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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 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 tHeidelberg ): “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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