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Open Projects

The DESY CMS group offers several topics for bachelor, master and PhD theses in collaboration with a university (e.g. Hamburg University).
In addition, postdoctoral positions are available via the DESY fellowship program.
The group is actively participating in the CMS experiment at the LHC, in particular in construction and operation of detectors and the analysis of data related to Higgs physics, supersymmetry, top and QCD.
The combinations of physics analysis and detector operation or upgrade activity is possible and encouraged.

For more information on bachelor, master or PhD-theses as well as postdoctoral positions, please have a look at the following links:

Open Projects in Exotic Physics
Open Projects in Top Quark Physics
Open Projects in SUSY
Open Projects in Dark Matter & SUSY
Open Projects in Higgs Physics
Open Projects in HL-LHC Tracker
Open Projects in QCD
Open Projects in Proton Structure

Completed Thesis in 2025

Name	Title	Type	Date
Ventura Barroso, Ana	From detectors to data: Thermal Characterization of CMS Outer Tracker modules and Measurement of the top quark mass using tt+ jet events	PhD	03.02.2025
Schnake, Simon	Generating Calorimeter Showers as Point Clouds	PhD	31.01.2025
Cheng, Chun	Test Beam Studies of Prototype Module and Test Measurements of MaPSA for The CMS Outer Tracker Phase-2 Upgrade	PhD	29.01.2025
Scham, Moritz	Development of a Tree-Based Model for the Fast Generation of Large Point Clouds Representing Particle Showers in Calorimeters	PhD	17.01.2025
Mormile, Michele	Measurement of WZ production in association with 3rd generation quarks and constraints on anomalous couplings with CMS	PhD	10.01.2025

Completed Thesis in 2024

Name	Title	Type	Date
Wiens, Lucas	Search for dark matter using heavy object tagging and angular correlations with missing momentum with one electron or muon with Run 2 data of the CMS Experiment	PhD	20.12.2024
Weber, Tom (DASHH)	Constructing and Benchmarking Noise Models for Quantum Computing	PhD	19.12.2024
Parra Asensio, David	Jet Tagging mit Hilfe von Machine Learning	Bachelor	16.10.2024
Käch, Benno	Generative Modelling in High-Energy Physics	PhD	10.07.2024
Leyva Pernia, Daina	Search for BSM Higgs bosons in final states with b-quarks with the full Run 2 CMS dataset	PhD	02.07.2024
Yang, Yewon	Measurement of Charm Production in CMS and Total Charm Cross Section with Non-Universal Charm Fragmentation	PhD	27.06.2024
Mücke, Jonas	Jet performance of CMS to measure dijet angular distributions in LHC Run 3	Bachelor	30.05.2024
Colombina, Federica	First simultaneous measurement of single and pair production of top quarks in association with a Z boson at the LHC	PhD	13.05.2024
Bayat Makou, Maryam	Search for Higgs boson production in association with b-quarks in final states with leptons with machine learning techniques at CMS	PhD	26.04.2024
Puschmann, Finn	Reweighing Monte Carlo Simulations of Top Quark Pair Production with Deep Neural Networks	Bachelor	02.01.2024

Completed Thesis in 2023

Name	Title	Type	Date
Stafford, Dominic	Searching for Dark Matter produced in association with top quarks with the CMS experiment at the LHC	PhD	2023-12-19
Ribeiro Lopes, Beatriz	Differential ratio measurements of ttgamma/ttbar and a search for exclusive ttbar with the CMS experiment	PhD	2023-10-26
Sommer, Léonie	Qualification of Silicon Detectors for the Phase 2 Upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker	Master	2023-10-20
Lorkowski, Florian	Measurement and NNLO QCD analysis of jet production in deep inelastic scattering at ZEUS	PhD	2023-09-21
Mendizabal Morentin, Mikel	Z boson production in association with jets: measurement and phenomenology	PhD	2023-08-09
Otarid, Younes	Pixel-Strip Modules for the CMS Tracker Phase-2 Upgrade: From DAQ test system development to module assembly and qualification	PhD	2023-05-15
Rübenach, Jonas	Search for heavy Higgs bosons in conjunction with neural-network-driven reconstruction and upgrade of the Fast Beam Condition Monitor at the CMS experiment	PhD	2023-03-30
Giraldi, Angela	Measurement of the tt ̅H(bb ̅) process in the dilepton final state with machine learning techniques at the CMS experiment	PhD	2023-03-14
Wuchterl, Sebastian	Top quark pole mass from tt¯+jet using a machine learning based reconstruction for tt¯ kinematics	PhD	2023-02-10
Filatov, Oleg	Tau identification algorithms and study of the CP structure of the Yukawa coupling between the Higgs boson and tau leptons in CMS	PhD	2023-01-19
de Ligt, Kelvin	Effects of model parameter variations for the bbH→Za→llχχ process in the performance of multivariate classifiers	Master	2023-01-13
Meissner, John Erik	Elektrische Vermessung und Finite-Elemente-Simulation von Si-Dioden für BCM1F am CMS-Detektor	Bachelor	2023-01-09
Jürgens, Bela	Entwicklung und Aufbau eines automatisierten Interlocksystems mit Sensorik zum sicheren Betrieb eines Detektortestaufbaus für die Hochenergiephysik	Bachelor	2023-01-05

