Master Theses

Palladium nanoparticles are widely studied in various fields of science. In biology, Pd parti-cles are studied for possible medical applications, in chemistry the particles are often synthe-sised in solution and then applied to a support via, for example, spin coating. [...]

Catalysts have a wide field of applications, for example, they play an important rolein producing chemicals and for renewable energies. Thus it is of great interest tomake them more efficient and to increase their lifetime [...]

The Tangerine group at DESY, Hamburg, investigates the potential of Monolithic Active PixelSensors (MAPS) manufactured in a novel 65 nm CMOS imaging process with small collectionelectrode design, as a candidate technology for vertex and tracking detectors in future leptoncollider experiments. One of the activities undertaken to explore the technology is the char-acterisation of prototypes through the analysis of test beam measurements. [...]

Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) produced in CMOS image sensor (CIS) technology are a promising candidate for meeting the stringent requirements for vertex detectors at future lepton colliders. Recently, a 65 nm CIS process has become available to the high-energy physics community, offering enhanced integration density and lowered power consumption. [...]

We present a precision computation of the trilinear Higgs boson self-coupling \(\lambda_{hhh}\) in the Standard Model (SM) and the Type-II Two-Higgs-Doublet-Model (\text{THDM}) in the alignment limit, both with vanishing external momenta for the vertex, employing a fully on-shell renormalization scheme. Our analysis includes all one-loop corrections and, for the first time to our knowledge, the dominant two-loop top- and bottom-Yukawa contributions of \(\mathcal{O}(N_c^2)\). [...]

A top priority of future collider programs is to measure the value of the Higgs self-coupling λ. Through double Higgs production (ZHH), this is possible by direct measurement at lepton col-liders. [...]

The 2012 discovery of the 12 GeV Higgs boson at the LHC, and of no other particle since then, have brought a consensus to the particle physics community that an e+e- Higgs factory is the highest priority next collider. However, Higgs measurements suffer from the loss of undetected neutrino energy due to semi-leptonic decays (SLDs) in the most common decay mode H to b anti-b. [...]

The probabilistic nature of photoemission, combined with the exploration of large multidimensional parameter spaces–including momentum, energy, time and spin polarization–necessitates time-intensive data acquisition to ensure statistical robustness. These measurements are especially important for capturing ultrafast phenomena, where pulsed light sources, such as free-electron lasers (FELs), become indispensable due to their ability to deliver high-brightness, ultrashort X-ray pulses. [...]

The Phase II upgrade of the ATLAS detector will prepare it to handle the 2.5–fold increase in instantaneous luminosity of the High Luminosity LHC project starting in 2028. The upgrade will also involve the tracking sub-system of the ATLAS detector to be replaced by the Inner Tracker (ITk), which is made up of a closer-to-beam-line Pixel and acircumscribing Strip detector. [...]

The international particle physics community has identified an e+e− Higgs factory as the highest-priority next collider. Such a facility would enable the production of a substantial number ofW bosons. [...]