02	Jasper Jacobs	pMSSM stau search at ATLAS	Wim Beenakker, Cristina Galea, Melissa van Beekveld	RU Nijmegen
2022-12	Julian Franssen	DRL	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
2022-08	Ilija Milutin	Probing New Physics using heavy charged leptons in B-meson decays A discussion of B → Kτ τ decays	Wim Beenakker, Frank Filthaut	RU Nijmegen
2022-12	W. Rijk	Unsupervised Anomaly Detection of Quenched Jets with the LSTM and OC-SVM	M. Verweij, F. de Almeida Dias	UvA/VU
2022-11	N. Runge	Studies for KM3NeT-ORCA Performance for Dark Matter Detection	S. du Pree, P. de Jong	UvA/VU
2022-08	N. Koster	Feasibility study of Ω++ detection in proton-proton ccc collisions with ALICE 3 using Strangeness Tracking	P. Christakoglou, H. Snoek	UvA/VU
2022-08	J. Groot	Probing CP-Violating New Physics in Bd0 →φKS andBs0 →φφ	R. Fleischer	UvA/VU
2022-08	C. Tsolanta	Characterisation and Time resolution measurements of the RD50-MPW2 monolithic silicon pixel sensor	J. Sonneveld	UvA/VU
2022-08	M. Arkin	Modelling aperture effects in optical cavities	A. Freise	UvA/VU
2022-08	M. Janssen	Characterizing Trench-Isolated Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (TI-LGADs)	M. van Beuzekom, K. Akiba, A.P. Colijn	UvA/VU
2022-07	M.L.E. Heidotting	Towards a Muon Tomography System for Spent Nuclear Fuel	J.M. Sonneveld, M. Fransen	UvA/VU
2022-07	M.N. Stapel	Probing Hadronic CP Violation with Paramagnetic Electric Dipole Moment Experiments	J. de Vries	UvA/VU
2022-07	B. Matthaei	Searching for the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV using the Signed Balance Function	P. Christakoglou, R. Feischer	UvA/VU
2022-07	C. van der Stappen	Acoustic Neutrino Reconstruction Using Matched Filtering	E.J. Buis, I. van Vulpen	UvA/VU
2022-07	A.C. Sidley	Λ0b → Λ0l+l− at high-q2	N. Tuning, M. Senghi-Soares	UvA/VU
2022-07	F.E. Pennartz	Measurement of the fine-structure constant with Positronium annihilation	A.P. Colijn	UvA/VU
2022-07	M. Rustenburg	From microscopic symmetries to a macroscopic toy Universe	J. de Vries	UvA/VU
2022-07	F. Haslbeck	Simultaneous SMEFT interpretation of the signal and backgrounds in the V H, H →b ̄b analysis and ATLAS DSS during the start of LHC Run 3	T. du Pree, F. de Almeida Dias	UvA/VU
2022-07	C. Fuselli	Beta decays in XENONnT	M.P. Decowski, A.P. Colijn	UvA/VU
2022-01	K. Weerman	Non-thermal production of Dark Matter during preheating after multifield inflation via a non- minimally coupled gauge singlet scalar	M. Postma, C. Weniger	UvA/VU
2022-10	Olaf Massen	To the Standard Model and beyond; A theoretical and experimental study of Leptoquark phenomenology and its traces in LFV B → τμ decays in theory and with LHCb	R.J.M. Snellings, A. Grelli, J. de Vries, M. Lucio Martinez	UU
2022-07	Maurice Jongerhuis	Performance study of future Λ0b production with ALICE3	P. Christakoglou, M. Verweij	UU
2022-08	Kolja Kuijpers	Constructing and bounding the solutions of Quantum Gravity with the Event Horizon Telescope	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2022-08	Finn ten Hove	Putting a stop to searches for supersymmetric particles	Wim Beenakker, M.C. van Beekveld, Cristina Galea	RU Nijmegen
2022-08	Luc Builtjes	Optimising Neural Networks for Classification of tttt-Events in the LHC	Sascha Caron / Bob Stienen	RU Nijmegen
2022-08	Stefan de Wit	Decoupling Heavy Fermions in the Scalar Sector:  Choosing an Appropriate Renormalization Scheme	Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
