Thesis page LHCb Nikhef

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PhD theses

Name	Year	Title	Thesis
Silvia Ferreres Sole	2022	The beauty of the rare	(pdf)
Cristina Sanchez Gras	2022	Exceptionally empty charm - Central exclusive production of charmonia at LHCb	(pdf)
Michele Veronesi	2021	Quantum oscillations of neutral particles with the beauty quark	(pdf)
Mick Mulder	2021	The essence of rare beauty	(pdf)
Maarten van Veghel	2020	Pursuing forbidden beauty : Search for the lepton-flavour violating decays B0 -> e+- mu+- and Bs0 -> e+- mu+- and study of electron-reconstruction performance at LHCb	(pdf)
Katya Govorkova	2020	Measuring asymmetry in strange beauty	(pdf)
Elena Dall'Occo	2020	Search for heavy neutrinos and characterisation of silicon sensors for the VELO upgrade	(pdf)
Laurent Dufour	2019	High-precision measurements of charge asymmetries at LHCb	(pdf)
Lennaert Bel	2018	CP violation in open-charmed beauty decays	(pdf)
Jacco de Vries	2018	Asymmetries in mixed beauty decays	(pdf)
Vasileios Syropoulos	2017	Controlling Penguins : an estimate of penguin topologies contributing to the weak phase phi s	(pdf)
Panos Tsopelas	2016	A silicon pixel detector for LHcB	(pdf)
Pieter David	2016	Search for exotic long-lived particles with the LHCb detector	(pdf)
Jeroen van Leerdam	2016	Measurement of CP violation in mixing and decay of strange beauty mesons	(pdf)
Siim Tolk	2016	Discovery of rare B decays	(pdf)
Rose Koopman	2015	Ageing of the LHCb Outer Tracker & b-hadron production and decay at (sqrt)s = 7 TeV	(pdf)
Kristof de Bruyn	2015	Searching for Penguin footprints : Towards high precision CP violation measurements in the B meson systems	(pdf)
Roel Aaij	2015	Triggering on CP violation. Real-time selection and reconstruction of Bs -> J/psi phi decays	(pdf)
Veerle Heijne	2014	Search for long-lived exotic particles at LHCb	(pdf)
Chaira Farinelli	2014	Performance of the LHCb Vertex Locator and Flavour Tagging Studies for the Measurement of the CKM Angle gamma	(pdf)
Serena Oggero	2013	Beauty in the crowd: Commissioning of the LHCb Pile-Up detector and first evidence of Bs0 -> mu+ mu-	(pdf)
Alexandr Kozlinskiy	2013	Outer Tracker calibration and open charm production cross section measurement at LHCb	(pdf)
Daan van Eijk	2012	Ageing and the decay of beauty: Radiation hardness of the LHCb outer tracker and time-dependent CP violation using Bs->J/PsiPhi decay	(pdf)
Barbara Storaci	2012	First determination of the fragmentation fraction ratio of fs/fd with tree level hadronic decays at 7 TeV pp collisions	(pdf)
Fabian Jansen	2011	Unfolding single-particle efficiencies and the Outer Tracker of the LHCb	(pdf)
Jan Amoraal	2011	Alignment with Kalman filter fitted tracks and reconstruction of Bs->J/PsiPhi decays	(pdf)
Corijn Snippe	2011	Design and optimization of vertex detector foils by superplastic forming	(pdf)
Tristan du Pree	2010	Search for a strange phase in beautiful oscillations	(pdf)
Eduard Simioni	2010	New physics from rare beauty	(pdf)
Gabriel Ybeles Smit	2010	Asymmetries in the decay of beauty	(pdf)
Edwin Bos	2010	Reconstruction of charged particles in the LHCb experiment	(pdf)
Aras Papadelis	2009	Characterisation and commissioning of the LHCb VELO detector	(pdf)
Hella Snoek	2009	Suppressed charmed B decays	(pdf)
Peter Vankov	2008	Study of the B-meson lifetime and the performance of the outer tracker at LHCb	(pdf)
Jacopo Nardulli	2007	Reconstruction of two-body B decays in LHCb	(pdf)
Max Baak	2007	Measurement of CKM-angle gamma with charmed B0 meson decays	(pdf)
Bart Hommels	2006	The tracker in the trigger of LHCb	(pdf)

