Diploma and Ph.D. projects

Diploma and Ph.D. projects at HERA-B

Writing the Diploma or Ph.D. thesis at HERA-B is the opportunity to work at the frontier of fundamental research and the possibility to become an expert in data analysis and methods of experimental and theoretical particle physics.

The work is foreseen to be in close contact with the international HERA-B Collaboration at DESY including traveling to Hamburg in order to know the experiment and take advantage of the local expertise.

The subjects of diploma and doctoral thesis are connected with the projects of the group within the HERA-B experiment Collaboration, which is the analysis of HERA-B data 2002 and includes investigation and/or Monte Carlo simulation of physics processes such as:

Charmonium production
Production cross-section of b-quarks
Measurements of heavy flavor production in nuclear matter, studies of B-hadrons (examples: B-baryons searches, B_S mixing, rare decays), charmonium spectroscopy e.g. search for, h_c(1P₁), |ccg>, studies of charm mesons (e.g. D mixing) are also among the pssible topics.
Study of $\eta$ and $\eta'$ centrally produced at HERA-B

You are welcome to contact F.Ould-Saada or T.Buran or anybody from Oslo University HERA-B group.

List of ongoing activities and plans in the Oslo HERA-B group:

Name Field of interest Supervisor Comments

Andreas Christensen Analysis of $\Chi_c$ production Farid Ould-Saada Diploma

Yuriy Pylypchenko Heavy quark production at HERA-B,
Analysis of K⁰ production
Farid Ould-Saada,
Torleiv Buran
Ph.D.

K.M.Danielsen Angle distribution of the final state protons in the
pp -> p $\eta$ p reaction - -

Analysis tools

ARTE: Event Reconstruction and Analysis Tool for HERA-B (OO: C++,STL) (A very nice and short introduction in ARTE could be found here)
ROOT: Object-Oriented Data Analysis framework
PAW: Physics Analysis Workstation

An exmaple of a ROOT macro (reading file, creating histogram and histogram fit). The result of this macro is here

Yuriy Pylypchenko

Last modified: Wed Apr 17 22:55:50 CEST 2002

Name	Field of interest	Supervisor	Comments
Andreas Christensen	Analysis of $\Chi_c$ production	Farid Ould-Saada	Diploma
Yuriy Pylypchenko	Heavy quark production at HERA-B, Analysis of K⁰ production	Farid Ould-Saada, Torleiv Buran	Ph.D.
K.M.Danielsen	Angle distribution of the final state protons in the pp -> p $\eta$ p reaction	-	-