2022-06	Brian Mc Gloughlin	Gravitational Waves from Newly Born Magnetars	Béatrice Bonga	RU Nijmegen
2022-06	Inge van Rens	Spectral slope as a measure for Xmax	Charles Timmermans	RU Nijmegen
2022-06	Brian McGloughlin	Gravitational Waves from Newly Born Magnetars	Badri Krishnan / Béatrice Bonga	RU Nijmegen
2022-06	Maikel Magnée	Alternative models matched to the data of GW150914	Badri Krishnan / Béatrice Bonga	RU Nijmegen
2022-04	Henk Brans	Cherenkov-Ring Energy Estimation	Charles Timmermans	RU Nijmegen
2021-07	Alessa Brignoli	Characterization of the electrostatic Radon Monitor in XAMS	S. Bruenner, A.P. Colijn	UvA/VU
2021-08	Marcel Yanez Reyes	A study of the Infrared structure of Non Abelian Gauge theories	E. Laenen	UvA/VU
2021-07	Max Jaarsma	Calculating Parton Distributions from First Principles	W. Waalewijn	UvA/VU
2021-07	Maricke Flierman	The Electroweak Phase Transition: an investigation of a first-order phase transition with an additional real scalar singlet field	M. Postma, E. Laenen	UvA/VU
2021-07	Tjip Bischoff	The Nikhef two photon absorption setup	H. Snoek	UvA/VU
2021-07	Anastasios Papadopoulos	Beauty Λ production in ALICE with the upgraded ITS	P. Christakoglou, I. van Vulpen	UvA/VU
2021-07	Pepijn Clarijs	Optimizing an Artificial Neural Network for the Measurement of H → bb-bar with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider	T. du Pree, F. de Almeida Dias	UvA/VU
2021-07	Vlad Tanasa	Axion Cosmology	M. Postma, B. Freivogel	UvA/VU
2021-07	Cas van Veen	Simulation studies of electron-hadron separation with a preshower detector for ALICE 3 at the LHC	M. van Leeuwen, H. Snoek	UvA/VU
2021-06	Joey Staa	Modelling the chiral magnetic effect in heavy-ion collisions through the AVFD framework	P. Christakoglou, R. Fleischer	UvA/VU
2021-06	Zhuoran Feng	Search for H → cc-bar and exclusive charm tagging	T. du Pree, W. Verkerke	UvA/VU
2021-06	Pablo Guillem Fernandez	Rare Semileptonic Decays of B Mesons Exploiting SU(3) Flavour Symmetry	R. Fleischer	UvA/VU
2021-06	Barbara Paetsch	Signal reconstruction in XENONnT	M.P. Decowski	UvA/VU
2021-05	Maarten Hammer	Performance test of the KM3NeT track reconstruction software on ANTARES Monte Carlo data	M. de Jong, P. de Jong	UvA/VU
2021-03	Wouter Schreuder	Exploring applications of machine learning to jet discrimination	W. Waalewijn	UvA/VU
2021-02	Leonora Verveld	Particle detection through proportional scintillation in liquid xenon	S. Bruenner, A.P. Colijn	UvA/VU
2021-01	Annabel Wolf	Optical System Design of the Einstein Telescope Pathfinder	F. Linde, A.P. Colijn	UvA/VU
2021-01	Amber van Keeken	Charge-dependent two-particle correlations for unidentifi?ed charged particles in Xe-Xe collisions at √sNN = 5.44 TeV	P. Christakoglou	UU
2021-07	Loek Meijers	Feasibility Study on the reconstruction of heavy neutral D-mesons with data collected by the ALICE detector at CERN LHC	A. Grelli, H. Zanoli	UU
2021-12	Willem van der Feltz	Master coupling to two-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations	Renate Loll / Joren Brunekreef / Claus Kiefer	RU Nijmegen
2021-12	Dirk van Buul	Black hole formation in AdS3	Timothy Budd	RU Nijmegen
2021-11	Tom de Wilt	A Diagrammatic Approach to Amplitude Unitarity in the Electroweak Theory	Ronald Kleis	RU Nijmegen
2021-10	Camille van Speybroeck	Implementation of low-field permanent magnet Halbach array MRI	Mengqing WU / A.G. Webb	RU Nijmegen
2021-9	Joost Remie	Calculating Love numbers using black hole perturbation theory	Béatrice Bonga	RU Nijmegen
