Summer term 2024

• 18.04.2024
  Journal Club:
  Basics of scattering amplitudes
  Main speaker: Johannes Pirsch

Winter term 2023 / 2024

• 05.10.2023
  Journal Club / Student Seminar:
  Organizational meeting
• 23.11.2023
  Journal Club:
  Observational evidence for high energy neutrinos from the galactic plane and extra-galactic sources
  Main speaker: Martin Unland
• 07.12.2023
  Journal Club:
  Observation of the direct production of the chi_c1 resonance in electron-positron annihilations at BESIII
  Main speaker: Anja Brüggemann
• 01.02.2024
  Journal Club:
  Searching for new physics with pulsar timing arrays: the factorized likelihood approach
  Main speaker: Peter Stratmann
• 22.02.2024
  Journal Club:
  Generating off-shell effects with neural networks
  Main speaker: Mathias Kuschick

Summer term 2023

• 25.05.2023
  Journal Club:
  Input Scale Funtional Form in Nuclear PDFs
  Main speaker: Archita Dash
• 15.06.2023
  Journal Club:
  The Gamma-Method
  Main speaker: Justus Kuhlmann
• 29.06.2023
  Journal Club:
  Monte Carlos and parton showers
  Main speaker: Alexander Neuwirth
• 13.07.2023
  Journal Club:
  Introduction to soft-photons
  Main speaker: Roger Balsach
• 20.07.2023
  Journal Club:
  The Final States Distribution of molecular tritium and its impact on the neutrino-mass sensitivity of KATRIN (theory project)
  Main speaker: Sonja Schneidewind

Winter term 2022 / 2023

• 13.10.2022
  Journal Club / Student Seminar:
  Organizational meeting
• 27.10.2022
  Journal Club:
  A worldline approach to soft exponentiation in curved space
  Main speaker: Johannes Pirsch
• 10.11.2022
  Journal Club:
  Griding techniques for Heavy-flavoured hadrons production in hadronic collisions
  Main speaker: Gauthier Legras

• 15.12.2022
  Journal Club:
  Determination of constraints on the parameters of the MSSM including Inflation
  Main speaker: Richard von Eckardstein

• 12.01.2023
  Journal Club:
  Asymptotic Symmetries and Memories of Gauge Theories (in Cosmology)
  Main speaker: Tobias Schröder

• 26.01.2023
  Journal Club:
  Search for exotic states in etac decays at BESIII
  Main speaker: Anja Brüggemann

Summer term 2022

• 07.04.2022
  Journal Club / Student Seminar:
  Organizational meeting
• 14.04.2022
  Journal Club:
  Search for the spin exotic meson pi_1(1600) in chi_cJ decays at BESIII
  Main speaker: Frederik Weidner
• 19.05.2022
  Journal Club:
  Precision retarding potential and krypton-83m transition energy determination at KATRIN
  Main speaker: Caroline Rodenbeck
• 01.06.2022 (exceptionally on Wednesday!)
  Journal Club:
  Cross checks on radon removal using Kr83m
  Main speaker: Pia Petrak
• 23.06.2022
  Journal Club:
  SUSY-QCD corrections to squark annihilation into gluons and light quarks
  Main speaker: Luca Wiggering
• 30.06.2022
  Journal Club:
  Hadronic Decays at Resonance
  Main speaker: Jan Neuendorf

Winter term 2021 / 2022

• 14.10.2021
  Journal Club / Student Seminar:
  Organizational meeting
• 18.11.2021
  Journal Club:
  Prompt Photon Production Predictions using Powheg
  Main speaker: Khoirul Faiq Muzakka
• 25.11.2021
  Journal Club:
  Constraining nuclear parton distributions with data from gluon dominated processes
  Main speaker: Pit Duwentäster
• 13.01.2022
  Journal Club:
  Dihadron correlations of identified particles at high pT in pp collisions at the LHC
  Main speaker: Lucia Anna Tarasovicová
• 27.01.2022
  Journal Club:
  Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods and the structure of the proton
  Main speaker: Peter Risse
• 17.02.2022
  Journal Club:
  Experimental side project (interim report)
  Main speaker: Pia Petrak

 

Summer term 2021

• 15.04.2021
  Journal Club / Student Seminar:
  Organizational meeting
• 20.05.2021
  Journal Club:
  Ontology of Quantum Fields, or: What are the Fundamental Structures of Being?
  Main speaker: Johannes Branahl
• 03.06.2021
  Fronleichnam
• 10.06.2021
  Journal Club:
  Pythia
  Main speaker: Lucia Husova, Katharina Demmich
• 17.06.2021
  Student Seminar:
  Theory Project: "Indirect detection constraints on the scotogenic dark matter model"
  Main speaker: Raffaela Busse
• 01.07.2021
  Student Seminar:
  VUV Transmission of PTFE (arXiv: 2006.05827)
  Main speaker: Lutz Althüser
• 15.07.2021
  Student Seminar:
  Side experimental project on Ellipsometry
  Main speaker: Fausto Frisenna
• 22.07.2021
  Student Seminar:
  Side theory project on Jpsi production with Helac-Onia
  Main speaker: Ailec Bell

 

Winter term 2020 / 2021

• 05.11.2020
  Journal Club:
  What is Topological Recursion?
  Main speaker: Johannes Branahl
• 10.12.2020
  Student Seminar:
  Nuclear Parton Distribution Function Fits
  Main speaker: Lucia Husová
• 17.12.2020
  Student Seminar:
  How you should describe the dynamics of a two-body decay
  Main speaker: Johannes Bloms
• 07.01.2021
  Student Seminar:
  Reconstruction of Beauty Jets in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with ALICE
  Main speaker: Katharina Demmich
• 14.01.2021
  Journal Club:
  Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung: Feodor Lynen-Forschungsstipendium
• 21.01.2021
  Student Seminar:
  Energy loss in KATRIN
  Main speaker: Caroline Rodenbeck
• 28.01.2021
  Student Seminar:
  Fermat's Last Theorem
  Main speaker: Frederik Weidner
• 18.02.2021
  Student Seminar:
  Feeble neutrino interactions in Xenon: ultimate background for Dark Matter searches and probe for new fundamental interactions
  Main speaker: Christian Wittweg

 

Summer term 2020

• 07.05.2020
  Journal Club:
  Discussion of the paper arXiv:2004.07208: Why integral equations should be used instead of differential equations to describe the dynamics of epidemics
  Main speaker: All
• 20.05.2020
  Student Seminar:
  Rare, slow and special - Detecting the double-beta decays of Xe-124
  Main speaker: Christian Wittweg
• 04.06.2020
  Journal Club:
  Membrane Computing applied to Physics
  Main speaker: Laura Moreno
• 11.06.2020
  Journal Club:
  The idea of an optical nuclear clock
  Main speaker: Tabea Eder
• 18.06.2020
  Student Seminar:
  Correlation and Chi2 Fitting
  Main speaker: Khoirul Faiq Muzakka
• 25.06.2020
  Journal Club:
  Paper Batteries
  Main speaker: Ailec de la Caridad Bel Hechavarria
• 02.07.2020
  Journal Club:
  Confidence intervals and the determination of upper limits
  Main speaker: Alexey Lohkov
• 09.07.2020
  Student Seminar:
  Studying e+ e- annihilations in the charmonium-like region at BESIII
  Main speaker: Johannes Bloms

 

Winter term 2019 / 2020

• 10.10.2019
  Journal Club / Student Seminar:
  Organizational meeting
• 17.10.2019
  Student Seminar:
  Neutrino Properties from CMB Data at the Example of Planck
  Main speaker: Alexander Fulst
• 31.10.2019
  Student Seminar:
  Studies on J/ψ production as function of the charged particle multiplicity in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV: Status and Plans
  Main speaker: Ailec de la Caridad Bell Hechavarria
• 14.11.2019
  Journal Club:
  Climate System Modeling
  Main speaker: Katharina Garner
• 21.11.2019
  Journal Club:
  Idomatic Python and Fitting with IMINUIT
  Main speaker: Alexander Fulst
• 28.11.2019
  Journal Club:
  Python - Speed up your code
  Main speaker: Lutz Althüser
• 05.12.2019
  Journal Club:
  The future of particle physics – what to do after LHC
  Main speaker: Prof. Dr.  Anton Andronic
• 12.12.2019
  Student Seminar:
  3.5 keV line: X-ray observations from galaxy clusters as possible indication for DM
  Main speaker: Sybrand Zeinstra
• 16.01.2020
  Student Seminar:
   Axions as DM candidates
  Main speaker: Fabian Joswig
• 23.01.2020
  Student Seminar:
  Systematic Errors: Facts and Fictions
  Main speaker: Johannes Bloms