Completed Theses in 2022

Name	Title	Type	Date

Laudamus, Kevin	Studies of di-Higgs production at the FCC-hh in the HH -> bbZZ* -> bbllnunu channel	Master	2022-11-21
Brunner, David	Search for a charged Higgs boson in a single lepton and multi-jet final state	PhD	2022-11-02
Elhag, Hala Siddig Mohamed	Tagging of leptonically decaying boosted top quarks using machine learning	Master	2022-10-27
Chen, Ze	Tau reconstruction in CMS exploiting machine learning techniques	Master	2022-09-24
Maekelae, Toni	Towards global interpretation of LHC data: SM and EFT couplings from jet and top quark measurements at CMS	PhD	2022-09-14
Scheurer, Valerie	First measurement of the ¯t t production cross section in association with a Z boson decaying into a quark pair at the CMS Experiment	PhD	2022-09-13
Walter, David	First differential measurements of tZq production and luminosity determination using Z boson rates at the LHC	PhD	2022-09-09
Nigamova, Aliya	Measurement of Higgs boson production in association with a vector boson and decay to b-quarks in the Simplified Template Cross Section framework and interpretations with the Standard Model effective field theory	PhD	2022-09-07
Ramesh, Arathi	Search for a Type I Inverted Higgs Doublet Model	Master	2022-08-09
Petersen, Henriette	Measurements of differential cross sections for the production of top quark pairs in pp collisions at ps = 13 TeV with the CMS experiment	PhD	2022-06-24
Metwally, Josry	Double differential charm and beauty production cross section measurements at 5 TeV in CMS at the LHC	PhD	2022-06-23
Kaveh, Hessamoddin	Simplified template cross-section measurement for Higgs boson decay to b-quarks in association with a vector boson with the full Run 2 CMS dataset	PhD	2022-06-15
Yang, Heng	Measurement and phenomenology of azimuthal correlations in Z+jet events in CMS at the center of mass energy of 13 TeV	PhD	2022-05-27
Estévez Baños, Luis Ignacio	Measurement of multi-differential dijet cross sections in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV	PhD	2022-07-15
Jomhari, Nur Zulaiha	Measurement of Total and Differential Charm Cross Sections at 7 TeV with the CMS Detector	PhD	2022-03-16

Completed Theses in 2021

Name	Title	Type	Date
Sosa Ricardo, Rafael Eduardo	Measurement of multi-differential cross sections for the production of top quark pairs plus additional jets in pp collisions at vs = 13 TeV	PhD	2021-12-13
Kogler, Roman	The Coming of Age of Jet Substructure at the LHC – Algorithms, Measurements and Searches for New Physical Phenomena	Habilitation	2021-11-15
Lidrych, Jindrich	Measurement of the differential cross section of W and Z bosons in the boosted region in proton-proton collisions with the CMS experiment	PhD	2021-09-03
Tappeser, Charlotte	Suche nach Pseudoskalaren Dunkle-Materie-Mediator-Teilchen in Signaturen mit 2 b-Quarks, einem leptonisch zerfallenden Z-Boson und fehlender Transversalenergie	Bachelor	2021-08-31
Cardini, Andrea	Measurement of the CP properties of the Higgs boson in its decays to τ leptons with the CMS experiment	PhD	2021-08-17
Saibel, Andrej	Phenomenology of tt̄H Production with Top Quark Running Mass and the Differential Cross Section Measurement of tt̄ + b-jets Production in the Dilepton Channel at √s = 13 TeV with the CMS Experiment	PhD	2021-08-04
Meyer, Lina	Study of Interferences Between Resonant Heavy-Higgs-Boson Production and Top-Antitop-Quark Production in the Standard Model	Bachelor	2021-07-26
Asmuss, Paul	Search for high-mass bosons of an extended Higgs sector in b quark final states using the 2017 data set of the CMS experiment	PhD	2021-07-06
Mohamed, Ashraf	Search for Dark Matter with machine learning techniques in leptonic final states and missing transverse energy at the CMS Experiment	PhD	2021-03-04
Bayat Makou, Maryam	Optimizing the Machine Learning techniques in the H → ττ analysis with CMS data	Master	2021-02-04

Completed Theses in 2020

Name	Title	Type	Date
Baxter, Samuel	Search for Dark Higgs and for Heavy Higgs resonances in top-antitop quark pair production with the CMS Experiment	PhD	2020-11-19
Consuegra Rodríguez, Sandra	Search for light bosons in the final state with muons and tau leptons with CMS Run II data	PhD	2020-10-29
Colombina, Federica	Search for tZq in dilepton final states with Machine Learning techniques	Master	2020-10-16
Wening, Thomas	Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Density Function for the Photon	Master	2020-10-02
Ritter von Merkl, Karim	Application of machine learning in the kinematic reconstruction of t¯t events	Bachelor	2020-09-28
Knolle, Joscha	Measuring luminosity and the ttZ production cross section with the CMS experiment	PhD	2020-06-25
Danilov, Vladyslav	The measurement of W± boson charge asymmetry at √s = 13 TeV with the CMS detector using the 2015 data set and a global QCD analysis on this asymmetry	PhD	2020-05-29
Vagnerini, Antonio	Search for Higgs bosons in the final state with b-quarks in the semi-leptonic channel with the CMS 2017 data	PhD	2020-05-28
Pérez Adán, Danyer	Search for Light Bosons in Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson	PhD	2020-05-05
Defranchis, Matteo	First measurement of the running of the top quark mass	PhD	2020-04-30
Chaudhry, Nayab Majid	Precision metrology measurements for the CMS phase-2 Tracker upgrade	Bachelor Thesis	2020-02-11
Haranko, Mykyta	Development of the Read-Out System for the CMS Tracker for the HL-LHC	PhD	2020-01-09