2021-9	Djamel van der Sluis	Statistics of spatial geometries in Causal Dynamical Triangulations in 2+1 dimensions	Timothy Budd	RU Nijmegen
2021-9	Chris van den Oetelaar	Localisation and classification of gamma-ray sources using neural networks	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
2021-8	Bren Schaap	Renormalization of Factorially Divergent Series: Quantum Field Theory in Zero Dimensions	Ronald Kleis	RU Nijmegen
2021-8	Wouter Oosters	Asumptotically Safe Fermions On Curved Backgrounds	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2021-8	Guus Reijns	The role of renormalization schemes in the context of the SM Hierarchy Problem	Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
2021-7	Bart Zonneveld	A Local Vacuum in De Sitter Space	Wim Beenakker / David Venhoek	RU Nijmegen
2021-7	Sam Pirlo	On the Quantum Effective Action of Gravity Coupled to Scalar and Abelian Gauge Fields	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2021-6	Stefan Krieg	Diagrammatic derivation of the BCJ indentity	Ronald Kleis	RU Nijmegen
2021-3	Ludo van Alst	Deep learming for segmentation and classification of Wilms' tumours	Nicolo de Groot	RU Nijmegen
2021-3	Tom Draper	Asymptotically Safe Amplitudes	Frank Saueressig / Benjamin Knorr / Chris Ripken	RU Nijmegen
2021-2	Daniël Kok	Building a quantum kNN classifier with Qiskit: theoretical gains put to practice	Sascha Caron / Sydney Otten	RU Nijmegen

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Date	Name	Title	Supervisor	University
2020-7	Thijs Miedema	Stopping Muons at ProtoDUNE	Frank Filthaut	RU Nijmegen
2020-7	Jeremy de Wit	Comparisons of computational tools for the muon anomalous magnetic moment within the pMSSM	Wim Beenakker/Melissa van Beekveld/Marrit Schutten	RU Nijmegen
2020-7	Remco Volmer	Anomaly detection at the ATLAS detector using a Variational Autoencoder	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
2020-7	Jesse Daas	Fermions in the Asymptotic Safety Program	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2020-1	Jochem Kip	The unitarity spontaneously broken SU(2) theory	Ronald Kleis	RU Nijmegen
2020-01	Lieke van Dijk	Branching ratio calculations for B0s → µ+µ−	Wim Beenakker, Melissa van Beekveld, Marrit Schutten	RU Nijmegen
2020-12	Kerwin Buijsman	Generating glitches similar to glitches observed by LIGO and Virgo using Wasserstein Generative Adversial Network with Gradient Penalty	S.E. Caudill	UvA/VU
2020-10	Anders Rehult	Linking the B-physics Anomalies and Muon g - 2—A Phenomenological Study Beyond the Standard Model	R. Fleischer	UvA/VU
2020-9	Clara Gatius OIiver	Acoustic signals from ultra high energy cosmic neutrinos	R. Bruijn, E.J. Buis	UvA/VU
2020-8	Yoran Yeh	CP Violating New Physics in QCD Penguin Diagrams for B-Decays	R. Fleischer	UvA/VU
2020-8	Jeannine de Kuijper	Extracting Hadronic Parameters from Branching Ratios in Non-Leptonic D Decays	R. Fleischer	UvA/VU
2020-8	Sumedha Biswas	Detecting Primordial Black Holes with Gravitational Waves	S.E. Caudill	UvA/VU
2020-8	Bram Hoonhout	Improving Higgs decay width measurement using off-shell interference in gg(→H*)→ZZ→llνν	H.L. Snoek, I. van Vulpen	UvA/VU
2020-7	Lucas de Vries	Deep Neural Networks for Position Reconstruction in XENON1T	M.P. Decowski	UvA/VU
2020-6	Gijs Leguijt	Variance reduced monte-carlo simulation for neutrons in XENON	A.P. Colijn	UvA/VU
2020-6	Vlad Dedu	Measurement of the branching ratio Lambda_b -> J/Psi Lambda	N. Tuning	UvA/VU
2020-2	Ester Abram	Seeing LISA from a different angle	N. van Bakel, E.J. Buis	UvA/VU
2020-11	Marten Barel	Controlling penguin contributions to CP violation in B⁰→J/ψX decays	R. Fleischer, P. Christakoglou, R.J.M. Snellings	UU
2020-09	Bas Hofman	Angular analysis of the decay B0→K ∗0 J/ψ(→ e+e−)	W. Hulsbergen, M.Lucio Martinez, R.J.M. Snellings (examined)	UU
2020-06	Olivier Kesber	Variance reduction techniques for Monte Carlo simulations of photon transport in liquid xenon detectors	A.P. Colijn	UU
2020-01	Floris Jonkman	Charm baryon production at central rapidity in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV	P. Christakoglou, D. Caffarri	UU

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Date	Name	Title	Supervisor	University
2019	Paul Renes	The description of high-energy electromagnetic cascades in a highly granular digital calorimeter	Thomas Peitzmann, Marco Spruit, Naomi van der Kolk	UU
2019	Stan Oomen	Measurement of charged D∗+ meson production in Pb-Pb collisions in 60-80% centrality with the ALICE detector at CERN	Alessandro Grelli, Raimond Snellings, Andre Mischke	UU
2019	Thomas Mons	The modulation experiment: searching for trends in radioactive decays	Auke Pieter Colijn	UU
12-Dec-19	Davey Oogjes	Track reconstruction of cosmic muons in the XENON1T muon veto	Patrick Decowski	UvA/VU
25-Oct-19	Max Briel	Muonic event reconstuction in KM3NeT-ORCA	Ronald Bruijn	UvA/VU
8-Oct-19	Gabriel Koole	Probing New Physics effects in Leptonic and Semileptonic D meson decays	Robert Fleischer	UvA/VU
23-Aug-19	Peter Bosch	Going Three Dimensional. Characterisation of a 3D sensor on a Timepix3 ASIC	Niels van Bakel	UvA/VU
22-Aug-19	Thijs Dieperink	Supersymmetric neutralino Dark Matter search using machine learning techniques with the ATLAS detector	Paul de Jong	UvA/VU
26-Jul-19	Iris de Ruiter	Incorporating machine learning algorithms that provide information on noise features in the search for compact binary coalescence	Sarah Caudill	UvA/VU
26-Jul-19	Marnix Heikamp	Constructing and Implementing a Template Bank with Precessing Waveforms in the Search For Gravitational Waves	Sarah Caudill	UvA/VU
24-Jul-19	Valeriia Lukashenko	Long lived heavy neutrinos in W ± → μ± μ± jet decays	Wouter Hulsbergen	UvA/VU
13-Jul-19	Alvaro Loya Villalpando	Characterization of Silicon Photomultipliers for Event Position Reconstruction in a Dual-Phase Xenon Time Projection Chamber	Auke-Pieter Colijn	UvA/VU
12-Jul-19	Bouke Jung	The effect of decreasing PMT gains on event reconstruction in KamLAND-Zen	Patrick Decowski	UvA/VU
3-Jul-19	Brendan Mans	Directed Flow of Λ in Mid-Central Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV with ALICE	Panos Christakoglou	UvA/VU
19-Jun-19	Lizette Lammers	Neutral Meson and Jet Reconstruction in Heavy Ion Physics	Thomas Peitzmann	UvA/VU
23-Mar-19	Maarten Post	"KM3NNeT" A neural network for triggering and classifying raw KM3NeT data	Ronald Bruijn	UvA/VU
27-Feb-19	Manuel Wierda	Charm production in proton-nuclear collisions at the LHC and constraining the small-x gluon in a nuclear NNPDF analysis	Juan Rojo	UvA/VU
2019	Tim Voeten	Title	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
2019	Inge van Rens	simulations with GANs	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
2019	Chris van den Oetelaar	Title	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
2019-09	Joep Leenaarts	Calculating splitting functions, using local gauges	Ronald Kleiss	RU Nijmegen
