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''' Supervisors:''' Marcel Vreeswijk (staf) and Rogier van der Geer (PhD student)
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''' Supervisors:''' Wouter Hulsbergen (staf) and Veerle Heijne (PhD)
  
  
 
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Single top quark production is a rare process which is only in reach of the Tevatron-collider and
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Supersymmetry is potentially the key to understand the Dark Matter in the Universe.
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the Large Hadron Collider since the last decade. The cross section for t-channel top quark
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Within the SUSY framework, long-living supersymmetric particles can exist, which
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production at the LHC allows precision measurements of the spin structure of the Wtb vertex as a
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can be detected by the LHCb detector. The search for these particle will be performed on
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probe for new physics. For this research the data recorded with the ATLAS detector at 8TeV will be
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the recent data set recorded in 2012, and some work is also needed on the trigger selection,
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used. The observables consist of the decay angles of the top quark from which (anomalous) couplings
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to prepare for data taking in 2015, when the LHC will be running at a higher center-of-mass energy.
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can be extracted. Several contributions to the research are possible, which involve:
 
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-selection of events and reconstruction of the observables;
 
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-unfolding techniques from measured distribution to the underlying truth distribution;
 
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-which quantities can be extracted from the distribution and how do these translate to general
 
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couplings?
 
  
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For this project you need to have affinity with quantum mechanics and computer skills are needed.
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For this project computer skills are needed.
 
The ROOT programme and C++ and/or Python macros are used. You become part of our research group
 
The ROOT programme and C++ and/or Python macros are used. You become part of our research group
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(~5 persons); we have weekly meetings with colleagues at CERN and depending on the results -and
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(~5 persons); we have weekly video meetings with colleagues at CERN.
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perhaps some luck- you may co-author an (internal ATLAS) research note. The project will be soon
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at full pace, requiring you to be flexible.
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Relevant information:
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Master thesis Suzanne Klaver (2013): A Search for Long-lived Neutralinos in LHCb: [http://www.nikhef.nl/pub/experiments/bfys/lhcb/Theses/master/2013_SuzanneKlaver.pdf]

Revision as of 09:14, 22 August 2013

Projects for Master students in the Nikhef B-physics (LHCb) group

date: August 2013

This is an overview with all available Master student projects in the Nikhef B-physics (LHCb) 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 B-physics group leader:

Marcel Merk ___ [ E-mail: i93_at_nikhef.nl, Tel 020-5925107, Nikhef room N2xx]

For an overview of the theses written in the Nikhef B-physics group you can look at the Nikhef LHCb theses page




Master projects in the Nikhef B-physics group

1) Study of long-living particles


Supervisors: Wouter Hulsbergen (staf) and Veerle Heijne (PhD)


Research description:

Supersymmetry is potentially the key to understand the Dark Matter in the Universe. Within the SUSY framework, long-living supersymmetric particles can exist, which can be detected by the LHCb detector. The search for these particle will be performed on the recent data set recorded in 2012, and some work is also needed on the trigger selection, to prepare for data taking in 2015, when the LHC will be running at a higher center-of-mass energy.

For this project computer skills are needed. The ROOT programme and C++ and/or Python macros are used. You become part of our research group (~5 persons); we have weekly video meetings with colleagues at CERN.

Relevant information:

Master thesis Suzanne Klaver (2013): A Search for Long-lived Neutralinos in LHCb: [1]

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