Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
GSI

ALICE

ISOQUANT

List of Theses

Date Degree Student Title Field
2023-09 Bachelor thesis Lisa Kümmerer "Optimization of CBM physics performance for Xi− baryon yield measurements with machine learning techniques" CBM data analysis
2023-08 Bachelor thesis Anouk Kaiser "Tracking low momentum protons with the ALICE Pixel Detector" Hardware
Detector development
2023-08 Bachelor thesis Johannes Hensler "Simulation of proton reaction cross-section measurements using ALPIDE monolithic active pixel sensors" Hardware
Detector development
2023-07 Master thesis Marius Menzel "Energy-straggling analysis of the Digital Pixel Test Structure, a MAPS prototype produced in 65 nm TPSCo CMOS technology towards ALICE ITS3" Hardware
Detector development
2023-07 Master thesis David Schledewitz "Characterization of APTS, an analog MAPS test structure fabricated in 65 nm CMOS technology" Hardware
Detector development
2023-06 Bachelor thesis Mika Holzem "Free-streaming approach to linearized fluid dynamics in heavy-ion collisions" Phenomenology studies
ISOQUANT
2023-06 Bachelor thesis Phil Stahlhut "Performance test of the KF Particle package" ALICE data analysis
2023-04 Bachelor thesis Fabian Königstein "Simulation and analysis of cluster shapes in the ALPIDE monolithic active pixel sensor" Hardware
Detector development
2023-03 Bachelor thesis Christian Kleiber "Feasibility study of the non-prompt Λc+ → pK−π+ analysis in p–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV with ALICE" ALICE data analysis
2023-02 Bachelor thesis Sarah Liedtke "Feasibility study of Ξ+c in proton-lead collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector" ALICE data analysis
2022-12 Bachelor thesis Franziska Masuch "Fluid description of charged hadron production in xenon-xenon collisions at √sNN = 5.44 TeV" Phenomenology studies
ISOQUANT
2022-12 Master thesis Yannis Seeman "Multidimensional parameter optimization in fluid dynamic simulations of heavy-ion collisions" Phenomenology studies
ISOQUANT
2022-09 Bachelor thesis Jan Hubrich "Analysis of the influence from prompt Xi_c^+ hadrons on the Primary Vertex in Simulated Data" ALICE data analysis
2022-08 Master thesis Carolina Reetz "Measurement of Xi_c^+ in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=13TeV with the ALICE detector" ALICE data analysis
2021-11 Bachelor thesis Simon Groß-Bölting "Measurement of the Lambda_c^+ production in proton-proton collisions for Lambda_c^+ to pK_s^0 at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector" ALICE data analysis
2021-05 Master thesis Pascal Becht "Performance and characterisation of bent monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS) for the application in future tracking detectors using the example of the ALPIDE chip" Hardware
Detector development
2021-05 Master thesis Annalena Kalteyer "Reconstruction of Lambda_c^+ in p-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector" ALICE data analysis
2021-03 Bachelor thesis Maurice Donner "Tracking Cosmic Muons with the ALICE Pixel Detector - A Study of Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors and Telescope Alignment" Hardware
Detector development
2021-02 Bachelor thesis David Schledewitz "Measurement of the rate and angular distribution of cosmic muons with an ALPIDE telescope" Hardware
Detector development
2020-12 Bachelor thesis Anton Eberhardt "Strategy for measuring the mass of hypertriton with the ALICE detector" ALICE data analysis
2020-11 Bachelor thesis Sarah Görlitz "Impact of initial conditions on integrated particle yields from Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV and 5.02 TeV" Phenomenology studies
ISOQUANT
2020-10 Bachelor thesis Christian Sonnabend "On the influence of temperature-dependent eta/s on transverse-momentum particle spectra in heavy-ion collisions" Phenomenology studies
ISOQUANT
2019-12 Master thesis Bogdan Blidaru "Discharge propagation in double-GEM detectors" Hardware
Detectors
2019-12 Bachelor thesis Carolina Reetz "Reconstruction of the Hadronic Decay of the Xic0 Baryon with the ALICE Detector -- Investigation of Charm Production and Validation of the KF Particle Package" ALICE data analysis
2019-09 Bachelor thesis Yannis Seemann "Production of (anti-)deuterons in Pb-Pb collisions and via the spallation process" ALICE data analysis
2019-08 Master thesis Michael Ciupek "Electrons from semi-leptonic decays of heavy-flavour hadrons at mid-rapidity and low transverse momenta in pp collisions at s = 5.02 TeV" ALICE data analysis
2019-03 Master thesis Daniel Baitinger "Secondary discharge studies in a single-GEM detector in the scope of the ALICE TPC upgrade" Hardware
Detectors
2018-04 Bachelor thesis Pascal Becht "Quality assurance of gas electron multiplier foils for the ALICE TPC upgrade via leakage current measurements" Hardware
Detectors
2018-04 Bachelor thesis Alissa Fink "Mass difference between matter and anti-matter" ALICE data analysis
2017-12 Master thesis Lukas Layer "Beauty production in Pb-Pb with the ALICE experiment at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV" ALICE data analysis
2017-10 Master thesis Thomas Rudzki "Commissioning and testing of large-area GEM-based readout chambers for the high-rate ALICE TPC" Hardware
Detectors
2017-09 Master thesis Mattia Faggin (Universita' di Padova) "Misura di elettroni da decadimenti di adroni con charm e beauty in collisioni Pb-Pb a LHC con ALICE" ALICE data analysis
2017-02 Bachelor thesis Alexandra Datz "Studies on secondary discharges and their mitigation with a two GEM detector" Hardware
Detectors
2017-02 Bachelor thesis Manuel Jahn "Quality assurance for gas electron multipliers with the leakage current test"
2016-12 Bachelor thesis Michael Ciupek "Electron identification in different colliding systems with ALICE" ALICE data analysis
2016-11 Master thesis Sebastian Hornung "Study of heavy-flavor hadron production in pp collisions with ALICE" ALICE data analysis
2015-03 Bachelor thesis Lukas Layer "Development of a fast simulation tool for vertexing studies in ALICE" ALICE data analysis
Software development
2014-10 Bachelor thesis Sebastian Hornung "New criteria for distinguishing hadrons containing beauty from hadrons with charm in proton-proton collisions with sqrt(s)=7 TeV at ALICE" ALICE data analysis