 

Summer term 2018

• 19.04.2018
  Journal Club / Student Seminar:
  Organizational meeting

• 26.04.2018
  Journal Club:
  Methods of particle identification at the example of BES III
  Main speaker: Kevin Eckert

• 03.05.2018
  Student Seminar:
  Discussion about the Young Researchers' Day
• 07.06.2018
  Student Seminar:
  Omega reconstruction in ALICE
  Main speaker: Henning Gerber
• 14.06.2018
  Student Seminar:
  Hadronization
  Main speaker: Daniel Mühlheim
• 05.07.2018
  Student Seminar:
  Exploring Multiple Parton Interactions in Pythia
  Main speaker: Oleh Fedkevych
• 19.07.2018
  Journal Club:
  Discovery of a big void in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons
  Main speaker: Marthijn Sunder

 

Summer term 2019

• 24.04.2019
  Student Seminar:
  Exact quantum field theory model on noncommutative space
  Main speaker: Alexander Hock
• 02.05.2019
  Student Seminar:
  Energy Loss in KATRIN
  Main speaker: Rudolf Sack
• 16.05.2019
  Student Seminar:
  Charming discoveries at BESIII
  Main speaker: Johannes Bloms
• 23.05.2019
  Student Seminar:
  Time-focusing time of flight method with a third spectrometer at KATRIN
  Main speaker: Alexander  Fulst
• 27.06.2019
  Journal Club:
  The Mont Blanc neutrinos from SN1987A: Could they have been monochromatic (8 MeV) tachyons with m^2 = -0.38 keV^2?
  Main speaker: Alexander  Fulst
• 11.07.2019
  Journal Club:
  Climate System Modeling
  Main speaker: Katharina Garner

 

Winter term 2018 / 2019

• 11.10.2018
  Journal Club / Student Seminar:
  Organizational meeting
• 08.11.2018
  Journal Club:
  Introduction to Lattice QCD
  Main speaker: Fabian Joswig
• 15.11.2018 (exceptionally at 12:00 a.m.!)
  Journal Club / Student Seminar:
  Discussion on Workshop for High-Energy Theory and Gender
• 29.11.2018
  Journal Club:
  Effects of finite Detection Efficiencies on the Measurement of Jet Shapes
  Main speaker: Sajid Ali
• 13.12.2018
  Journal Club:
  The Cloud Experiment
  Main speaker: Hendrik Poppenborg
• 24.01.2019
  Journal Club:
  Annual modulation: DAMA/LIBRA and XENON1T
  Main speaker: Miguel Vargas
• 31.01.2019
  Journal Club:
  A CPT-Symmetric Universe
  Main speaker: Christian Wittweg

 

Winter term 2017 / 2018

• 08.03.18
  Journal Club:
  Christiaan Huygens - On the Motion of Bodies Resulting from Impact
  Main speaker: Dr. Jens Salomon
• 01.02.18
  Journal Club:
  Quark nuggets as a candidate for dark matter
  Main speaker: Fabian Joswig
• 25.01.18
  Journal Club:
  Finding coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering with a tiny detector
  Main speaker: Christian Wittweg
• 18.01.18
  Journal Club:
  The concept of multiverse theories in modern particle physics
  Main speaker: Oleh Fedkevych
• 21.12.17
  Student Seminar:
  Scattering theory, the production of eta mesons in low-energy proton-deuteron collisions and possible quasi-bound eta-3He states
  Main speaker: Nils Hüsken
• 23.11.17
  Journal Club:
  Distinguishability of form factors for WIMP-Nucleus scattering
  Main speaker: Alexander Fieguth
• 26.10.17
  Journal Club:
  Gravitational Waves
  Main speaker: Henning Gerber, Simon Kuberski

• 12.10.17
  Journal Club / Student Seminar:
  Organizational meeting

 

 

Summer term 2017

• 20.07.17
  Student Seminar:
  XENON1T data - A search for the double electron capture
  Main speaker: Alexander Fieguth

• 22.06.17
  Journal Club:
  Quark-Gluon Plasma Probes
  Main speaker: Hendrik Poppenborg

