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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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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

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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