2019-07	Lando Bosma	Towards resolving singularities in Asymptotic Safety	Benjamin Knorr, Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2019-06	Derryk Schieck	N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and its deformations a functional renormalisation approach	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2019-04	Berend Visser	Observers in Curved-Spacetime Quantum Field Theory	Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
2019-03	Arthur Vereijken	Relating different regularization schemes in Functional Renormalization	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen

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Date	Name	Title	Supervisor	University
2018	M. Tervoert	First observation of the decay Lb->Dsp	L.J. Bel, N. Tuning, A. Mischke, A. Grelli	UU
2018	P.W. Gaemers	D*+ Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV	A. Grelli, A. Mischke	UU
2018-08-28	Mike Eijbersen	Acquisition strategies and MR Physics of imaging (hyperpolarized) molecules exploiting large chemical shift differences molecules exploiting large chemical shift differences	Nicolo de Groot	RU Nijmegen
2018-11-22	Misha Fedorov	On the physical beam aperture in the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment	Frank Filthaut	RU Nijmegen
2018-04-18	Rowan Zaki	The Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF); Beamline optimization & Spectrometer design	Frank Filthaut	RU Nijmegen
2018-08-29	Sjoerd Ypma	Search for the perfect variable to find new physics in pp collisions at √s= 13 TeV.	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
2018-08-23	Jonas Wuerzinger	Scanning the phenomenological MSSM - Re-evaluating the ATLAS experiment’s sensitivity to Supersymmetry with LHC Run 2 data in a dedicated 3rd generation squarks scan	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
2018-08-02	Levi Sleegers	Using Countercurrent electromigration to enrich calcium 48	Nicolo de Groot	RU Nijmegen
2018-12-31	Sjors Heefer	Advancements on the covariance of the k-Poincare model and Relative Locality", titel master scriptie Obster: "Exploring the Canonical Tensor Model	G. Gubitosi/Renate Loll	RU Nijmegen
2018-07-02	Renz Bakx	Het experimenteel bepalen van een massalimiet voor neutralino's	Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
2018-08-30	Joris van der Ven	Calculation of the gluino corrections to the Higgs mass in the MSSM - Implications for the hierarchy problem	Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
2018-09-12	Dennis Obster	The Canonical Tensor Model, spaces and symmetries	Renate Loll	RU Nijmegen
2018-11-01	Camiel Pieterse	Dark Matter with KM3NeT	Wim Beenakker/Sasch Caron	RU Nijmegen
2018-07-15	Robin Ooijer	A complete cosmic history from Asymptotic Safety	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2018-08-31	Kathinka Frieswijk	Infrared Triangles Everywhere.	D. Roest	RUG
2018-08-31	Jolien Diekema	Higher order derivative gravitational theories in the metric and Palatini formalisms	D. Roest	RUG
2018-08-31	Hilbrand Kuindersma	Detecting Muons at LHCb Upgrade Conditions	C.J.G. Onderwater	RUG
2018-06-29	Melvin van den Bout	Renormalization Group Equations and Predictions for New Higgs Inflation	M. Postma	UvA/VU
2018-06-22	Stephen Runderkamp	Investigating post-LHC hadronic interaction models and their predictions of cosmic ray shower observables	M.P. Decowski	UvA/VU
2018-08-30	Katherine Mc Ewan	Neutron Detection Using a Small Dual-Phase Liquid Xenon TPC and a Liquid Organic Scintillator	A.P. Colijn	UvA/VU
2018-06-28	Sizar Aziz	Mixed harmonics in QGP traces	P. Christakoglou	UvA/VU
