LPHE PhD and Master theses

	PhD theses

	2016 *Towards the measurement of photon polarisation in the decay B⁺ → K⁺π^-π⁺ γ, Giovanni Veneziano - January 2016 (PDF file: 25.1 Mbytes) 2015* *Search for exotic massive long-lived particles decaying semileptonically in the LHCb detector, Bastien Muster - July 2015 (PDF file: 21.6 Mbytes) *Study of charmless B_(s)* meson decays involving η' and ϕ intermediate states at the LHCb experiment*, Jessica Prisciandaro - February 2015 (PDF file: 30.0 Mbytes) 2014 Search for (Higgs-like) bosons decaying into a pair of long-lived exotic particles in the LHCb experiment, Julien Rouvinet - July 2014 (PDF file: 16.0 Mbytes) Measurements of b-hadron lifetimes and the calibration and performance of the LHCb tracking system, Frédéric Dupertuis - June 2014 (PDF file: 8.0 Mbytes) Measurements of b-baryon properties at LHCb, Raphael Märki - May 2014 (PDF file: 2.0 Mbytes) 2013 GZK Neutrino Search with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory using New Cosmic Ray Background Rejection Methods, Shirit Cohen - October 2013 (PDF file: 5.1 Mbytes) Study of Exotic Mesons at the LHCb Experiment, Joël Bressieux - June 2013 (Detailed information) Recherche directe à LHCb du boson de Higgs en production associe et contribution au dveloppement du nouveau trajectographe à fibres scintillantes, Pierre Jaton - October 2013 (PDF file: 7 Mbytes) A search for heavy long-lived staus in the LHCb detector at √s=7 and 8 TeV, Thi Viet Nga LA - December 2013 (PDF file: 10.1 Mbytes) 2012 Development of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the Precise Measurement of the Cosmic Ray Positron Fraction with PEBS, Lesya Shchutska - Aug 2012 (PDF file: 20 Mbytes) SM Higgs boson searches in the weak bosons decay channels with the ATLAS detector, German Carrillo - Aug 2012 (PDF file: 20 Mbytes) Reconstruction of the Tau Lepton and the study of B⁰→D^-τ⁺ν_τ at LHCb*, Anne Keune - Jun 2012 (PDF file: 6.8 Mbytes) Measurements of B-meson lifetime ratios with the LHCb detector, Johan Luisier - Mar 2012 (PDF file: 4.6 Mbytes) Contribution to the measurement of the lifetime ratio of B_d(s)→D_(s)π,D_(s)→KKπ in LHCb, Vincent Fave - Jan 2012 (PDF file: 6 Mbytes) Study of B_S⁰-meson production and measurement of B_S⁰ decays into a D_S^()- and a light meson in e⁺e^- collisions at 10:87 GeV*, Rémi Louvot - Jan 2012 (PDF file: 11 Mbytes) 2011 Commissioning of the LHCb Inner Tracker and measurement of V⁰-particle production in pp collisions at 0.9 TeV, Mathias Knecht - Jul 2011 (PDF file: 4.1 Mbytes) Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying into Long-Lived Exotic Particles in the LHCb Experiment, Neal Gauvin - May 2011 (PDF file: 16.4 Mbytes) 2010 LHCb detector momentum calibration with the first year data and a performance study of CP violation measurement with the B_S⁰ → J/ψφ decays, Géraldine Conti - Oct 2010 (PDF file: 122 Mbytes) Direct Search for Standard Model-Like Higgs Boson and Software Integration of Data Acquisition Cards, Cédric Potterat - Apr 2010 (PDF file: 12.5 Mbytes) Construction of the Inner Tracker and Sensitivity to the B_s⁰→μμ Decay at LHCb, Marc-Olivier Bettler - Apr 2010 (PDF file: 27.4 Mbytes) 2009 Alignment of the LHCb Tracking Stations and Selection of X(3872) and Z(4430)^± in pp Collisions at 14 TeV, Louis Nicolas - Nov 2009 (PDF file: 7.6 Mbytes) RADIATION PROTECTION STUDIES FOR CERN LINAC4/SPL ACCELERATOR COMPLEX, Egidio Mauro - Sep 2009 (PDF file: 10.6 Mbytes) Breast Texture Synthesis and Estimation of the Role of the Anatomy and Tumor Shape in the Radiological Detection Process: from Digital Mammography to Breast Tomosynthesis , Cyril Castella - Mar 2009 (PDF file: 5.4 Mbytes) Study of the B &rarr X(3872)K &rarr D⁰D⁰K Decay at Belle* , Nicolas Zwahlen - Mar 2009 (PDF file: 4.3 Mbytes) 2008 A Study of Beam-Beam Effects in Hadron Colliders with a Large Number of Bunches , Tatiana Pieloni - Dec 2008 (PDF file: 19.2 Mbytes) Contribution to the Inner Tracker Design and Penguin Sensitivity Studies for the Measurement of sin 2&beta in LHCb , Aurélie Perrin - Nov 2008 (PDF file: 11.4 Mbytes) Measurement of the CP-odd Fraction and Time-Dependent CP Violation in the Decay B⁰ → D⁺D^- at Belle , Kim Vervink - Sep 2008 (PDF file: 229 Mbytes) The analog readout of the LHCb vertex detector and study of the measurement of the B_s oscillation frequency, Jérémie Borel - Jun 2008 (PDF file: 3.5 Mbytes) Study of the radiative penguin B⁰_s → ϕ γ and B⁰_s → γ γ decays and the resonant B⁺ → K⁺ γ γ decays at Belle , Jean Wicht - Apr 2008 (PDF file: 12 Mbytes) 2007 Direct search for Higgs boson in LHCb and contribution to the development of the Vertex Detector , Laurent Locatelli - Oct 2007 (PDF file: 5.5 Mbytes) B⁰_s → J/ψ(μ⁺ μ^-) η'(π⁺ π^-η(γγ)) decays and sensitivity to the B⁰_s mixing phase at LHCb, Sergio. Jiménez Otero - May 2007 (PDF file: 3.5 Mbytes) Measurement of the rare radiative B meson decays B → ϕ K γ and B → ω K γ at the BELLE experiment and contribution to software development at the LHCb experiment. , Christian Jacoby - Feb 2007 (GZ PS file:44.1 Mbytes) (PS file:96.7 Mbytes) 2006 Optics Design and Performance of an Ultra-Low Emittance Damping Ring for the Compact Linear Collider, Maxim Korostelev - Nov 02. 2006 (PDF file: 5.8 Mbytes) Contribution to the Development of the LHCb acquisition electronics and Study of polarized radiative Λ_b decays, Federica Legger - Sept 22. 2006 (PDF file: 5.5 Mbytes) D?voloppement d'un module de d?tection phoswich LSO/LuYAP pour le prototype de cam?ra ? positrons ClearPET, Jean-Baptiste Mosset - Jul 28. 2006 (PDF file: 4.0 Mbytes) Exclusive Trigger Selections and Sensitivity to the Bs--Bsbar Mixing Phase at LHCb, Luis Fernández - Aug 25. 2006 (PDF file: 5.7M bytes) 2005 Accuracy of the Transverse Emittance Measurements of the CERN Large Hadron Collider, Federico Roncarolo - Nov 21 2005 (PDF file: 3.5 Mbytes) B⁰_s → J/ψ η Decays and Sensitivity to the B⁰_s Mixing Phase at LHCb, Benjamin Carron - Nov 18 2005 (PDF file: 22.7 Mbytes) 2004 Contribution to the development of the acquisition electronics for the LHCb experiment, Guido Haefeli - Aug 20 2004 (PDF file: 6.1 Mbytes) 2003 Determination of the Flavour of Beauty Mesons in LHCb and Contribution to the development of the LHCb Vertex Locator, Olivier Dormond - Dec 22 2003 (PS file: 19 Mbytes, PDF file: 5.2 Mbytes) B⁰ - anti-B⁰ mixing measurement at Belle using dilepton events tagged with a soft pion, Frédéric Ronga - Nov 21 2003 (8.27 Mbytes) Production de charme dans la mer ?trange du nucl?on dans le calorim?tre frontal de l'exp?rience NOMAD, Hubert Degaudenzi - Jul 11 2003 (8.4 Mbytes) Bunch Frequency Multiplication by RF Injection Into An Isochronous Ring, Philippe Royer - Feb 7 2003 (19 Mbytes) Contribution to the Development of the LHCb Vertex Locator Readout Electronics, Iouri Ermoline - Jan 17 2003 (1.9 Mbytes) 2002 A study of soft computing methods with illustrative applications in segmenting MR imaging and detecting trackless rings for RICH detectors , Anna-Maria Massone - June 28 2002 (1.7 Mbytes) Design of a high-perveance electron gun for electron cooling in the Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) at CERN and Non-interceptive proton beam profile monitors using ion or atomic probe beams, Christina Dimopoulou - May 03 2002 (19.6 Mbytes) Contribution to the Development of the LHCb Vertex Locator and Study of Rare Semileptonic Decays, Patrick Koppenburg - Mar 15 2002 (PDF file: 6.1 Mbytes) 2001 Direct search for Higgs boson in LHCb, Charles Currat - Jul 25 2001 (4.01 Mbytes) Recherche de la violation CP dans les désintegrations d'hypérons Xi-/anti-Xi+ et +Lambda/anti-Lambda, N.Leros - Jun 29 2001 (1.69 Mbytes) A luminosity monitor for LHC, Anne-Laure Perrot - Jun 01 2001 (1.06 Mbytes) Production de particules charmées D+ dans les interactions de neutrino auprès de l'expérience NOMAD*, Frédéric Juget - (1.8 Mbytes) 1998 Production des particules neutres ?tranges et mesure de la polarisation du Lambda dans l'exp?rience NOMAD, Kamal Benslama - December 1998 (1.8 Mbytes) Production de quarks charm?s et d?termination de la mer ?trange de quarks dans l'exp?rience NOMAD, Jean-Marc Vieira - June 1998 (1.5 Mbytes) Sections efficaces de production de gammas directs dans les interactions p^--p et p-p à 24.3 GeV et le couplage fort a_s, Nguyen Mau Chung - June 1998 (1.6 Mbytes) Etude de la production des pi⁰ dans les diffusions in?lastiques de neutrinos, Martine Steininger-Denor?az - Avril 1998 1997 Determination of the Electroweak Parameter sin2qW in the e+ e- t+ t- (g) Process Using the L3 Detector at LEP, Yong Mi - October 1997 (1.8 Mbytes) Older LPHE/IPN theses (1956-1996)**

	Master theses

	2017 *Study of the B⁺ → K⁺π^-π⁺γ selection at LHCb, Cindy Mordasini - December 2017 (PDF file: 2.3 Mbytes) Searching for new physics in c → u transitions, Marko Stamenkovic - December 2017 (PDF file: 3.2 Mbytes) *Study of B⁰_s → D^()-_s μ⁺ ν_μ decays at the LHCb experiment*, Lino Ferreira Lopes - February 2017 (PDF file: 4.8 Mbytes) Search for CP violation in the angular distributions of D⁰ → K⁺K^-π⁺π^-, Guillaume Pietrzyk - February 2017 (PDF file: 4.2 Mbytes) 2016 Search for the B⁰_s → D⁺ K^- decay at LHCb, Matthieu Marinangeli - March 2016 (PDF file: 7.6 Mbytes) Charm mixing and CP violation in D⁰ → K⁰_s K⁺ K^-., Marco Valente - January 2016 (PDF file: 8.9 Mbytes) 2015 Calibration of the kaon charge detection asymmetry in the LHCb experiment and measurement of the B^± → J/ψ K^± charge asymmetry, Chloé Py - July 2015 (PDF file: 1.7 Mbytes) Search for Λ_b⁰ → Λ⁰γ* at LHCb*, Aurélie Flandi - June 2015 (PDF file: 3.0 Mbytes) Search for B_s⁰ → φφγ* at LHCb*, Violaine Bellee - February 2015 (PDF file: 1.7 Mbytes) 2014 Radiation exposure from imaging guidance using the ExacTrac imagery system estimated by PCXMC software, Kathleen Smith - August 2014 (PDF file: 4.7 Mbytes) Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions BR(B_c⁺ → J/ψπ⁺π^-π⁺) / BR(B_c⁺ → J/ψπ⁺) , Thibaud Humair - July 2014 (PDF file: 1.5 Mbytes) Characterisation of silicon photo multiplier arrays for the LHCb Scintillating Fibre Tracker Upgrade , Axel Kuonen - June 2014 (PDF file: 13.4 Mbytes) Optimisation and validation of the cooling design and read-out electronics for the LHC Beam Gas Vertex detector modules , Olivier Girard - June 2014 (PDF file: 9.8 Mbytes) Feasibility study of the measurement of the direct CP asymmetry in D⁰→φγ , Maxime Schubiger - January 2014 (PDF file: 3.4 Mbytes) Study for a high precision measurement of the ratio of B_s⁰ and B⁰ lifetimes , Brice Maurin - January 2014 (PDF file: 3.3 Mbytes) Photon polarization sensitivity in B_s⁰→φγ decays at LHCb, Eleonie van Schreven - January 2014 (PDF file: 1 Mbyte) 2013 Signal modelling and verification with a cosmic ray telescope for a scintillating fibre tracker in the context of the LHCb upgrade Nicloas Durussel - May 2013 (PDF file: 3.4 Mbytes) EPID-based Measurement of Transit Portal Dose Distributions in Radiotherapy, Jenny Bertholet - August 2013 (PDF file: 18.4 Mbytes) Proton rejection of the ECAL for the PEBS experiment, Quentin Veyrat - May 2013 (PDF file: 1 Mbyte) Can a Higgs decay to four bottom quarks be observed at LHCb?, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul - March 2013 (PDF file: 2.8 Mbytes) Observation of the decay B⁺→π⁺π^-K⁺γ at LHCb, Isaure Leboucq - Febriary 2013 (PDF file: 2.2 Mbytes) 2012 Branching fractions and charge asymmetry in B⁺→η'K⁺ decays at LHCb, Annabelle Chuinard - June 2012 (PDF file: 7.8 Mbytes) Measurement of the B⁺ lifetime, Michel Di Salvo - June 2012 (PDF file: 4.1 Mbytes) Measurement of the lifetimes of the Ξ^-_b and Ω^-_b baryons, Marc-Philippe Aouad - June 2012 (PDF file: 3 Mbytes) Characterization of a modular design for a Cherenkov telescope camera, Sébastien Chappius - June 2012 (PDF file: 3.5 Mbytes) Measurement of the Λ_b lifetime, Quentin Python - January 2012 (PDF file: 1.1 Mbytes) 2011 Study of angular distribution for B⁰→φK^0 decays at LHCb*, Laureline Josset - Juillet 2011 (PDF file: 5 Mbytes) Study of angular distributions in τ production and decay at LHCb, Léonie Berge - Juillet 2011 (PDF file: 1.6 Mbytes) Novel Search Methodology for Supernovae with IceCube, Marco Salathe - Février 2011 (PDF file: 4.5 Mbytes) A study for lifetime measurements of B mesons at LHCb, Bastien Muster - Février 2011 (PDF file: 11.8 Mbytes) 2010 Study selections of Λ_c⁺→pK^-π⁺ channel at LHCb, Laurent Perrinjaquet - Janvier 2010 (PDF file: 2.9 Mbytes) Λ reconstruction and selection efficiency study at LHCb, Raphael Märki - Janvier 2010 (PDF file: 1.0 Mbytes) Searching for Higgs decays to four bottom quarks at LHCb, Julien Rouvinet - Janvier 2010 (PDF file: 2.9 Mbytes)(TALK PDF file: 3.6 Mbytes) Etude de la désintégration semi-leptonique du neutralino dans l'expérience LHCb, Robin Nichele - Janvier 2010 (PDF file: 1.0 Mbytes) Inclusive Branching Fraction Measurement of B→D_s^±X and Search for Direct CP Violation in B→D_s^()D^() at Belle, Frédéric Dupertuis - Janvier 2010 (PDF file: 0.9 Mbytes) 2009 Identification des Charginos par leur énergie déposée dans le détecteur VELO de LHCb, La Thi Viet Nga - Juin 2009 (PDF file: 5.6 Mbytes) Caractérisation de photodétecteurs et simulation de barres scintillantes dans le cadre de l'expérience PEBS, Martin Girard - Juin 2009 (PDF file: 4.2 Mbytes) Performance checks and comparison of &psi'→J/&psi&pi⁺&pi^- and &psi'→&rho&pi branching ratios in the BES-III experiment , Charles Dietz - Spring 2009 (PDF file: 3.7 Mbytes) Characterization of an Acoustic Detection Device, (Bachelor's Thesis), Matthäus Podgorski - June 2009 (PDF file: 5.1 Mbytes) Recherche d'une particule SuperSymétrique à LHCb avec violation de la R-parité : le neutralino, Pierre Jaton - Mar 2009 (PS file: 0.8 Mbytes) Study of neutralino annihilations in the galactic halo and detection of positrons with the PEBS experiment, Alexis Barrière - Mar 2009 (PDF file: 1.5 Mbytes) Testing and comparison of muon energy estimators for the IceCube neutrino observatory, Joel Bressieux - Mar 2009 (PDF file: 6.3 Mbytes) 2008 Study of the Decay B_s → D_s π and Search for B_s → D_s K in e⁺e^- Annihilation at √s ∼ 10.87 GeV with the Belle Detector, Remi Louvot - Jan 2008 (PS file: 8.6 Mbytes) 2007 Study