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| The LHCb Thesis Awards recognize excellent PhD theses and additional work done during the studentship, over and above the central thesis topic, that has made an exceptional contribution to LHCb. |
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| The 2022 LHCb Thesis Prizes were awarded on June 14th 2022 at CERN. The committee comprised Ulrik Egede (chair), Wouter Hulsbergen, Chris Parkes (spokesperson), Tomasz Skwarnicki and Stefania Vecchi. - Giulia Tuci (Universita di Pisa (Italy)) : "Searching for confirmation of charm CP violation in 𝐾𝑠0 final states at LHCb" - Guillaume Pietrzyk (EPFL (Switzerland)) : "Precision measurement of neutral charm meson mixing parameters" - Mengzhen Wang (Tsinghua University (China)) : “Amplitude analysis of the Λ𝑏0→𝐽/𝜓𝑝𝐾− decay and first observation of the Λ𝑏0→𝜂𝑐(1𝑆)𝑝𝐾− decay” |
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| The 2021 LHCb Thesis Prizes were awarded on
June 17th 2021 at CERN. The committee comprised Carla Göbel,
Katharina Müller (Chair), Antimo Palano, Chris Parkes
(Spokesperson) and Liming Zhang. - Tom Boettcher (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) : "The LHCb GPU high level trigger and measurements of neutral pion and photon production with the LHCb detector" - Dmitrii Pereima (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) : "search for new decays of beauty particles at the LHCb experiment" |
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| The 2020 LHCb Thesis Prizes were awarded on June 11th 2020 at CERN. The committee comprised Roger Barlow, Carla Göbel, Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer (chair), Katharina Müller, Giovanni Passaleva (Spokesperson), Gino Saitta. - Philippe D'Argent (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg ): “Probing the Standard Model flavor structure with hadronic beauty and charm decays” - Laurent Dufour (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen): "High Precision measurement of charge asymmetries in LHCb" |
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| The 2019 LHCb Thesis Prizes were awarded on June 21st 2019 at CERN. The committee comprised Eli Ben Haim, Stefanie Hansmann-Menzemer, Clara Matteuzzi, Giovanni Passaleva (Spokesperson),Tara Shears (Chair). - Carla Marin Benito (Universitat de Barcelona): "Pushing the boundaries of the LHCb rare decays program: search for the L0b → Lg decay" - Dominik Mitzel (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg ): “Search for new physics in rare four body charm decays at LHCb” - Jacco De Vries (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam): “Asymmetries in mixed beauty decays” |
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The 2018 LHCb Thesis Prizes were awarded on June 15th 2018 at CERN. The committee comprised Yuanning Gao, Stephane Monteil (Chair), Giovanni Passaleva (Spokesperson), Michael Schmelling, Tara Shears. - Tim Evans (University of Oxford) : "Studies of D0 → K∓ π± π± π∓ at Cleo-c and LHCb", and for significant contributions to the development and testing of the VELO upgrade. - Jack Wimberley (Maryland University) : "Semitauonic Bc+ decays and quark flavor identification methods", and for significant contributions to the development of flavor tagging algorithms. |
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| The 2017 thesis prizes were awarded on 16 June at CERN. The committee comprised Marta Calvi, Abraham Gallas, Hassan Jawahery (Chair), Stephane Monteil and Guy Wilkinson (spokesperson). - Nathan Jurik, Syracuse University, “Observation of J/ψ p resonances consistent with pentaquark states in ∧0b → J/ψK−p decays", and for significant contributions to the development and testing of readout electronics for the Upstream Tracker (UT) upgrade - Oliver Lupton, University of Oxford, "Studies of D0→K0sh+h'- decays at the LHCb experiment", and for significant contributions to the High Level Trigger (HLT) - Alex Pearce, University of Manchester, “Measurements of charm production and CP violation with the LHCb detector”, and for significant contributions to the detector monitoring, leadership roles in the Run 2 “early measurements” campaign and the LHCb Starterkit project |
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| The 2016 thesis prizes were awarded on 15 September at Santiago. The committee comprised Marta Calvi, Abraham Gallas, Hassan Jawahery, George Lafferty (Chair) and Guy Wilkinson (spokesperson). - Lucio Anderlini, University of Florence, "Measurement of the Bc+ Meson lifetime using Bc+ → J/ψμ+νμX decays with the LHCB detector at CERN", and for contributions to calibration of particle identification - Daniel Craik, University of Warwick, "A measurement of the CKM angle γ from studies of DKπ Dalitz plots", and for contributions to EvtGen and LAURA++ - Agnieszka Dziurda, Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN Krakow, "Studies of time dependent CP violation in charm decays of Bs0 mesons", and for contributions to the Run 2 vertex finding algorithm |
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