JGU Jogustine Courselists

Seminar 2 (M.Sc.) - Kern- und Teilchenphysik

Instructors: Dr. Christian Schmitt
Shortname: 08.128.80105
Course No.: 08.128.80105
Course Type: Seminar

Requirements / organisational issues

There will be a meeting on Wednesday, February 11th, at 16:00 in the ETAP seminar room (Staudingerweg 7, 4. Stock, room 04-225) to distribute the seminar topics.

Please send an email to schmittc AT uni-mainz.de with a prioritised list of your desired topics (minimum 2, maximum 5) well in advance of the meeting.

Contents

The following topics can be chosen:

  1. A Gem of a Detector for High Precision Tracking 
  2. Boosted heavy particle decays - disentangling cuddling quarks
  3. Charge Distribution of the Neutron 
  4. CP Violation with B Mesons 
  5. Determination of Neutrino Masses in the Cosmos 
  6. Determination of Neutrino Masses in the Laboratory 
  7. Dirac or Majorana? Understanding the nature of the neutrino with neutrinoless double beta decays
  8. Direct Search for Dark Matter 
  9. Effective Field Theories in Flavour Physics
  10. Electron Scattering Experiments at MESA 
  11. Energy Measurement with Calorimeters of Highest Granularity 
  12. Evidence of Iron-60 from past Supernovae in deep-ocean ferromanganese crusts
  13. Exotic decays of the Higgs boson
  14. Experiments on Neutron Skins of Nuclei 
  15. Flavour Changing Currents
  16. Freeze-in dark matter and long-lived particles
  17. Gauge Anomaly Cancellation in the Standard Model
  18. Geometric Aspects of Hamilton Mechanics
  19. Gravitational waves (focus on experiment)
  20. Gravitational Waves (focus on theory) 
  21. Higgs boson mass and width 
  22. High precision measurement of the weak mixing angle at MESA: A sensitive test of the Standard Model
  23. How to detect tumors with wax - a novel approach to positron emission tomography 
  24. Indirect Search for Dark Matter Using Gamma Telescopes
  25. Inflation: Theory and testability of models
  26. Leptogenesis and neutrino masses 
  27. Looking for dark matter and neutrinos with liquid argon deep underground
  28. Mass Matrices and Mass Diagonalization 
  29. Neutrino Astronomy 
  30. Neutron star and the equation of state of dense matter
  31. Nuclear Weapons and non-proliferation
  32. Online Track Reconstruction 
  33. Probing the alpha-particle beyond its ground state: is there a puzzle?
  34. Probing the Standard Model with the new MESA accelerator
  35. Production and Detection of Dark Matter at LHC 
  36. Proton Radius Puzzle and Lattice QCD
  37. QCD Phase Diagram 
  38. Quark Confinement 
  39. Search for Exotic Nuclear Structures at Radioactive-Ion Beam Facilities
  40. Search for Extra Dimensions (and more) at LHC 
  41. Search for Lepton Flavour Violation 
  42. Search for New Physics with the Top Quark 
  43. Search for Particles of a Dark Sector at MESA
  44. Spin and CP properties of the Higgs Boson 
  45. The Cabibbo Anomaly: What’s wrong between Neutron and Kaon Decays?
  46. The Future of Radioactive-Ion Beam Facilities: What can we expect from FAIR, FRIB and RIBF
  47. The hunt for new particles at the new Beam Dump Facility at CERN
  48. The muon g-2: a strong indication for New Physics?
  49. The nucleosynthesis of the elements
  50. The Quest for the Tiniest Lepton Mixing Angle
  51. The search for the tetraneutron: Can four neutrons stick together?
  52. The Solar Neutrino Puzzle 
  53. The super-Poincaré algebra
  54. The WIMP miracle (Dark Matter Theory)
  55. Ultrafast silicon detectors for precise time measurements 

Dates

Date (Day of the week) Time Location
04/13/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
04/20/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
04/27/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
05/04/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
05/11/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
05/18/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
06/01/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
06/08/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
06/15/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
06/22/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
06/29/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik
07/06/2026 (Monday) 14:15 - 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum
2412 - Neubau Physik