Master theses

Name	Year	Title	Thesis	Supervisor
Valeriia Lukashenko	2019	Long lived heavy neutrinos in W ? ? ? jet decays	(pdf)	Wouter Hulsbergen
Jordy Butter	2018	Branching fraction measurement of B0 -> Ds+ pi-	(pdf)	Niels Tuning
Marinda Tervoert	2018	First observation of the decay Lb0 -> Ds- p	(pdf)	Niels Tuning
Mick Mulder	2015	Measuring the decay B0 -> Ds pi+ with sensitivity for the b-->u quark transition	(pdf)	Niels Tuning
Elise Loebker	2015	Search for long-lived exotic particles decaying to muon pairs	(pdf)	Wouter Hulsbergen
Lennaert Bel	2014	Measurement of the branching fractions of B0s -> DsK�, B0s -> Dspi+ and B0 -> DsK+	(pdf)	Niels Tuning
Jesse Mesman	2013	Branching fraction measurement of the B0s->D0KS decay	(pdf)	Wouter Hulsbergen
Jacco de Vries	2013	First observation of the decay Bc+ -> B0s pi+	(pdf)	Niels Tuning
Suzanne Klaver	2013	A Search for Long-lived Neutralinos in LHCb	(pdf)	Wouter Hulsbergen
Isha Savani	2012	Angular Observables of B0->K*0 mu+ mu- from Quantum Field Theoretical Methods	(pdf)	Jeroen van Leerdam, Marcel Merk, Piet Mulders
Akshay Katre	2011	Pions Misidentified as Muons in the LHCb Detector	(pdf)	Thomas Bauer
Roel Aaij	2010	Cosmics in the LHCb Outer tracker	(pdf)	Thomas Bauer
Erwin Visser	2010	Preventing, monitoring and curing the ageing in the LHCb Outer Tracker	(pdf)	Niels Tuning
Mathieu Blom	2009	Ageing of the LHCb outer tracker	(pdf)	Niels Tuning
Ivan Mous	2008	Ageing in the LHCb outer tracker	(pdf)	Niels Tuning
Loek Hooft van Huisduijnen	2008	Proper Time Resolution Model for Bs0->J/psi phi in the LHCb Experiment	(pdf)	Tristan du Pree, Gerhard Raven
Thijs Versloot	2007	Angled Tracks through the LHCb Velo Silicon Sensors	(pdf)	Eddy Jans, Aras Papadelis
Anne Keune	2007	Pattern recognition Comparison: Generic vs Standard	(pdf)	Tjeerd Ketel
Shirit Cohen	2007	Sensitivity studies for the CKM matrix parameter gamma+phi_s at LHCb	(pdf)	Marcel Merk
Jan Amoraal	2005	Panning for the Golden Decay B0s->J/PsiPhi at LHCb	(pdf)	Marcel Merk

Bachelor projects

Name	Year	Title	Thesis	Supervisor
Maarten Buffing	2009	Outgassing of glue in the Outer Tracker of LHCb; measurements with a quadrupole mass spectrometer	(pdf)	Tjeerd Ketel
Koen Oussoren	2008	Sensitivity Study for Bs Mixing Parameter DeltaGamma and the CP-violation Parameter gamma at LHCb	(pdf)	Marcel Merk
Roel Aaij	2007	Mixing in the Bs-Bsbar system	(pdf)	Thomas Bauer, Marcel Merk
Aras Papadelis	2004	Analogue cross-talk measurements with 55Fe on the LHCb Outer Tracker	(pdf)	Niels Tuning