• 18.05.17
  Journal Club:
  Discrete Time Crystals
  Main speaker: Sajid Ali

• 27.04.17
  Journal Club:
  Simulation of the impact of insulation on the dark rate behavior of a three-inch PMT for IceCube-Gen2
  Main speaker: Saskia Schmiemann

• 20.04.17
  Journal Club / Student Seminar:
  Organizational meeting

Winter term 2016 / 2017

• 20.10.16
  Journal Club:
  Dark matter, neutrino mass and lepton flavour violation
  Main speaker: Sonja Esch

• 27.10.16
  Journal Club:
  Falsifying Baryogenesis Mechanisms through Observation of Lepton Number and Flavor Violation
  Main speaker: Dr. Julia Harz

• 03.11.16
  Journal Club:
  Summation of convergent and divergent series
  Main speaker: Henning Gerber

• 24.11.16
  Student Seminar:
  Lattice calculations of leptonic decay constants
  Main speaker: Kevin Eckert

• 01.12.16
  Journal Club:
  Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio-Frequency Cavity in Vacuum
  Main speaker: Hendrik Poppenberg, Alexander Fieguth

• 08.12.16
  Journal Club:
  Physics at BES-III
  Main speaker: Nils Hüsken

• 15.12.16
  Journal Club:
  Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe' by Erik Verlinde
  Main speaker: Saskia Schmiemann, Marthijn Sunder

• 12.01.17
  Journal Club:
  Unifying inflation with the axion, dark matter, baryogenesis and the seesaw mechanism
  Main speaker: Miguel Vargas, Nicholas Steinbrink

• 19.01.17
  Journal Club:
  Perturbative--nonperturbative connection in quantum mechanics and field theory
  Main speaker: Oleh Fedkevych

 

Summer term 2016

• 07.04.16

Set up the Journal Club and Student Seminar for the next Semester
Open discussion

• 14.04.16

Journal Club:
The Concept of Mass
Mariia Fedkevych

• 21.04.16

Student Seminar:
Meson production
Main speaker: Nils Hüsken

• 28.04.16

Journal Club:
Feynmanrules for beginners
Main speaker: Hendrik Poppenborg

• 12.05.16

Journal Club:
One more derivation of Lorentz transformation by Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond
Main speaker: Oleh Fedkevych

12.05.16
Journal Club:
One more derivation of Lorentz transformation by Jean-Mar Lévy-Le

• 02.06.16

Journal Club:
ALICE experiment
Denise Godoy

• 09.06.16

Journal Club/ Student Seminar:
String Theory
Main speaker: Henning Gerber

• 16.06.16

Journal Club:
Particle Identification (ALICE) and Organisation Young Researcher’s Day 2016
Main speaker: Florian Herrmann

• 23.06.16

Journal Club/ Student Seminar:
Lattice QCD (Introduction, Basics)
Main speaker: Pietro Giudice

• 30.06.16

Journal Club:
Event generators
Daniel Schwartländer, Florian Herrmann 
 

• 07.07.16

Journal Club/ Student Seminar:
Skyrmionen
Main speaker: Friedrich Bach
  

• 14.07.16

Student Seminar:
Organisation Young Researcher’s Day 2016
Open discussion

• 21.07.16

Journal Club:     
How Dark Matter killed the Dinosaurs" (arXiv:1403.0576v1) and Organisation Young Researcher’s Day 2016
Main speaker: Alex Fieguth, Sonja Esch

 

Winter term 2015 / 2016

• 09.12.15
  Journal Club:
  Renormalization
  Main speaker: Dr. Karol Kovařík

• 17.12.15
  Student Seminar:
  Searching for Dark Matter and physics beyond the Standard Model with the XENON Project
  Main speaker: Alex Fieguth

• 14.01.2016
  Journal Club:
  Systematic errors (based on literature for the discussion of a specific example of systematic errors in measurements using the KATRIN experiment)
  Main speaker: Dr. Philipp Ranitzsch

• 21.01.16
  Student Seminar:
  Minimal models for neutralino masses and dark matter
  Main speaker: Sonja Esch
• 28.01.16
  Journal Club:
  Background rejection
  Open discussion
• 04.02.16
  Journal Club:
  Landau-Yang theorem and its relevance for Higgs physics
  Main speaker: Oleh Fedkevych

• 11.02.16
  Journal Club/ Student Seminar:
  Feedback to improve the Journal Club and Student Seminar