Master Theses

Master's Theses

Please use reverse chronological order (per University)

Date	Name	Title	Supervisor	University
2019	Paul Renes	The description of high-energy electromagnetic cascades in a highly granular digital calorimeter	T. Peitzmann, M. Spruit, N. 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	A. Grelli, R.J.M. Snellings, A. Mischke	UU
2019	Thomas Mons	The modulation experiment: searching for trends in radioactive decays	A.P. 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

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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