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Physik-Institut Group of Nicola Serra

Theses

Fifteen PhD theses, thirteen Master theses and eleven Bachelor theses have so far been completed within the LHCb group at UZH.

PhD theses

  Title Supervisor(s) Year
M. Atzeni

Direct Determination of the Lepton Flavour Universality Observables ∆C9,10 in B0 → K∗0l+l− Decays (PDF, 13 MB)

N. Serra

R. Coutihno

 2023
Z. Wang

Angular Analysis of B0 → K∗0e+e− Decays at LHCb (PDF, 15 MB)

N. Serra

R. Coutihno

 2023
D. Lancierini

An Experimental and Phenomenological Dissection of Beauty-Quark Decays into Light Leptons (PDF, 6 MB)

N. Serra

P. Owen

 2023
I. Bezshyiko Testing the Standard Model Lepton Symmetries in Collider and Fixed-Target Experiments (PDF, 13 MB)

N. Serra

P. Owen

 2021
A. Mauri Direct and Indirect Searches for New Physics in b → sℓℓ Decays N. Serra,
R. Coutinho		 2020
E. Graverini Flavour Physics with (semi)leptonic decays at forward spectrometers U. Straumann,
N. Serra,
O. Steinkamp		 2018
F. Lionetto Measurements of Angular Observables of B0→K*0μ+μ- and B0→K*0e+e- Decays and the Upgrade of LHCb N. Serra,
K. Müller,
O. Steinkamp		 2018
M. Tresch Tracking and particle identification at LHCb and strange hadron production in events with a Z boson U. Straumann,
N. Serra,
K. Müller,
O. Steinkamp		 2017
E. E. Bowen Upstream tracking and the decay B0→K+π-μ+μ- at the LHCb experiment U. Straumann,
N. Serra,
O. Steinkamp,
B. Storaci		 2017
N. Chiapolini Low mass Drell-Yan cross section measurement with the LHCb experiment U. Straumann,
K. Müller,
J. Anderson		 2015
A. Bursche Z bosons in LHCb U. Straumann,
K. Müller,
J. Anderson		 2014
C. Elsasser The rare decays B0s→μ+μ- and Z boson production at LHCb and radiation damage in its Silicon Tracker U. Straumann,
L. Baudis,
K. Müller,
O. Steinkamp		 2014
M. De Cian Track reconstruction efficiency and analysis of B0→K*0μ+μ- at the LHCb experiment U. Straumann,
O. Steinkamp,
N. Serra		 2013
C. Salzmann LHCb spectrometer alignment and verification of its performance using the decay Bd→K*0J/ψ U. Straumann,
O. Steinkamp,
J. van Tilburg		 2011
A. Büchler Mass resolution study of the B0s-meson with first LHCb data U. Straumann,
J. van Tilburg,
O. Steinkamp		 2011
D. Volyanskyy The Trigger Tracker and a Monte Carlo study of the Bs→J/ψη' decay in the LHCb experiment U. Straumann,
J. van Tilburg		 2007
S. Köstner Large area silicon tracking detectors with fast signal readout for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN U. Straumann,
C. Fabian		 2005
A. Vollhardt An optical readout system for the LHCb Silicon Tracker U. Straumann,
R. Horisberger,
C. Amsler,
O. Steinkamp		 2005
P. Sievers A silicon inner tracker for the LHCb experiment U. Straumann,
M. Schmelling		 2002
M. Ziegler Development of a triple GEM detector for the LHCb experiment U. Straumann,
F. Sauli		 2002
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Master theses (Diplomarbeiten)

Title Supervisor(s) Year
A. Roldán Analysis of B→Kπee (PDF, 1 MB) N. Serra,
P. Owen,
G. Dissertori		 2022
Y. Zhao The B→Kπee selection in the LHCb experiment (PDF, 1 MB) N. Serra,
P. Owen,
R. Coutinho		 2021
T. Neuer Generating Calorimetry Signals at the LHCb with Generative Adversarial Networks (PDF, 8 MB) N. Serra,
P. Owen,
D. Lancierini		 2020
S. Liechti Hunting for B→Kτ+τ- imprints on the B→Kμ+μ- dimuon spectrum (PDF, 1 MB) N. Serra,
P. Owen		 2019
J. Eschle zfit: scalable model fitting in Python using Tensorflow (PDF, 1 MB)

N. Serra,

A. Puig Navarro

 2019
O. Dahme Implementation of Monte Carlo fitter and selection of B0 → K*0μ+μ- decays in LHCb Run 2 data

N. Serra,
M. Chrzsaszcz

 2018
A. Dätwyler A scintillator based timing detector for the SHiP experiment (PDF, 15 MB)

N. Serra,

C. Betancourt

 2018
D. Lancierini
(visiting from University of Milano Bicocca)		 Study of the B → D μ ν differential decay width: analysis of the sensitivity of LHCb to the scalar form factor M. Calvi,
G. Isidori,
N. Serra		 2017
R. Brüdler SiPM Readout for SHiP Timing Detector C. Betancourt
N. Serra		 2017
N. Chetelat Neutrino-induced background studies for the SHiP experiment (PDF, 4 MB)

N. Serra

B. Storaci

 2016
P. Gloor New approach to the circle Hough Transform for detecting Cherenkov rings in the LHCb RICH detector (PDF, 3 MB) P. Saha, U. Straumann, O. Steinkamp 2016
E. Crivelli Measurement of open charm and double open charm production cross sections and ratios in pp collisions at √ s = 2.76 TeV with the LHCb experiment (PDF, 4 MB) U. Straumann,
K. Müller,
A. Bursche		 2016
D. Biasini Measurement of σ(pp → bbX) at 8 TeV in the forward region of the LHCb experiment U. Straumann,
K. Müller,
C. Elsasser		 2015
M. Tresch Measurement of asymmetries in the decay B0 → K*0μ+μ- at the LHCb experiment U. Straumann,
N. Serra,
M. De Cian		 2012
C. Elsasser Determination of the invariant mass distribution for B0s → μ+μ- at the LHCb experiment U. Straumann,
O. Steinkamp		 2011
V. Hangartner Noise investigations for the Tracker Turicensis of the LHCb experiment (PDF, 1 MB) U. Straumann,
O. Steinkamp,
J. van Tilburg,
M. Tobin		 2009
N. Chiapolini Online monitoring for the Silicon Tracker of the LHCb experiment (PDF, 918 KB) U. Straumann,
O. Steinkamp,
J. van Tilburg,
M. Tobin		 2009
A. Büchler Thermal and mechanical characterization of the TT detector for the LHCb experiment U. Straumann,
F. Lehner		 2007
U. Bieler Contributions to noise in the data readout for Trigger Tracker in the LHCb experiment (PDF, 1 MB) U. Straumann,
A. Vollhardt,
J. Gassner		 2007
St. Heule Simulation und Messung von Silizium-Streifen-Detektoren U. Straumann,
F. Lehner		 2003
P. Cwetanski Studies on detector prototypes for the inner tracking system of LHCb U. Straumann 2000
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Bachelor theses

  Title Supervisor(s) Year
M. Al-Minawi

Numerical integreation of single variable functions using Tensorflow (PDF, 42 MB)

N. Serra

J. Eschle

 2022
M. Steiner Performance of univariate kernel density estimation methods in TensorFlow (PDF, 486 KB)

N. Serra

J. Eschle

 2022
A. Maraffio

Study of efficiencies of B-->Kπll at LHCb (PDF, 7 MB)

N. Serra

P. Owen

R. Coutinho

J. Eschle

 2022
C. Rohrbach Monte Carlo integration with TensorFlow for unbinned likelihood fits at LHCb (PDF, 469 KB)

N. Serra

J. Eschle

 2021
H. Kühnle

Angular Analysis of Baryonic Lb->Lcmunu Decay at LHCb (PDF, 15 MB)

N. Serra

P. Owen

A. Mathad

M. Ferrillo

 2021
A. Wyemeier

Comparison of Prediction Uncertainties Using Bayesian Neural Networks and Boosted Decision Tree Ensembles with B Decays (PDF, 5 MB)

N. Serra

R. Coutinho

P. Owen

J. Eschle

 2021
M. Adrover

A Test of Lepton Universality in B0 → K+π−(J/ψ → l+l−) decays (PDF, 1 MB)

N. Serra

R. Coutinho

P. Owen

J. Eschle

 2021
N. Baudis

A Test of Lepton Flavor Universality with B0 → K+π−l+l− Decays at LHCb (PDF, 4 MB)

N. Serra

R. Coutinho

P. Owen

J. Eschle

 2021

T. Neuer

 Using a feed forward neural network to identify Drell-Yan events at the LHCb experiment (PDF, 4 MB) N. Serra,
A. Weiden

2018
L. Ruosch Angular analysis of Z events at LHCb (PDF, 2 MB) N. Serra,
K. Müller,
A. Puig

2018
J. Eschle Studies of B+ → K+π+π-e+e- decays at LHCb N. Serra,
R. Silva Coutinho		 2017
A. Dätwyler Feasibility studies of the decay B0 → K*0(892) τ+τ- at LHCb N. Serra,
R. Silva Coutinho		 2016
C. Marentini Measurement of W production cross section in proton-lead collisions K. Müller 2014
M. Küng Suppression of excited onia states at the LHCb experiment (PDF, 2 MB) U. Straumann,
O. Steinkamp,
C. Elsasser		 2012
M. Tresch Extended measurements of charge sharing at the TT test stand (PDF, 22 MB) O. Steinkamp 2011
C. Elsasser Extension of the TT test stand with a pulsed focused infrared laser (PDF, 26 MB) O. Steinkamp 2009
G. Landolt Setting up an LHCb TT-detector test stand (PDF, 4 MB) O. Steinkamp,
A. Vollhardt		 2009
V. Hangartner LHCb TT module properties (PDF, 710 KB) O. Steinkamp 2007
N. Chiapolini The LHCb TT production database and an overview of quality characteristics of the detector modules (PDF, 1 MB) O. Steinkamp 2007

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Group Photo from the virtual retreat 2021