Zurich PhD seminar 2019

9 Oct 2019, 09:00 → 10 Oct 2019, 19:00 Europe/Zurich

Paul Scherrer Institut

Klaus Stefan Kirch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

PhD seminar for Zurich area PhD students. There are 30 talks from the groups of UZH, ETHZ, and PSI PhD students, covering a wide variety of topics from collider physics to ultra cold neutrons, particle beams, and detector R&D.

 

The seminars will be held at the Paul Scherrer Institut - Auditorium, WHGA/001

Wednesday 9 October

09:00 → 10:30 Session 1

Convener: Adrian Signer

09:00 The Extreme Blazar 1ES2344

Speaker: Axel Arbet-Engels

09:20 muCool: Towards a high-brightness ultra-cold positive muon beam line at PSI

Speaker: Ryoto Iwai (ETH Zurich)

ZurichPhD19_iwai.pdf

09:40 Considerations for a caesium magnetometer array for the n2EDM experiment

Speaker: Duarte Pais

10:00 Associated Higgs boson production via flavour tagging in NNLOJET

Speaker: Imre Majer

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:40 Session 2

Convener: Florencia Canelli

11:00 ZZ and WW production at the LHC

Speaker: JY Yook

11:20 Laser System for the Measurement of the Hyperfine-Splitting in Muonic Hydrogen

Speaker: Manuel Zeyen

11:40 Study of Future 3D Calorimetry Based on LYSO or LaBrCe Crystals for High Precision Physics

Speaker: Patrick Schwendimann

SchwendimannPatrick.pdf

12:00 Ultracold neutron production and extraction from the solid deuterium converter of the PSI UCN source

Speaker: Ingo Rienäcker (PSI)

IR_UCN_PHDSeminar2019.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session 3

Convener: Andreas Crivellin

14:00 Radiation-hard Electron Monitor for ESA JUICE mission

Speaker: Patryk Socha (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

PhD_seminar_Patryk_Socha.pdf

14:20 Probing non-standard flavour and helicity structures in semi-leptonic B decays

Speaker: Julie Pages

U2Bdecays.pdf

14:40 Diamond pixel fabrication

Speaker: Diego Sanz-Becerra

DA_PHD_sem_20191009.pdf

15:00 Hunting for B -> K tau tau imprints on the B -> K mu mu dimuon spectrum

Speaker: Claudia Cornella

cornella.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Session 4

Convener: Ben Kilminster

16:00 Measurement of the ttbb production cross section in the all-jet final state with the CMS detector

Speaker: Vinicius Mikuni

ttbb_PhD_seminar.pdf

16:20 Angular Analysis of the B->K*ee decay

Speaker: Zhenzi Wang

wang.pdf

16:40 Probing New Physics with full hadronic and large missing energy signatures using the MT2 variable in p-p collisions at \sqrt{s} = 13 TeV

Speaker: Anne-Mazerine Lyon

19_10_09_PhDSeminar_Talk_AMLyon.pdf

17:00 → 18:00 PSI Experiment Tours

Conveners: Ingo Rienäcker (PSI), Jonas Kallestrup (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Patrick Schwendimann

18:00 → 20:00 Barbeque

Thursday 10 October

09:00 → 10:40 Session 5

Convener: Günther Dissertori

09:00 Search for dijet resonances in events with three jets in the final state from proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

Speaker: Danyyl Brzhechko

phd_seminar_dijet.pdf

09:20 A 2.6 m tall TPC for the DARWIN demonstrator

Speaker: Frédéric Girard

F_Girard_PhD seminar.pdf

09:40 ttH-> bb

Speaker: Christina Reissel

Christina_PhDSeminar_final.pdf

10:00 Towards more precise predictions for ttH and ttZ production at the LHC

Speaker: Ignacio Fabre

Fabre - Zurich PhD Seminar .pdf

10:20 Search for Axion-like particles with the nEDM spectrometer at PSI

Speaker: Pin-Jung Chiu

ZurichPhdSeminar2019_PJC.pptx

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 12:50 Session 6

Convener: Michael Spira

11:10 100-micron LGAD pixel detectors with 30 ps timing resolution

Speaker: Riccardo del Burgo

11:30 Emittance exchange by coupling resonance crossing in the SLS booster

Speaker: Jonas Kallestrup (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

JonasKallestrup_EmittanceExchangebyCouplingResonanceCrossing.pptx

11:50 XURICH II – First dual-phase xenon TPC with SiPM readout and its low energy calibration with 37-Ar

Speaker: Kevin Thieme

PhD_Seminar_PSI_2019_Kevin_Thieme_UZH.pdf

12:10 The detection system for the measurement of the hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen

Speaker: Laura Paulina Sinkunaite

Sinkunaite_Zurich_PhD_2019.pdf

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:57 Session 7

Convener: Paolo Crivelli (ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics)

14:00 R&D towards the muon EDM search at PSI: beam characterisation and detector studies

Speaker: Mikio Sakurai (ETH Zürich)

PhD_seminar_2019_MS.pdf

14:20 A multi-pass optical cavity for the HyperMu experiment

Speaker: Miroslaw Marszalek

2019-10-10_PhD_Seminar_Zurich_Marszalek.pdf

14:40 NNLO corrections in massive QED

Speaker: Tim Engel (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

talk_timengel.pdf

15:00 Search for third-generation leptoquarks with CMS

Speaker: Izaak Neutelings

Leptoquarks_PhDSeminar_2019.pdf

15:20 Probing nucleus-neutrino interactions using the T2K off-axis near detector

Speaker: Kevin Fusshoeller

KF_PhD_Seminar.pdf