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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.






The 2024 LHCb Thesis Prizes were awarded on June 07th 2024 at the University of Glasgow. The committee comprised Johannes Albrecht, Miriam Calvo Gomez, Wenbin Qian, Patrick Robbe (deputy spokesperson) and Lesya Shchutska (chair).

- Shunan Zhang (Peking University(China)) : "Study of the CP violating phase γ at the LHCb experiment"

- Alessandro Scarabotto (Sorbonne University (France)) :"Search for rare four-body charm decays with electrons in the final state and long track reconstruction for the LHCb trigger"

- Sara Celani (EPFL (Switzerland)) :"Testing lepton flavour universality in B+→K+π+π−ℓ+ℓ− decays with LHCb"






The 2023 LHCb Thesis Prizes were awarded on June 07th 2023 at CERN. The committee comprised Fred Blanc, Jolanta Brodzicka, Chris Parkes (spokesperson), Vincent Tisserand and Stefania Vecchi (Chair).

- Saverio Mariani (Universita di Firenze (Italy)) : "Fixed-target physics with the LHCb experiment at CERN"

- Peter Svihra (University of Manchester (UK)) : "Developing a Silicon Pixel Detector for the Next Generation LHCb Experiment"






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”





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"





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"







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-Universitä
t Heidelberg ): “Search for new physics in rare four body charm decays at LHCb

- Jacco De Vries (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam): “Asymmetries in mixed beauty decays


 

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 D
0 → 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 B
c+ decays and quark flavor identification methods", and for significant contributions to the development of flavor tagging algorithms.


 

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/ψKp 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 D
0→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




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 B
s0 mesons", and for contributions to the Run 2 vertex finding algorithm