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International Master on Advanced methods in Particle Physics

Final examination and Award

The final examination held annually at the end of September in one of the three partner universities.


By successfully completing the degree program, candidates have demonstrated that they have learned advanced technical knowledge, skills and methods that are required for scientific work and for scientifically-oriented professional activity and that enable them to critically new scientific findings and use them in professional practice.
With the Master’s thesis, candidates should demonstrate that they can independently work on a problem setting in physics according to scientific methods and within a given period of time.

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Third Graduation Session – September 29/30, 2025

The third Master’s degree session was held in Bologna on September 29, 2025 in the headquarters of the Department of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi” of the University of Bologna. The Degree Award Ceremony was held a day later.

The 31 students enrolled in the academic year 2023/2024 discussed their theses prepared during the fourth semester of internship.

StudentThesis TitleInstitutionSupervisor

Marina Andress

“Using Neural Networks to Identify Pure Signal Regions for tqy Production at the ATLAS Experiment”

TU Dortmund,

Germany

Dr. Andrea Knue

Emilio Apicella

“Data-driven background estimation in the search for Higgs boson pair production

in the HH – bbbb channel with the ATLAS experiment”

LPNHE, France

R.C. Camacho Toro

M. Franchini

Angelo Arisi 

“Studies for the Measurement of Quantum Correlations in Top Quark Pair Production with cms run 2 data”

Purdue University, USA

Edoardo Barbi

“Beam-Based Anomaly Detection in Accelerators Using Variational Autoencoders

with Drift-Aware Continual Learning”

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,

USA

Ben Carew

“Event Reconstruction of the HyperKamiokande Detector”

LPNHE, France

Dr Vladimir Gligorov

Dr Mathieu Guigue

Eduard Costa Reina

“Decay constants of B*c and Bc1 from QCD Sum Rules”

University of Cambridge, GB

Dr. Nico Gubernari

Prof. Dr. Gudrun Hiller

Fabio Cufino

“Advancing Event Reconstruction Techniques for High-Energy Neutrino Physics

Using Conventional and Deep Learning Approaches for the FASER Experiment at the CERN LHC”

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Dr. Saúl Alonso-Monsalve

Prof. Davide Sgalaberna

Prof. Julien Donini

Jürgen Diverchy

“Study of rare baryonic-radiative decays at LHCb”

Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont,

France

Dr. Olivier Deschamps

Niklas Düser

“Search for Single Top Quark Production in the s-channel

with the ATLAS Experiment using Machine-Learning Techniques”

TU Dortmund,

Germany

Dr. Andrea Knue

Josue Salvador

Elizalde Palacios

“Exploring the potential of quantum observables to search for new physics, in boosted top-pair production”

University of Bologna,

Italy

Dr. Federica Fabbri

Dr. Andrea Knue

Melike Nur Erbek

“Testing TeV Scale Gravity Theories with Public Neutrino Oscillation Data”

Technische Universität München,

Germany

Dr. Philipp Eller

Samuel Fanel

“Study of the B leptonic and semi-leptonic decays

at the high luminosity Z factory FCC-ee”

Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont,

France

Prof. Stephane Monteil

Dr. Mykhailo Yeresko

Simone Garnero

“Development of an RPC based photodetector with picosecond resolution”

KEK,

Japan

Prof. Kodai Matsuoka

Dr. Diego Tonelli

Marco Iamperi

“Design and Development of an animal phantom for Proton Therapy simulations

and physical measurements”

TU Dortmund,

Germany

Edgar Mata

“Reducing Lepton Contributions to Large-Radius Jet Reconstruction in Boosted Analyses

via the Particle Flow Algorithm in ATLAS”

CERN,

Switzerland

Dr. Chris M. Delitzsch

Anubhav Gupta

Adwait Meppurath

“Search for Charged Higgs Bosons Decaying

to a Neutral Higgs Boson with the ATLAS Detector at CERN”

Czech Technical University,

Czechoslovakia

Dr. Andre Sopczak

Ahmet Neccar

“Incoherent Radiation as a Seed for Free Electron Laser”

INFN,

Italy

Dr.Vittoria Petrillo

Thomas Ogasa

“Optimization of Opposite-Side Flavor-Tagging Algorithms for the LHCb Upgrade”

TU Dortmund,

Germany

Prof. Johannes

Albrecht

David Okpaga

“Deep Learning Studies for the Measurement of the Top Quark Mass”

TU Dortmund,

Germany

Dr. Andrea Knue

Dr. Javier Jimenez Pena

Vinicius De Oliveira

“Scale Factors for Boosted Object Identification in Diboson Events at ATLAS”

TU Dortmund,

Germany

Dr. Chris M. Delitzsch

Simone Ruscelli

Alberto Saborido

Patino

“NNLO QCD predictions for W boson production

in association with jets and their use in PDF fits”

Max Planck Institute for Physics,

Germany

Bastian Schuchardt

“Machine learning-based identification and mitigation of pile-up contributions
in topoclusters in ATLAS”

TU Dortmund,

Germany

Zahra Syeda Eman

“Updated Predictions for Cosmic-Ray Beryllium Isotopes”

University of Bologna,

Italy

Prof. Nicolo Masi

Prof. Alberto Oliva

Lorenzo Tincani 

“Measurement of Sieverts’ constant in lithium-lead alloys”

ENEA,

Italy

Niccolò Tonin

“Enhancing The Efficiency of Event Generation with MCMC and Machine Learning Techniques”

TU Dortmund,

Germany

Prof. Cornelius

Grunwald

Can Toraman

“Studies of systematic effects for measurements of oscillating B0s mesons at the LHCb experiment”

TU Dortmund,

Germany

Jamson Ujang

“Validation of Machine-Learning Based Topocluster Calibration in ATLAS

Using Data and Monte Carlo Simulation”

TU Dortmund,

Germany

Dr. Chris M. Delitzsch

Ishaan Utkarsh

“Determination of the Discovery Potential of Leptoquarks Decaying

into a Tau-Lepton and a Top-Quark Using the ATLAS Detector at CERN”

Czech Technical University,

Czechoslovakia

Prof. Andre Sopczak

Pio Varrella

“Preliminary Amplitude Analysis of the D 0 – K +K – 0 decay at LHCb”

CERN,

Switzerland

Dr. Federico Betti

Prof. Angelo Carbone

Nicolai Weitkemper 

“The Impact of Topo-Cluster Splitting on Boosted Object Identification in ATLAS”

CERN,

Switzerland

Theodor Zies

“Measurement of strangeness production in pNe collisions at LHCb”

TU Dortmund,

Germany

Prof. Johannes Albrecht

Noah Behling

Dr. Felix Riehn

Chiara Lucarelli

Saverio Mariani


Second Graduation Session – September 30, 2024

The second Master’s degree session was held in Bologna on September 30, 2024 in the headquarters of the Department of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi” of the University of Bologna.

The 9 students enrolled in the academic year 2022/2023 discussed their theses prepared during the fourth semester of internship.

StudentThesis TitleInstitutionSupervisor

Maxime Barthoux

Study of EFT operators in the top quark sector with ATLAS, based on their CP properties

Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont

Prof. Dr. Romain Madar

Alberto Bellavista

Study of the simulations of the readout for the future LHCb Electromagnetic Calorimeter

and characterization of photomultipliers

University of Bologna

Prof. Angelo Carbone

Dr. Loris Martinazzoli

Prof. Marco Pizzichemi

Caroline Bonk

“Diamond RnD for Fast Diamond Readout”

TU Dortmund

Donata Osthues

Dr. Dirk Wiedner

Nicolas Cartalade

Search for new particles decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons with the ATLAS experiment

Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont

Prof. Louis D’Eramo

Giulia Fazzino

“Suppressing pile-up contributions in the formation of topological clusters in ATLAS” 

TU Dortmund

Dr. Chris Malena Delitzsch

Simon Jeannot

The CONTUR tool and long-lived particles

Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont

Prof. Dr. Louie Corpe

Joel Mainusch

“Analysis of B0s → μ+μ− Decays as a Tool for LHCb – Run 3 Data Validation”

TU Dortmund

Prof. Dr. Johannes Albrecht

Lorenzo Nisi

“Asymmetries in rare three-body charm decays with electrons at LHCb”

TU Dortmund

Dr. Dominik S. Mitzel

Dr. Serena Maccolini

Lorenzo Valla

“Higgs boson properties and tau lepton identification at the s = 3 TeV Muon Collider”

LIP – Lisbon

Prof. Michele Gallinaro

Prof. Maximiliano Sioli

Watch here the video dedicated to this important day:


First Graduation Session – September 29, 2023

The first Master’s degree session was held in Bologna on September 23, 2023 in the historical “Aula della Specola” inside Palazzo Poggi.

Students enrolled in the academic year 2021/2022 discussed their theses prepared during the fourth semester of internship at some of the partner institutions of the master.

StudentThesis TitleInstitutionSupervisor

Luca Balzani

“Study of charge asymmetries of charm decays using early data of LHCb Run 3”

TU Dortmund, Germany

Dr. Dominik Mitzel

Marco Colonna

“Study of rare semi-leptonic baryonic charm decays for a measurement of CP violation and angular asymmetries”

TU Dortmund, Germany

Dr. Dominik Mitzel

Ludovica De Gianni

“Simulations of highly radiative scenarios of the JT-60SA tokamak”

IRFM – CEA Cadarch, France

 Prof. Guido Ciraolo

Elena Cuppini

“Search for vector-like leptons coupling to first and second generation leptons
in multi-lepton final states with the ATLAS detector”

TRIUMF and UBC, Canada

Prof. Oliver Stelzer-Chilton

Sara Sacchi

Optimization of advanced patterning techniques in semiconductor manufacturing using machine learning” 

imec, Belgium

Prof. Bappaditya Dey

Simone Ruscelli

Feasibility studies for the extraction of the efficiency of boosted W /Z identification algorithms
in diboson events using 13 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS

TU Dortmund, Germany

Dr. Chris Delitzsch