Completed Theses 2008 - 2019

Anuar, Afiq	Top Quark Spin and Polarization Properties in Searches for New Phenomena with the CMS Detector at the LHC	PhD	2019-12-13
Singh, Akshansh	Search for supersymmetric particles in gluino-gluino pair production events at CMS	PhD	2019-12-09
Velyka, Anastasia	Concept and Development of Enhanced Lateral Drift (ELAD) Sensors	PhD	2019-10-21
Schmitz, Melanie Viola	Drell-Yan Production with Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Densities	Master Thesis	2019-10-07
Rübenach, Jonas	Confronting EFT with neural networks - Probing new paths for measuring dimension-6 operators in top-quark physics at LHC	Master Thesis	2019-09-16
Domínguez Damiani, Daniela	Cross Section measurements of t𝒕̅ pair production in the boosted regime in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider	PhD	2019-09-10
Babounikau, Illia	Search for supersymmetry with tau leptons in the CMS experiment	PhD	2019-08-12
Bermúdez Martínez, Armando	Measurement and phenomenology of azimuthal correlations in high transverse momentum multi-jet topologies in CMS at the center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV	PhD	2019-06-21
Pflitsch, Svenja	Associated Production of W + Charm in 13 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions Measured with CMS and Determination of the Strange Quark Content of the Proton	PhD	2019-06-20
Botta, Valeria	Measurement of the coupling strength of the Higgs boson to τ leptons with the CMS experiment at the LHC	PhD	2019-06-19
Schütze, Paul	Silicon Pixel Detectors - Performance after Irradiation and Application in Three-dimensional Imaging	PhD	2019-04-29
Wen, Yiwen	Tau Lepton: As a Tool for Hunting Standard Model and Beyond Standard Model Higgs	PhD	2019-02-25
Shevchenko, Rostyslav	Search for high mass Higgs bosons in the final state with b-quarks with the CMS 2016 data	PhD	2019-02-11
Eren, Engin	Determination of the Parton Distribution Functions and Strong Coupling by Using Measurement of Jet Cross Sections at ps = 13 TeV with the CMS detector with a combined QCD Analysis	PhD	2018-09-24
Arndt, Till	Precision measurement of the top-quark-pair cross section at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV	PhD	2018-07-05
Savitskyi, Mykola	Measurements of differential cross sections for t¯t production in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV using events containing two leptons with the CMS experiment	PhD	2018-06-18
Lelek, Aleksandra	Determination of TMD parton densities from HERA data and application to pp processes	PhD	2018-04-26
Connor, Patrick	Precision measurement of the inclusive b jet production in proton-proton collisions with the CMS experiment at the LHC at ps = 13 TeV	PhD	2018-03-28
Labe, Finn	Probing CP-Violation in Top-Higgs Interactions	Bachelor Thesis	2018-02-02
Grados Luyando, Juan M.	Charged particle spectra in different final states at s√=13 TeV with the CMS Experiment	PhD	2017-11-02
Rübenach, Jonas	Search for a heavy Higgs boson in the channel with four b quarks with the CMS experiment at the LHC	Bachelor Thesis	2017-10-26
Reichelt, Oskar	Plasma-Oberflächenbehandlung von CFK zur Verbesserung der adhäsiven Klebeigenschaften	Master Thesis	2017-05-23
Stefaniuk, Nazar	Measurement of the total and differential b cross sections at HERA and CMS tracker alignment at LHC	PhD	2017-05-08
Harb, Ali	Novel Trigger-Capable Modules for the Future CMS Tracking Detector and Inclusive Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section at √s = 13TeV	PhD	2017-04-17
Hempel, Maria	Development of a Novel Diamond Based Detector for Machine Induced Background and Luminosity Measurements	PhD	2017-04-06
Karacheban, Olena	Luminosity measurement at CMS published in the Springer Theses book series	PhD	2016-10-28
Dolinska, Ganna	Measurement of the Cross Sections of tt(bar) Production in the Boosted Regime with the CMS Detector at s√ = 8 TeV	PhD	2016-09-12
Lobanov, Artur	Search for gluino production in final states with an isolated lepton and b-tagged jets using 13TeV collisions at CMS	PhD	2016-07-11
Sahin, Mehmet Özgür	Search for Supersymmetric Top-Quark Partners Using Support Vector Machines and Upgrade of the Hadron Calorimeter Front-End Readout Control System at CMS	PhD	2016-07-05
Garay Garcia, Jasone	Search for Higgs-Boson Production in Associacion with Top-Quark Pairs in H→bb Decays at √s=8 and 13 TeV with the CMS Experiment	PhD	2016-06-15
Gizhko, Andrii	Measurement of beauty quark mass at HERA and impact on Higgs production in association with beauty quarks at LHC	PhD	2016-06-07
