11th KSETA Plenary Workshop 2024

Mar 13, 2024, 8:00 AM → Mar 15, 2024, 5:50 PM Europe/Berlin

Haus Saron in Wildberg

All Fellows and Principal Investigators are cordially invited to participate in the eleventh plenary workshop of the whole school. The aim of the workshop is to learn more about all the research fields in KSETA and to strengthen cooperation and team building.

The program includes talks from external speakers and the new PIs will introduce themselves. The PhD students are invited to contribute with a talk or a poster. On Thursday afternoon the PI session will take place. The final timetable will be published after the registration deadline in order to appropriately consider all fellow presentations.

We will inform you later about the proposed social activities.

Please register until February 4, 2024.

Wednesday, March 13

1 Arrival

10:00 AM Coffee

Plenary Meeting

2 Welcome

Speaker: Ulrich Nierste (Institut fuer Theoretische Teilchenphysik, KIT CS)

12:00 PM Lunch

Plenary Meeting

3 Radio Frequency Electronics for Scalable Superconducting Quantum Circuit Interfacing

Speaker: Robert Gartmann

KSETA_plenary_2024_Gartmann.pdf

4 BSM search for di-Higgs production in ττ+bb final states with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Nikita Shadskiy (ETP)

2024_03_13_KSETA_workshop.pdf

3:00 PM Coffee

Plenary Meeting

5 Galactic cosmic rays

Speaker: Stefano Gabici

gabici.pdf

6 Neural Networks for Cosmic Ray Simulations

Speaker: Pranav Sampathkumar (KIT)

KSETA Plenary-1.pdf

7 System and Integration Tests with CMS Phase-2 Outer Tracker Module Prototoypes

Speaker: Lea Stockmeier

20240313_integration_tests_lea_stockmeier.pdf

6:00 PM Dinner

Fellow Meeting

Thursday, March 14

8:00 AM Breakfast

Plenary Meeting

8 The Quest for the Axion

We review the motivation for the axion as a solution of the strong CP puzzle. We discuss benchmark axion models and present their predictions concerning (i) axion couplings to the Standard Model and (ii) axion dark matter abundance.
We give an overview on the discovery potential of current and planned axion experiments, reaching from direct production and detection of axions in the laboratory, over searches for solar axions, to axion dark matter direct detection.

Speaker: Andreas Ringwald (DESY)

kseta_workshop_2024.pdf

10:00 AM Coffee

Plenary Meeting

9 Enhancing the Phase Space for the Analysis of Inclusive Hbb Production Through Trigger-Level Analysis at the CMS Experiment

Speaker: Adelina Lintuluoto

Adelina Lintuluoto KSETA Plenary 2024.pdf

10 Laser-Plasma Accelerators: Particle Acceleration in a Nutshell

High-power lasers, relativistic electron beams, ultrashort X-ray pulses, plasma accelerators … Oh My!
In this talk I will discuss laser-plasma accelerators – a novel technology that has the potential to become the next generation of particle accelerators.
Particle accelerators are key drivers for research and innovation and while mostly hidden from view, they have enabled many scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs that have changed our way of life. However, they are often costly and high-energy machines are kilometer-scale facilities of which only a few exist worldwide.
Laser-plasma acceleration (LPA) can shrink the cost and dimension of accelerators by nearly three orders of magnitude compared to current technology. In LPAs, an ultrashort high-power laser is focused into a plasma, where it generates a plasma wave in its wake. Electrons can be injected into this plasma wave and are accelerated by its massive electric field to relativistic energies over a distance of only a few millimeters to centimeters.
I will present an overview of the field of laser-plasma acceleration and its current state-of-the art, introduce some applications of LPAs, including compact X-ray sources, and give an outlook over future developments.

Speaker: Matthias Fuchs

12:00 PM Lunch

Plenary Meeting

11 Tritium sorption on the KATRIN Rear Wall: Effects, Dynamics and Mitigation

Speaker: Max Aker

240314_KSETA_AKER_RW.pptx

2:30 PM Group picture

Poster Session

3:00 PM Coffee

PI Meeting

6:00 PM Dinner

12 Get together

Fireside with "Stockbrot & Marsmallows"
Other social activities

Friday, March 15

8:00 AM Breakfast

Plenary Meeting

13 Precision prediction for the LHC

Given the absence of a direct evident for new physics at the LHC, indirect searches are becoming more and more prominent. Precision theory predictions are crucial to enhance the sensitivity in these searches. I will review the status of today's theoretical description of Standard Model processes relevant for the analysis of LHC data. I will focus on cross-sections relevant for Higgs searches, both for the description of the signal and of the backgrounds, and on benchmark processes for discoveries.

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi

10:00 AM Coffee

Plenary Meeting

14 Precision measurement of vibrational transitions in HT

Speaker: Valentin Hermann (TLK)

HT-NICEOHMS_final.pptx

15 Field Theory Tools for Gravitational Wave Physics (online)

In the last few years a collection of novel approaches have lead to spectacular progress in the Post-Minkowskian description of the motion and gravitational wave emission of a two-body system. Analytical results in such approaches are obtained by studying a hyperbolic encounter using computational tools from high energy particle physics. These results can then be analytically continued to bound systems via the boundary-to-bound (B2B) dictionary, producing high-precision data needed for the construction of waveform templates. I will introduce the framework in which we perform these computations, talk a little bit about the computational tools, and review the ideas underlying the B2B map.

Speaker: Gregor Kälin

12:00 PM Lunch

Plenary Meeting

16 Human Brain Project and the EBRAINS Research Infrastructure

EBRAINS is a collaborative European Research Infrastructure designed to advance and accelerate progress in neuroscience and brain health. The infrastructure and ecosystem, legacy of the Human Brain Project, allows researchers, clinicians and experts from a broad range of disciples to explore and analyze the brain in its full multi-scale complexity: From the molecular detail, to cellular, to networks and the whole embodied brain.
This talk will provide an overview of EBRAINS’ past and future. The different stages in its development from concept to implantation, complemented with a view on the current phase with EBRAINS on the ESFRI roadmap. Following this, the tools and services will be introduced, organized around a selection of science workflows. Special attention will be given to the usage of AI tools and the mutual beneficial relationship between neuroscience and AI. The talk will finish with a meta-level exploration of potential lessons for long time scale interdisciplinary sciences as learned from the EBRAINS Research Infrastructure development.

Speaker: Wouter Klijn

17 Search for Inelastic Dark Matter with a Dark Higgs at Belle II

Speaker: Patrick Ecker (KIT)

2024_03_15_idmdh_kseta.pdf

3:00 PM Coffee

Plenary Meeting

18 Evaluation and closing

19 Departure