Abstracts

Nanoporous gold (NPG) is the structure resultant from dealloying an Ag-rich AgAu alloy. It displays a high specific surface area, high electrical conductivity and good mechanical properties, making it very interesting for sensing and actuating applications [1]. [...]

Infrastructure needed for the solution characterization of reconstituted membrane proteins (MPs) has been designed and implemented at the iNEXT partner synchrotron facilities Petra-III (P12, EMBL-HH) and SOLEIL (SWING, SOLEIL). HT-SEC-SAXS systems are now optimized for purification and screening and rapid structural data collection of MPs. [...]

Minerals of the feldspar group are the most common minerals in the Earth’s crust. Due to their high geological relevance, numerous X-ray diffraction studies at non-ambient conditions (high temperature (HT) and / or pressure (HP)) have been performed with detailed studies focused on orthoclase, sanidine, microcline, albite, and anorthite. [...]

Magnetic molecules are envisaged as functional units in the molecular and supramolecular spintronic devices for future information technology. An essential first step in the implementation of the molecular systems in devices is the study and control of the molecule-electrode interfaces. [...]

The hairy attachment system of spiders enables these animals to walkupside-down on rough and smooth surfaces without the use of glue.These outstanding biological structures comprise of pads includinghundreds to thousands of specially designed hairs that are made ofcomposite materials consisting of proteins and reinforcing chitin fibres.The goal of our study is to gain an in-depth understanding of thestructure-function mechanism of the attachment and detachment processesof single hairs to a surface. X-ray Tomographic Microscopy andScanning X-ray nanobeam diffraction are ideal tools to reveal the innerstructure of the spider hairs and allow to determine the gradient of themechanical properties which is essential for the attachment process.With both techniques we found that the shaft of the attachment hairis hollow. [...]

Many supersymmetric models feature gauginos and also sleptons withmasses less than a few hundred GeV. These can give rise to direct pairproduction rates at the LHC that can be observed in the data samplerecorded by the ATLAS detector [...]

QCD evolution equations can be recast in terms of parton branching processes. We present a newnumerical solution of the equations and show, that this method reproduces the semi-analytical solutions.We discuss numerical effects of the kinematic boundary of resolvable branchings on the resultingparton distribution functions. [...]

This talk will describe searches for Higgs bosons decaying into two b-quarks at the ATLAS and CMSexperiments, presenting the analysis methods and results. Emphasis will also be put on the QCDaspects that are relevant for the analyses..

We present measurements of multi-differential Jet cross sections over a wide range in transversemomenta from inclusive jets to multi-jet final states. We present studies on the impact these measurementshave on the determination of the strong coupling alphas as well as on parton densityfunctions. [...]

The talk reviews the measurements of the 125 GeV Higgs boson in several final states, performedby the CMS collaboration. The main focus is on results obtained with data from LHC proton-protoncollisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV..