Research Internships in Particle Physics
This is a list of some of the available topics. If you are interested in a specific topic not on this list, please refer to the homepage of the groups to find out about current research and contact the researchers involved. Note that in the case of experiments, not all experiments may have the capacity for a student at all times, please plan ahead and contact us early.
The Research Internships in Particle Physics are coordinated by Eckhard von Toerne, who should be contacted prior to the internship.
Particle Physics
| Project Title | Research Group | Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| Measurement of Fragmentation Functions from COMPASS Data | F. Klein | link |
| Online Software for the COMPASS Trigger System | F. Klein | link |
| Time Resolution of a Scintillation Counter with Sampled Analog Signals | F. Klein | link |
| Application of advanced statistical methods to Higgs searches at the LHC | Wermes | link |
| Searches for the Higgs Boson in vector boson fusion events with ATLAS | Wermes | link |
| Modern integrated Electronics for Particle Physics Experiments | Wermes | link |
| Top quark reconstruction with the ATLAS Detector | Wermes | link |
| Reconstruction of Z-Boson decays to tau-lepton pairs as a pre-study to Higgs searches at the LHC | Wermes | link |
| Measurements with ATLAS-Pixel detector modules | Wermes | link |
| Simulation studies for the Super-LHC Upgrade of the ATLAS Inner Detector | Wermes | link |
| Measurement of time resolution and detection efficiency of particle detectors | Schmieden | link |
| Monte Carlo simulation of hadronic reactions and particle tracking through detectors | Schmieden | link |
| Analysis of current data of the Crystal-Barrel experiment at ELSA | Schmieden | link |
| Research Internships at the ELSA accelerator | Hillert | link |
| Top quark mass measurement with the ATLAS detector | Brock | link |
| Reconstruction of W and Z bosons as backgrounds for top-quark searches with the ATLAS detector | Brock | link |
| Search for single top in the Wt-channel with the ATLAS detector | Brock | link |
| Secondary vertex tagging in ZEUS | Brock | link |
| Determination of trigger efficiencies | F. Klein | link |
| Studying different estimators to determine an asymmetry | F. Klein | link |
| Analysis of data from a time projection chamber prototype | Desch | link |
| "Nuts and bolts" of a time projection chamber | Desch | link |
| Measuring Supersymmetry in events with tau-leptons | Desch | link |
| Applications of Energy Flow methods for tau-lepton identification at the LHC | Desch | link |
| Crystal Barrel experiment at the Electron Stretcher facility (ELSA) | Beck, Klein, Schmieden, Thoma | link |
| Analysis of IceCube data | Kowalski | link |
| New light sensors for neutrino telescopes | Kowalski | link |
| Cosmic ray measurements at the South Pole | Kowalski | link |
Theoretical Physics Topics
| Project Title | Research Group | Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| Calculation of Feynman Diagrams in the Standard Model or in Supersymmetry | Drees/Dreiner | link |
| Lattice simulations of the phase structure of U(1) gauge theory | Meißner | link |
| Extraction of the light quark mass ratios | Meißner/Kubis | link |
| Unitarization of scalar field theory | Meißner | link |
| Hadronic vacuum polarisation and the muon g-2 | Kubis | link |
| Calculation of the Neutralino-Nucleon Scattering Cross Section | Drees | link |
| Calculation of the WIMP Relic Density | Drees | link |
| Signals for Supersymmetry at the LHC | Drees | link |