2018-08-22	Giovanni Banelli	Indirect search of new physics through rare B decays involving tau leptons	R. Fleischer	UvA/VU
2018-07-03	Jordy Butter	Determining the branching fraction of B0 -> Pi Ds	N. Tuning	UvA/VU
2018-08-28	Aidan Kelly	Study of the sensitivity of the ATLAS experiment to constrain the Higgs coupling to b-quarks	I. van Vulpen	UvA/VU
2018-06-26	Rasa Muller	Hydrophone characterization for the KM3NeT experiment	R. Bruijn	UvA/VU
2018-09-29	Athul Muralidhar	Study of oscillons in 1+1D with a gentle introduction to multi- component oscillon models	M. Postma	UvA/VU
2018-07-17	Jasper Nobelen	On the modulations of radioactive decay	A.P. Colijn	UvA/VU
2018-09-26	Michiel Rollier	Finding Echoes: The characterisation of gravitational-wave echoes and the investigation of a morphology-independent data analysis method	C. Van Den Broeck	UvA/VU
2018-09-28	Jordan Seneca	Models of Particle Signatures in KM3NeT ORCA	R. Bruijn	UvA/VU
2018-07-17	Mitch Vonk	Machine Learning in XENON1T's search for dark matter	M.P. Decowski	UvA/VU
2018-07-17	Lieselotte de Waardt	Signatures of cosmic ray interactions in the KM3NeT neutrino detector	R. Bruijn	UvA/VU
2018-08-02	Steven Zindel	Balancefunction analysis at the LHC on run 2 data	P. Christakoglou	UvA/VU
2018-12-21	Manuel Wierda	Charm production in proton-nuclear collisions at the LHC and constraining the small-x gluon in a nuclear NNPDF analysis	J. Rojo	UvA/VU

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Date	Name	Title	Supervisor	University
2017	K.D. van Teutem	PMT calibrations and radon measurements in a liquid xenon time projection chamber	A.P. Colijn, E. Hogenbirk	UU
2017-09-05	Manon Verra	Feasibility and Quality Assessment of Model-based Respiratory Motion Compensation in Positron Emission Tomography	Andre Mischke	UU
2017-08-23	Luuk Vermunt	Open heavy-flavour production in high-energy proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions at CERN-LHC energies	Andre Mischke	UU
2017-02-01	Lennart van Doremalen	Beauty of the Quark Gluon Plasma Prospect for B0 measurement in ALICE	Andre Mischke	UU
2017-04-21	G. S. P. Wiersema	Using the B0 → K±π ∓ channel as normalization in the search for the charged lepton flavor violating B0 (s) → e ±µ ∓ decay	C.J.G. Onderwater	RUG
2017-07-31	S. van der Woude	Radiative Symmetry Breaking in minimal Conformally Invariant extensions of the Standard Model	D. Boer	RUG
2017-07-31	J. Heit	Exploring GPU-Computing to Accellerate Vertex Finding in Particle Physics	C.J.G. Onderwater	RUG
2017-07-31	D.R. Löke	The scalar spectrum of non-Abelian gauge theories below the conformal window	E. Pallante	RUG
2017-07-31	D.D. Rouwhorst	Equivalence between the Bender–Wu method and the quantum normal form method	E. Pallante	RUG
2017-11-11	M.J. Veen	A fast tool to predict peaking and semi-peaking backgrounds in two body decay processes	C.J.G. Onderwater	RUG
2017-11-11	J.R.E. Baarslag	A fast simulation model for mass spectrum shapes of particle decays in high-energy physics experiments	C.J.G. Onderwater	RUG
2017-11-23	J. Ellen	Varying constants and the search for physics beyond the Standard Model	A. Borschevsky	RUG
2017-11-23	I. Bouisaghouane	The Schrodinger method for Large-Scale Structure	D. Roest and R. vd Weygaert	RUG
2017-11-23	T. Meijknecht	Narrow linewidth lasers to drive narrow Ba+ ion transitions	L. Willmann	RUG
2017-12-19	K.J.D. Hakvoort	The equivalence between second-order, Ostrogradsky-free (Galileon) Lagrangians and regular first-order theories	D. Roest and H. Waalkens	RUG
