Publications database

Recent breakthroughs in AI-driven protein structure prediction have revolutionized structural biology, unlocking new possibilities to model complex biomolecular interactions. We evaluated widely used scoring metrics for assessing models predicted by ColabFold with templates, ColabFold without templates, and AlphaFold3 [...]

Excited-state contamination remains one of the leading sources of systematic uncertainty in the precise determination of hadron structure observables from lattice QCD. In this letter, we present a general argument, inspired by meson dominance ideas and implemented through the variational method, to identify which excited states are enhanced by the choice of the inserted current and kinematics. [...]

The European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) reflects the vision and presents concrete plans of the European particle physics community for advancing human knowledge in fundamental physics. The ESPP is updated every five-to-six years through a community-driven process. [...]

The steady-state gamma-ray emission from the Sun is thought to consist of two emission components due to interactions with Galactic cosmic rays: (1) a hadronic disk component, and (2) a leptonic extended component peaking at the solar edge and extending into the heliosphere. The flux of these components is expected to vary with the 11 yr solar cycle, being highest during solar minimum and lowest during solar maximum, as it varies with the cosmic-ray flux. [...]

This thesis studies the reconstruction of top quark-antiquark (t¯t) pairs in the dilepton decay channel, where both top quarks decay leptonically and two neutrinos escape detection. Since the event kinematics are underconstrained, the Sonnenschein algorithm, a fully analytical method used by the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC, where quark-antiquark pairs of the heaviest elementary particle are produced in proton-proton collisions, is applied. [...]

The Large Hadron Collider will be upgraded to extend its lifetime and improve various components. With the upgrade to the High-Luminosity-LHC the instantaneous luminosity will increaseto 5 · 1034 cm−2s−1 and the total integrated luminosity to at least 3000 fb−1. [...]

The outer tracker of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Detector will be upgraded as part of the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to the High-Luminosity LHC.The Tracker Endcap Double-Discs (TEDD), that are part of the outer tracker are built and integrated with modules at DESY. The CMS detector and with it the TEDD will be cooled to evacuate the generated heat of the modules, to minimize their leakage current due to the heavy irradiation from the passing through particles and avoid thermal runaway. [...]

The Physics Beyond Collider (PBC) Study Group was initially mandated by the CERN Management to prepare the previous European Particle Physics Strategy Update for CERN projects other than the high-energy frontier colliders. The main findings were summarized in an PBC Summary Report submitted to the Strategy Update. [...]

In the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a signal of astrophysical neutrinos is obscured by backgrounds from atmospheric neutrinos and muons produced in cosmic-ray interactions. IceCube event selections used to isolate the astrophysical neutrino signal often focus on t/he morphology of the light patterns recorded by the detector. [...]