Open projects for HL-LHC
Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment
Open projects for HL-LHC
The DESY CMS group offers several projects for Bachelor, Master and PhD theses related to the following topics:
Outer Tracker Module Development (contact Andreas Mussgiller)
Measurements of thermal properties of novel materials, test structures and module prototypes
- characterization of composites
- optimization thermal interfaces
- refinement of thermal finite element analyse
Optical measurements of the deformation of test structures and prototype modules due to thermal stress final design and commissioning of the laboratory equipment
- optimization of the image recognition software
- improvement and extension of the reconstruction software
- realization of calibration measurements
Outer Tracker End Cap Mechanics (contact Andreas Mussgiller)
- development of a small end cap prototype
- optimization of the assembly procedure
Development of Radiation-hard Silicon Sensors (contact Doris Eckstein)
- calibration of Transient Current Technique (TCT) setup
- establish edge-TCT setup
- characterization of silicon test structures (diodes) using cooled probe station
- test beam measurements and analyses of irradiated and non-irradiated silicon sensors using an ALIBAVA setup
- investigation of sensor properties using TCT, multi-channel TCT and edge-TCT
- investigation of bulk damage in combination with surface damage of silicon sensors
- simulation of silicon sensors including radiation damage using Synopsys TCAD