2017-??-??	K. Dirksen	Unifying Conformal Gravity and the Standard Model of particle physics	E. Pallante	RUG
2017-10-09	Laurens Verhoeven	Lepton Flavor Violating Higgs	Robert Fleischer	UvA/VU
2017-08-30	Eleftheria Malami	CP Violation in B^0→ pi^0 K_S As A Probe of New Physics	Robert Fleischer	UvA/VU
2017-08-23	Bram Schermer	Understanding the time-over-threshold behaviour of KM3NeT photo-multipliers	Ronald Bruijn	UvA/VU
2017-07-26	Jonathan Mo	Quark/gluon jets discrimination using thrust at NNLL	Wouter Waalewijn	UvA/VU
2017-07-01	Bas Jongewaard	Effect of detector angular resolution and surface area on the accuracy of pinpointing the neutrino signal	Aart Heijboer	UvA/VU
2017-07-01	Arjen Wildeboer	XENON1T Threshold Analysis	Patrick Decowski	UvA/VU
2017-06-30	Joran Angevaare	Search for modulations on in the decay rate of radioactive sources	Auke-Pieter Colijn	UvA/VU
2017-06-26	F.M. Springer	Symmetries of the Standard Model	Piet Mulders	UvA/VU
2017-06-15	Wesley Poland	Opportunities for iodine-agent dose reduction with Medipix3RX Spectral X-ray	Els Koffeman	UvA/VU
2017-03-10	Eline Wieldraaijer	Characterization of photomultiplier tubes using a laser setup and muon energy reconstruction for ORCA based on the length of the track	Dorothea Samtleben	UvA/VU
2017-03-01	John Hoang	Characterization of Silicon PhotoMultipliers for the Cherenkov Telescope Array	David Berge	UvA/VU
2017-01-31	Dimitra Andreou	Development of a testing system for the Silicon Pixel Detectors of the Inner Tracking System of ALICE	Paul de Jong	UvA/VU
2017-09-01	Wouter Houthoff	Safe Spheres and where to find them	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2017-06-28	Jorn Biemans	Renormalization group flows of gravity and gravity-matter systems on foliated spacetimes	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
2017-03-16	Oscar Boher Luna	The Abelian Higgs Model: Unitarity in the unitary gauge	Ronald Kleiss	RU Nijmegen
2017-01-27	Alex Campà	Searching for Dark Matter gamma-ray signals from dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT data	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
2017-01-12	Ruud Peeters	Experimental and Theoretical (Fine-Tuning) Constraints on pMSSM Models	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen

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Date	Name	Title	Supervisor	University
9 Feb 2016	Melissa van Beekveld	Possible Indirect Detection of Dark Matter and its impact on LHC Supersymmetry searches	Sascha Caron and Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
18 Jul 2016	Fleur Versteegen	Quantum Gravity corrections to the Unruh effect	Frank Saueressig	RU Nijmegen
26 Aug 2016	Han van der Pluijm	'On the interpretation of the quantum wave function'	Ronald Kleiss	RU Nijmegen
9 Sept 2016	Daphne van den Elzen	The link between a vacuum diagram and the renormalization group equation	Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
3 Nov 2016	Milo Vermeulen.	Calcium Enrichment for the Study of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay	Nicolo de Groot	RU Nijmegen
15 Dec 2016	David Venhoek	Quantum vacua in curved spacetime	Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
24 Nov 2016	Bob Stienen	SUSY-AI	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
1 Sept 2016	Antonio Condorelli	Selftrigger of Radio Signals from Cosmic Rays in Pierre Auger	Charles Timmermans together with University of Catania	RU Nijmegen