for CP-violation in the J/ψ → Λ Λ decay, Vincent Hirschi - Jul 2007 (PDF file: 0.6 Mbytes) Study for CP-violation in the Ψ' → π⁺ π^- J/Ψ , Vincent Fave - Jul 2007 (PDF file: 0.4 Mbytes) Analysis of the First Cosmic Ray Data Collected with the Complete ALICE TPC, Philippe Gros - Feb 2007 (PDF file: 2.6 Mbytes) Alignment of the Silicon tracker of the CMS experiment using cosmic muons , Nicolas Hadengue - Feb 2007 (PDF file: 10.2 Mbytes) Searching for a Supersymmetric Higgs Boson through displaced Decay Vertices in LHCb , Neal Gueissaz - Feb 2007 (PS file: 8.1 Mbytes) Etude de faisabilit? et impl?mentation d'un trigger ? di-?lectron pour le HLT de LHCb , Johan Luisier - Feb 2007 (PDF file: 5.5 Mbytes) 2006 Contribution ? l'?tude de la ligne analogique du d?tecteur VeLo dans le cadre de l'exp?rience LHCb , Samuel De Laere - Feb 23 2006 (PDF file: 1.3 Mbytes) 2005 Etude de la d?sint?gration B --> K omega gamma avec le d?tecteur Belle, C?dric Potterat - Feb 25 2005 (PDF file: 1.2 Mbytes, ps.gz file: 1.1 Mbytes, PDF file of the public presentation: 2.2 Mbytes) Selection and study of the B⁰_s --> D^-_s pi⁺ decay at LHCb , Louis Nicolas - Feb 25 2005 (PDF file: 1.1 Mbytes, PDF file of the public presentation: 1.3 Mbytes) Caract?risation de l'indice de r?fraction du radiateur aerogel du d?tecteur RICH de l'exp?rience LHCb, Carlos Filipe Da Silva Costa - Feb 18 2005 (PDF file: 23 Mbytes) 2004 Etude d'un type de refroidissement des d?tecteurs "Inner Tracker" de l'exp?rience LHCb , Aur?lie Giacomin - Mar 09 2004 (ps-file 3.1 Mbytes, PDF-file 2.7 Mbytes) Contribution to the study of the analog link for the LHCb solid state detector (VeLo), Jeremie Borel - Mar 09 2004 (1.47 Mbytes) Caract?risation de la d?sint?gration B -> K gamma gamma et perspectives pour une mesure avec le d?tecteur Belle, Jean Wicht - Jan 09 2004 (0.5 Mbytes) 2003 Etude de la s?lection inclusive de d?sint?grations B-> X_mu l nu dans l'exp?rience Belle, E. Eckard - Mar 15 2003 (738 kbytes) Mod?lisation d'un module phoswich LSO/LuYAP pour le tomographe ? positons ClearPET avec le programme de simulation GATE, M. Rey - Mar 15 2003 (3.6 Mbytes) 2002 Flavour tagging of neutral B mesons at the LHCb detector, C. Jacoby (see IPHE note 2002-007 for simplified and revised version) - Feb 22 2002 (0.84 Mbytes) 2001 Prospects of measuring gluon fusion and weak boson fusion cross sections at the LHC with CMS, Anne-Sylvie Nicollerat - Mar 07 2001 (0.42 Mbytes) Etude d'un détecteur de traces à gaz, à amplification multiple, utilisant le système GEM, Didier Livet - Mar 02 01 (0.4 Mbytes) 2000 Etude de l'étiquetage des jets beaux dans l'expérience LHCb, Benjamin Carron - Mar 08 2000 (0.73 Mbytes) Etude du bruit de fond affectant la recherche des événements dimuons produits dans le calorimètre avant de l'expérience NOMAD, Gersende Prior - Feb 01 2000 (1.13 Mbytes) 1998 Identification du boson de Higgs au sein de l'expérience LHCb , Olivier Dormond - Apr 2 1998 (438 Kbytes) Sensibilité de l'expérience LHCb au paramétre Dm_s de l'oscillation B_s⁰- B_s⁰bar, Frédéric Ronga - March 23 1998 (350 Kbytes) 1997 Etude de la résolution spatiale d'une chaîne opto-électronique pour un télescope Tcherenkov, Claude Beyeler - Jun 01 1997 (0.94 Mbytes) Reconstruction d'événements B0->Pi+Pi- à partir de minivecteurs dans un détecteur de vertex à microcapillaires, Patrick Koppenburg - Apr 01 1997 (1.04 Mbytes) Détermination de l'efficacité de reconstruction des Lambdas dans les réctions à courant chargé des neutrinos de l'expérience NOMAD**, Céline Donche Gay - Feb 01 1997 (1.05 Mbytes)