08.128.80105 Seminar II - Nuclear and Particle Physics

Instructors: Dr. Christian Schmitt

Event type: Seminar

Displayed in timetable as: 08.128.80105

Hours per week: 2

Credits: 4,0

Language of instruction: Englisch

Min. | Max. participants: - | -

Requirements / organisational issues:
There will be a meeting on Wednesday, July 20th, at 16:00 in the Lorentz-Room to distribute the seminar topics.

Please send an email to schmittc AT uni-mainz.de with a prioritised list of your desired topics (minimum 2, maximum 5) well in advance of the meeting.

Contents:
The following topics can be chosen:

• 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 
  
• Dark Matter 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
  
• 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 
  
• Gauge Anomaly Cancellation in the Standard Model
  
• Geometric Aspects of Hamilton Mechanics
  
• Gravitational waves (focus on experiment)
  
• Gravitational Waves (focus on theory) 
  
• Heavy Ion Collisions and the Recreation of the Big Bang
  
• Higgs boson mass and width 
  
• High Precision Measurements of Kaon Decays 
  
• Is lepton flavour universality violated?
  
• Mass Matrices and Mass Diagonalization 
  
• Neutrino Astronomy 
  
• Neutron star and the equation of state of dense matter
  
• Online Track Reconstruction 
  
• Physics with photons at MAMI 
  
• Precision Tests of the Standard Model of Particle physics Sector after Higgs 
  
• Production and Detection of Dark Matter at LHC 
  
• 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 and strange Atoms
  
• 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 g-2: a strong indication for New Physics?
  
• The nucleosynthesis of the elements
  
• The Proton Radius Puzzle 
  
• The quest for axions, searching for (pseudo)scalar particles from µeV to GeV mass scales
  
• The search for the tetraneutron: Can four neutrons stick together?
  
• The Solar Neutrino Puzzle 
  
• The Spin Puzzle of the Nucleon 
  
• The Strong CP Problem
  
• The WIMP miracle (Dark Matter Theory)
  
• Ultrafast silicon detectors for precise time measurements