08.128.80105 Seminar II - Nuclear and Particle Physics

Instructors: Dr. Christian Schmitt

Event type: online: Seminar

Displayed in timetable as:

Hours per week: 2

Credits: 4,0

Language of instruction: Englisch

Min. | Max. participants: - | -

Requirements / organisational issues:
The seminar talks will start during the first week of the term. Every student has to book a topic as soon as possible. The timetable for the individual talks will be announced during the term break. 

Assignment of seminar topics is done on the web-based e-learning platform ILIAS. All students of this seminar are required to enrol to ILIAS using the following link and to join the group "Seminar II - Nuclear and Particle Physics": 

https://ilias.uni-mainz.de/goto.php?target=crs_731788&client_id=JOGU

Important: 

• the enrolment in ILIAS does not replace the enrolment in Jogustine, therefore please make sure that you also register for this seminar in Jogustine!!!
  

Contents:
Possible seminar topics: 

• A Gem of a Detector for High Precision Tracking 
  
• Boosted heavy particle decays - disentangling cuddling quarks
  
• Catching the Light: Single Photon Counters 
  
• Charge Distribution of the Neutron 
  
• CP Violation with B Mesons 
  
• Current Measurements of the Higgs Boson with ATLAS
  
• Dark Matter Searches at the Intensity Frontier
  
• Dark Photon Searches with Beam-Dump Experiments
  
• Determination of Neutrino Masses in the Cosmos 
  
• Determination of Neutrino Masses in the Laboratory 
  
• Direct Search for Dark Matter 
  
• Discretization and Path Integrals
  
• Energy Measurement with Calorimeters of Highest Granularity 
  
• Evidence of Iron-60 from past Supernovae in deep-ocean ferromanganese crusts
  
• Exotic decays of the Higgs boson
  
• Experiments on Neutron Skins of Nuclei 
  
• Experiments with Electron Scattering at MESA 
  
• Extended Higgs sectors
  
• FPGAs as Algorithmic Processors
  
• FPGAs for Multi-Gigabit Fiberoptic Data Transmission 
  
• Geometric Aspects of Hamilton Mechanics
  
• Gravitational waves (focus on experiment)
  
• Gravitational Waves (focus on theory) 
  
• Higgs boson mass and width 
  
• High Precision Measurements of Kaon Decays 
  
• Mass Matrices and Mass Diagonalization 
  
• Neutrino Astronomy 
  
• Neutron star and the equation of state of dense matter
  
• New Physics in Parity Violation 
  
• Online Track Reconstruction 
  
• Physics with photons at MAMI 
  
• Precision Tests of the Electroweak Sector after Higgs 
  
• Production and Detection of Dark Matter at LHC 
  
• QCD Phase Diagram 
  
• Quark Confinement 
  
• Search for Exotic Nuclear Structures at Radioactive-Ion Beam Facilities
  
• Search for Extra Dimensions (and more) at LHC 
  
• Search for Lepton Flavour Violation 
  
• Search for new physics by a high precision measurement of the weak mixing angle
  
• Search for New Physics with the Top Quark 
  
• Search for Particles of a Dark Sector at MESA
  
• Spin and CP properties of the Higgs Boson 
  
• Strange Nuclei 
  
• Symmetries in Quantum Mechanics - The Wigner Theorem 
  
• The Future of Radioactive-Ion Beam Facilities: What can we expect from FAIR, FRIB and RIBF
  
• The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment 
  
• The nucleosynthesis of the elements
  
• The Proton Radius Puzzle 
  
• The Solar Neutrino Puzzle 
  
• The Spin Puzzle of the Nucleon 
  
• The WIMP miracle (Dark Matter Theory)
  
• Ultrafast silicon detectors for precise time measurements