In preparation

Degree Student Working Title Field
Bachelor thesis Alica Enderich "Photon analysis in ALICE" ALICE data analysis
Master thesis Rafet Kavak "Bayesian parameter estimation of quark-gluon plasma using transverse momentum spectra and flow observables" Phenomenology studies
ISOQUANT
Master thesis Rossana Facen "Study of charm quark thermalization in the Quark Gluon Plasma produced at RHIC" Phenomenology studies
ISOQUANT
Master thesis Bent Buttwill "Data aquisition and readout" Hardware
Detector development
Master thesis Maurice Donner "" Hardware
Detector development
Bachelor thesis Tim Weinreich "Strangeness reconstruction studies with the KFParticle package in ALICE Run 3 data" ALICE data analysis
Bachelor thesis Philip Quicker "J/psi measurement with the KFParticle package in ALICE Run 3 data" ALICE data analysis



PhD Theses

Date Student Title Field
2021-11 Alena Gromada "Inclusive J/psi production in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV with ALICE" ALICE data analysis
2021-08 Lukas Kreis "Investigating the Initial State of Heavy-Ion Collisions through Measurements of Anisotropic Flow using Spectator Neutrons with ALICE at the LHC" ALICE data analysis
2020-07 Sebastian Hornung "Production of (anti-)^3He, (anti-)^3H in p-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN)=5.02TeV measured with ALICE at the LHC" ALICE data analysis
2018-06 Tonatiuh Jimenez Bustamante "Inclusive J/psi production at mid-rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV" ALICE data analysis
2018-02 Alexander Deisting "Measurements of ion mobility and GEM discharge studies for the upgrade of the ALICE time projection chamber" Hardware
Detector development

In preparation

Student Working Title Field
Bogdan Blidaru "Bent Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors ALPIDE" Hardware
Detector development
Michael Ciupek "Directed flow of identified particles in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC" ALICE data analysis and phenomenology (ISOQUANT)
Federica Capellino "Heavy quarks in the fluid dynamic description of heavy-ion collisions" Phenomenology studies
ISOQUANT
Pascal Becht "Bent ALPIDE sensors and new MAPS technologies for the ALICE ITS 3" Hardware
Detector development
Federica Zanone "Investigation of Omega_c production in ALICE" ALICE data analysis
Carolina Reetz "Investigation of (hyper-)nuclei production in ALICE" ALICE data analysis
Christian Sonnabend "Neural networks for clusterisation and tracking in the ALICE TPC" Detector calibration
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