Master Seminar SS19

Particle Physics at the Turnaround:
Recent Highlights and Future Prospects

Mandatory Advanced Seminar (6 CP)
Summer term 2019
Fridays: 14:15
Room: INF 227 3.403
First Meeting: April 26th

Dr. Martino Borsato
borsato@physi.uni-heidelberg.de
 Priv. Doz. Dr. Felix Sefkow
felix.sefkow@desy.de
 Dr. Rainer Stamen
stamen@kip.uni-heidelberg.de

Content
The goal of the seminar is to discuss some of the recent results at the forefront of particle physics. The topics range from important precision measurements at the LHC, over searches for dark matter to lepton and quark flavour physics. In addition we will discuss future experiments which are currently in the planning phase. The emphasis will be on experimental aspects.

Prerequisite for this seminar is the Particle Physics Master Course or a Bachelor Thesis in particle physics. The seminar consists of the oral presentation of a research topic and a write-up of the talk. (see Master Modulhanbuch) Presentations early in the semester are particularly appreciated.

Registration
The talks are distributed on a first come first served basis. In order to register for the seminar, send an email to one of the lecturers or come to the first meeting April 26th.

Available Topics
    Measurements at the LHC
  1. Higgs couplings to heavy quarks - establishing the Higgs mechanism for fermions
  2. Higgs mass and width: fundamental parameters from the LHC
  3. Measurement of the W mass: Precision from the LHC
  4. Precision Measurement of the top-Quark mass

    5. Searches for Dark Matter
  5. Search for Wimp Dark matter at LHC
  6. Dark photon searches at the LHC
  7. Direct Search for Dark Matter with the Xenon1T detector

    8. Lepton and Quark Flavour Physics
  8. Breaking the lepton universality paradigm with b-quark semileptonic decays
  9. Hints of new physics in the precise analysis of rare B decays
  10. Search for Lepton Flavour Violation with the MEG and the Mu3e experiments
  11. Evidence for Sterile Neutrinos? 

    12. Future Experiments     
  12. Probing indirectly new physics with 1013 kaons at NA62
  13. The Physics Potential of the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment Dune
  14. The search for hidden particles at the intensity frontier with the SHiP experiment
  15. The Physics at Future e+e-Colliders: Precision Measurements of Higgs Parameters and More

Schedule

26.4   Preliminary Discussion (M.B., F.S., R.S.) 
  3.5   Direct Search for Dark Matter with the Xenon1T detector (D.W.)
10.5   Evidence for Sterile Neutrinos? (J.G.)
17.5   Measurement of the W mass: Precision from the LHC (A.K.)
24.5   Precision Measurement of the top-Quark mass (N.K.)
31.5
  7.6   Higgs Couplings to Heavy Quarks (R.C.) 
14.6   Dark photon searches at the LHC (I.F., TBC)
21.6   Probing indirectly new physics with 1013 kaons at NA62 (P.C.)
28.6
  5.7
12.7
19.7.
26.7.