Master Theses

Master's Theses

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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 { 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 pontaneously broken SU(2) theory Ronald Kleis RU Nijmegen 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 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 2020-01 Jochem Kip The unitarity pontaneously broken SU(2) theory Ronald Kleiss RU Nijmegen 2020-01 Lieke van Dijk Branching ratio calculations for B0s → µ+µ− Wim Beenakker, Melissa van Beekveld, Marrit Schutten RU Nijmegen 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 2019-09 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 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 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 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