Karakaya, Tugba	Bit Error Rate Detection in High Energy Physics Experiments implemented on an FPGA	Bachelor Thesis	2016-09-03
Spannagel, Simon	Test Beam Measurements for the Upgrade of the CMS Pixel Detector and Measurement of the Top Quark Mass from Differential Cross Sections	PhD	2016-04-22
Korol, Ievgen	Measurement of Double Differential t¯t Production Cross Sections with the CMS Detector	PhD	2016-02-03
Kieseler, Jan	Measurement of Top-Quark Pair Production Cross Sections and Calibration of the Top-Quark Monte-Carlo Mass using LHC Run I Proton-Proton Collision Data at s√= 7 and 8 TeV with the CMS Experiment.	PhD	2015-12-14
Calligaris, Luigi	Search for a Heavy Neutral Higgs Boson decaying into Tau Pairs with the CMS Experiment at the LHC	PhD	2015-07-29
Mittag, Gregor (né Hellwig)	Search for a Light NMSSM Higgs Boson in the b-Quark Final State at the LHC	PhD	2015-07-20
Eichhorn, Thomas	Development of Silicon Detectors for the High Luminosity LHC	PhD	2015-07-08
Bartosik, Nazar	Associated top-quark-pair and b-jet production in the dilepton channel at √s = 8 TeV as test of QCD and background to tt+Higgs production	PhD	2015-07-03
Kraemer, Dario	Berechnung und Messung von Bauteilen mit unterschiedlichen Wärmeausdehnungskoeffizienten mittels Optical Deformation Measurement setup (ODM)	Bachelor Thesis	2015-06-22
Asin Cruz, Ivan	Measurement of Top-Quark-Pair Differential Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the CMS Experiment	PhD	2014-12-16
Gunnellini, Paolo	Study of double parton scattering using four-jet scenarios in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider published in the Springer Theses book series	PhD	2014-11-20
Dooling, Samantha Katherine	Differential Cross Section Measurement of Drell-Yan Production and associated Jets with the CMS Experi-ment at the LHC	PhD	2014-11-17
Costanza, Francesco	Search for Pair Production of Supersymmetric Top-Quark Partners in Events with a Single Lepton at CMS	PhD	2014-09-26
Pietsch, Niklas	Search for Supersymmetry in Final States with a Single Lepton, B-Quark Jets, and Missing Transverse Energy at the CMS Experiment	PhD	2014-09-18
Ihar Marfin	Search for additional Higgs bosons with multi b-quark final states at LHC	PhD	2014-07-07
Salfeld, Jakob	Search For The Higgs Boson Decaying Into τ - Leptons In The Di-Electron Channel	PhD	2014-06-16
Burgmeier, Armin	Position Resolution and Upgrade of the CMS Pixel Detector and Search for the Higgs Boson in the Ƭ+ Ƭ- Final State	PhD	2014-06-13
Cipriano, Pedro	Forward-Central Jet Correlations in pp Collision at CMS	PhD	2014-01-28
Schettler, Hannes	The Event-Mixing Technique for Modeling the tt Background in a Search for Supersymmetry in the Di-Lepton Channel	PhD	2013-08-20
Bethani, Agni	Neutral Higgs boson searches in the H−>ττ−>μμ decay channel	PhD	2013-07-05
Novgorodova, Olga	Characterisation and Application of Radiation Hard Sensors for LHC an ILC	PhD	2013-06-25
Behrenhoff, Wolf	Measurement of differential tt cross sections in the dilepton decay channels with the CMS detector at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy	PhD	2012-09-14
Stein, Matthias	Search for SUSY in Same-Sign Di-Lepton Events with the CMS Detector	PhD	2012-06-21
Hauk, Johannes	Measurement of Associated Z0-Boson and b-Jet Production in Proton-Proton Collisions with the CMS Experiment	PhD	2012-05-30
Kieseler, Jan	Measurement of the top-antitop and Z0-boson production cross sections and their ratio in the dileptonic decay channels at √s = 7 TeV with the CMS experiment	Diploma Thesis	2012-03-01
Sen, Niladri	Measurement of the Energy Flow at Large Pseudorapidities for √s = 0.9 TeV and √s = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider using the Compact Muon Solenoid	PhD	2011-10-24
Marienfeld, Markus	Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in the Muon-Electron Decay Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the CMS Experiment	PhD	2011-07-11
Dammann, Dirk	Production Cross Section Measurement of Top–Antitop Pairs in the Dimuon Decay Channel at √s = 7TeV with the CMS Experiment	PhD	2011-04-27
Flossdorf, Alexander	Higher Order QCD Radiation in Top Pair Production with the CMS Detector	PhD	2009-08-31
Rosemann, Christoph	Measurement of Top Quark Properties from Pair Production and Decay with the CMS Detector	PhD	2008-11-01
Hauk, Johannes	Validierung von Alignmentkonstanten des CMS-Spurdetektors mit kosmischen Myonen	Diploma Thesis	2008-07-11
Marienfeld, Markus	Untersuchung der Produktion von Ereignissen mit Top-Quarks am LHC	Diploma Thesis	2008-04-08
Hegner, Benedikt	Studies on Spin-Spin-Correlations in dileptonic tt-events at LHC	PhD	2008-02-01