Master Theses
Master's Theses
Please use reverse chronological order (per University)
| Date | Name | Title | Supervisor | University |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |