D.Phil Theses

ATLAS D.Phil students and their thesis topics listed according to their year of admission.

2015

Jesse Liu
SUSY and dark matter searches using the ATLAS detector

Luigi Marchese
Indirect Measurement of the Higgs Boson Width and Searches for Additional Higgs Bosons

Measurement of low pTD+ meson production cross section at CDF

Michael Nelson
Searches for Supersymmetry with LHC Run 2 data

Gabija Zemaityte
Measurements of the Higgs boson in its decay to WW*

2014

Jonathan Burr
Supersymmetry searches with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC

Mariyan Petrov
Search for a high mass Higgs boson in the H -> ZZ -> 212v decay channel using the ATLAS detector in run II of the LHC

Peter Phillips
ATLAS ITK Strip Tracker Staves

Luigi Vigani
Silicon detector research and development

2013

Lydia Beresford
Dijet Resonance Searches with the ATLAS detector at 13 TeV and jet punch-through corrections

William Fawcett
Observation of supersymmetric particles with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider

2012

Katharina Behr
A Search for Massive Resonances in Final States with Boosted Top-Antitop Pairs Decaying into a Lepton and Jets with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider

Charles Kalderon
Searches for strongly produced supersymmetry at 8 and 13 TeV centre of mass energy collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Mark Pickering
Search for MSSM Higgs decaying to tau pairs with the ATLAS detector at 13 TeV

2011

Mireia Crispin Ortuzar
High jet multiplicity physics at the Large Hadron Collider

Shaun Gupta
A Study Of Longitudinal Hadronic Shower Leakage and the Development of a Correction for its Associated Effects at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

James Henderson
First observation of the electroweak production of a W-boson with two associated jets in a vector-boson fusion topology

Katherine Pachal
Search for new physics in the dijet invariant mass spectrum at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Craig Sawyer
Measurements of vector boson production in association with jets at the LHC using the ATLAS detector

2010

Alexandru Dafinca
Searches for supersymmetric partners of the bottom and top quarks with the ATLAS detector

David Hall
Discovery and measurement of the Higgs boson in the WW decay channel

Lucy Kogan
The jet energy scale uncertainty derived from gamma-jet events for small and large radius jets and the calibration and performance of Variable R jets with the ATLAS detector

2009

Ryan Buckingham
Searches for New Physics using Dijet Angular Distributions in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV collected with the ATLAS Detector

Eleanor Davies
Electron and hadronic recoil calibration for the first measurement of the mass of the W boson by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

Jacob Howard
Measurements of the Higgs Boson in the H¿TT Decay Channel

Robert King
A First Measurement of Electroweak Production of a W Boson in Association with Two Jets with the ATLAS Detector

Adrian Lewis
Measurement of the Inclusive W Cross Section at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

Nicholas Ryder
Measurement of the invisible width of the Z boson using the ATLAS detector

Christopher Young
Searches with the ATLAS Detector for New Coloured Particles in the Jets + E(T)miss Channel in Early LHC Data

2008

Caterina Doglioni
Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hardon Collider

Jessica Hanzlik (Msc)
Stability Tests of Opto-Electronic Systems for the SLHC: Radiation and Temperature Effects on Performance

Sarah Livermore
A Search for Massive Top Quark Resonances with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider at 8 TeV and first

Alexander Pinder
A Search for Supersymmetry With Jets and Missing Transverse Energy at the Large Hadron Collider, and the Performance of the ATLAS Missing Transverse Energy Trigger

Daniel Short
A Search for Supersymmetry with the ATLAS Detector using Kinematic Shape Constraints in Events Containing One Electron or Muon

Samuel Whitehead
A Measurement of the W Boson Charge Asymmetry with the ATLAS Detector

2007

James Buchanan
A Measurement of the Ratio of W+l Jet and Z+l Jet Cross Sections using the Atlas Detector at the LHC

Aimee Larner
Measurement of the Z-> tau_ltau_h cross section and Search for the Standard Model Vector Boson Fusion Produced Higgs -> tau_ltau_h at ATLAS

Gemma Wooden
A search for H->WW using a Matrix Element Discriminant and a WW Cross Section Measurement at ATLAS

2006

Oleg Brandt
Search for Supersymmetry in Trilepton Final States with the Atlas Detector and the Alignment of the Atlas Silicon Tracker

Maria Fiascaris
W Boson Production in Association with Hadrone Jets at ATLAS

Guillaume Kirsch
Study of the Sensitivity of Jet Parameter Distributions to the Strong Coupling Constant X's in Z->e+c- Events

Kristin Lohwasser
The W Charge Asymmetry: Measurement of the Proton Structure with the Atlas Detector

2005

Ellie Dobson
A Feasibility Study into the Measurement of W and Z Cross Sections with the Atlas Detector

2004

Bilge Demirkoz
Construction and Performance of the Atlas SCT Barrels and Cosmic Tests

Florian Heinemann
Robust Track Based Alignment of the Atlas Silicon Detectors and Assessing Parton Distribution Uncertainties in Dreil-Yan Processes

2003

Nicholas Brett
Micro Black Holes at the LHC and An X-Ray Survey of the Atlas SCT

Mohammed Dehchar
ATLAS Alignment Using Frequency Scanning Inteferometry

Laura Gilbert
A Feasibility Study on Measuring a Strange Sea Asymmetry in the Proton at ATLAS

2002

Jonathan Cox
Atlas FSI Retroflectors and Inner Detector B-Field Calibration Study

Alessandro Tricoli
Constraining the Proton Structure at Atlas