5 Dec 2015	Luc Hendriks	A description of the Galactic Center excess in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model	Sascha Caron (with Bram Achterberg, Astro)	RU Nijmegen
27 Aug 2015	Gillian Lustermans	The Landau-Yang theorem in Quantum Chromodynamics	W.J.P. Beenakker, R.H.P. Kleiss	RU Nijmegen
31 Aug 2015	Jelmer van Amen	General Search in ATLAS	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
31 Mar 2015	Jeroen Schouwenberg	Missing momentum reconstruction at Level 1 with a Kalman Filter	Sascha Caron	RU Nijmegen
31 Oct 2015	Chris Ripken	Curvature on the noncommutative tangent bundle	Ronald Kleiss and Wim Beenakker	RU Nijmegen
Dec 1, 2016	M. Roelfs	On the eigenvalue distribution of the SYK model	K.Papadodimas	RUG
Sep 19, 2016	R. Kappert	Electron identification efficiency in Bs0 -> emu	C.J.G. Onderwater	RUG
Sep 15, 2016	J. Hussels	Molecular hyperfine structure and the electron EDM	S. Hoekstra	RUG
Aug 1, 2016	J.G. Bakker	Towards an effective field theory for proton decay	R.G.E. Timmermans	RUG
Aug 1, 2016	F. Oosterhof	Neutron-antineutron oscillations in chiral perturbation theory (Lorentz prize Theoretical Physics 2015/16)	R.G.E. Timmermans	RUG
Mar, 2016	L. L. Robroek	Framing the Conformal Window	E. Pallante	RUG
2016	K. van der Schoor	Electronic structure of element 123	A. Borschevsky	RUG
Aug 30, 2016	T. van Daalen	Bridging the Mass Gap - Probing Compressed Electroweak Supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider	W. Verkerke	UvA/VU
Aug 24, 2016	R.L. Jaarsma	New Strategy to Extract the CP-violating Phase phi_s from Bs → K-K+	R. Fleischer	UvA/VU
Aug 12, 2016	J.M. Goldstein	Reliability of the Parameterised Test of General Relativity on GW150914 and GW151226	C. Van Den Broeck	UvA/VU
Jul 24, 2016	J.S. Sinninghe Damsté	Next-to-soft techniques in collider physics	E.L.M.P. Laenen	UvA/VU
Jul 15, 2016	R. Albers	Event shapes in electron-positron annihilation at NNLO accuracy	E.L.M.P. Laenen	UvA/VU
Jul 14, 2016	D. Schenk	Study of Modulations in Radioactive Decay	A.P. Colijn	UvA/VU
Jul 7, 2016	A. Topçuoğlu	CUDA-Based Trigger System For The XENON Experiment	M.P. Decowski	UvA/VU
Jul 2, 2016	J.B. Zonneveld	Dependence of B meson fragmentation fraction ratio fs/fd on centre-of-mass energy	I. van Vulpen	UvA/VU
Jun 28, 2016	C. Ligtenberg	Scattering of polarised W bosons: Measuring the polarised W bosons - Higgs coupling with ATLAS using charged lepton observables	B. van Eijk	UvA/VU
Jun 23, 2016	M.M.A. Dietze	Proton Radiography: Prototype Development Towards Clinical Application	E. Koffeman	UvA/VU
Jun 16, 2016	M.A. Pronk	The Higgs boson coupling to polarised W bosons in vector boson fusion	B. van Eijk	UvA/VU
May 8, 2016	T. Klaver	Construction and analysis of a proton radiography setup using Timepix based time projection chambers for tracking	E. Koffeman	UvA/VU
Jan 31, 2016	J.P. Veenkamp	A Precision Optical Calibration Module for IceCube-Gen2	M.P. Decowski	UvA/VU
Oct 21, 2015	P.J.C. Bakker	Search for charged lepton flavor violating Z → τe decays with the ATLAS detector	O. Igonkina	UvA/VU
Oct 8, 2015	R. Hutten	Prototype Data Analysis of the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope	P. Kooijman	UvA/VU
Sept 23, 2015	M.L. Muusse	Astroparticle physics at the LHC - Dark matter search in ATLAS	D. Berge	UvA/VU
Aug 28, 2015	S. Vogel	Calculations of jet substructure	W. Waalewijn	UvA/VU
Aug 26, 2015	P.M. Zuidberg dos Mártires	An Exploratory Study of LHCf-triggered Events at ATLAS	D. Berge	UvA/VU
Aug 11, 2015	J. Hulsman	Analysis on the Muon Track Reconstruction with the PPM-DU	P. Kooijman	UvA/VU